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Thanos vs. VictoriaMetrics
A deep dive comparison between Thanos and VictoriaMetrics: Performance and Differences
1979, a nuclear accident and SRE
Deep diving into the 'Normal accident' theory by Charles Perrow, and what it means for SREs
Ingest OpenTelemetry metrics with Prometheus natively
Native support for OpenTelemetry metrics in Prometheus
How we tame high cardinality in time series databases
Engineering innovation to solve high cardinality with Levitate - a multi-part series
OpenTelemetry for dummies: ELI5
What is OpenTelemetry? Why is it important? Do SREs need to adopt OTel? An Explain It Like I'm 5.
InfluxDB vs. Thanos
InfluxDB vs Thanos: Overview, Pros and Cons, and Differences
What Site Reliability Engineering Needs: A Swarm of Bees
If all companies are software companies, all companies need better Observability to understand how performative their software is
Prometheus vs. VictoriaMetrics (VM)
Comparing Prometheus vs. VictoriaMetrics (VM) - Scalability, Performance, Integrations
Prometheus vs. Cortex
Comparing Prometheus vs. Cortex - Scalability, Cost, Performance, Known Weaknesses