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Why MTTR should be a ‘business’ metric
A key challenge is aligning engineering health metrics with business goals. How can business measure engineering, and engineering show its value?
Observability - That Last 9
TL;DR: A stitch in time, saves 9. A discussion on the key blocks of observability.
How we won Dukaan over
5 meetings. 1 month. Subhash and his team’s velocity on decision-making, moving fast, and radical candor, are a breath of fresh air in the Indian startup ecosystem.
Sample vs Metrics vs Cardinality
When dealing with Time Series databases, I always got confused with Sample vs Metrics vs Cardinality. Here’s an explanation as I have understood it.
How to calculate HTTP content-length metrics on cli
A simple guide to crunch numbers for understanding overall HTTP content length metrics.
Last9 completes SOC II Type 2 Certification
The comprehensive audit validates Last9 as a trusted SRE partner; a crucial process to work with highly regulated industries.
Comparing Popular Time Series Databases
A comparison of all the popular time series databases. Prometheus, Influx, M3Db, Levitate.
Reliability Tools
A guide through the most popular DevOps and SRE tools for building your reliability stack.
Latency is the new downtime
In the early days of Google, a lot of users were asking for 30 results on the first page of search results. So after long deliberation, Marissa Mayer, then the Product Manager for google.com, decided to run the A/B test for ten vs 30 results. When the results came in, they were in for a surprise.
