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SRE vs Platform Engineering

What's the difference between SREs and Platform Engineers? How do they differ in their daily tasks?

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Last9
Comparing Prometheus and Datadog

Prometheus vs Datadog

Comparison between Prometheus and Datadog - two of the most popular monitoring tools in the market today

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Last9
Using a Golang package in Python using Gopy

Using a Golang package in Python using Gopy

Using Golang package in Python using Gopy: A simple way to leverage the power of Golang packages in Python applications.

Arjun Mahishi
Arjun Mahishi
What's the difference between SREs and DevOps?

SRE vs DevOps: Definition, Key Differences, and Similarities

What's the difference between SREs and DevOps professionals? How do they differ in their daily tasks?

Last9
Last9

Filtering Metrics by Labels in OpenTelemetry Collector

How to filter metrics by labels using OpenTelemetry Collector

Prathamesh Sonpatki
Prathamesh Sonpatki
Who should define Reliability —  Engineering, or Product

Who should define Reliability — Engineering, or Product?

Whoever owns Reliability should define its parameters. But who owns the Reliability of a Product? Engineering? Product Management? Or the Customer success team?

Piyush Verma
Piyush Verma
What do self-driving cars tell us about Site Reliability Engineering?

What do self-driving cars tell us about Site Reliability Engineering?

From Robocars to Reliability — SRE with self-driving cars; mapping out where the Observability space is in conjunction with self-driving cars

Mohan Dutt Parashar
Mohan Dutt Parashar
OSS vs Paid vs Managed OSS — Picking what works for your Observability journey

Observability—OSS vs Paid vs Managed OSS

The Reliability industry needs a managed, non-vendor lock-in answer to spiraling costs, high cardinality and the toil of managing a tsdb

Satyajeet Jadhav
Satyajeet Jadhav
Learnings integrating jmxtrans with Levitate

Learnings integrating jmxtrans

JMX metrics give solid insights into the workings of your application. Integrating them with Levitate (our time series data warehosue) required us to jump some hoops with vmagent.

Saurabh Hirani
Saurabh Hirani