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Stories, guides, and lessons from the world of observability

A case for Observability outside engineering teams

A case for Observability outside engineering teams

Observability is being built by engineers for engineers. In reality, o11y is for all.

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Aniket Rao

Aniket Rao

Understanding the Rasmussen model for failures

Understanding the Rasmussen model for failures

What does the Rasmussen model teach us about Site Reliability Engineering?

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Nishant Modak

Nishant Modak

How we tame High Cardinality by Sharding a stream

How we tame High Cardinality by Sharding a stream

Using 'Sharding' to tame High Cardinality data for Last9 - Our Time Series Data Warehouse

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Piyush Verma

Piyush Verma

Thanos vs. VictoriaMetrics

Thanos vs. VictoriaMetrics

A deep dive comparison between Thanos and VictoriaMetrics: Performance and Differences

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Last9

Last9

1979, a nuclear accident and SRE

1979, a nuclear accident and SRE

Deep diving into the 'Normal accident' theory by Charles Perrow, and what it means for SREs

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Aniket Rao

Aniket Rao

OTLP metrics ingestion support in Prometheus

Ingest OpenTelemetry metrics with Prometheus natively

Native support for OpenTelemetry metrics in Prometheus

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Prathamesh Sonpatki

Prathamesh Sonpatki

How we tame high cardinality in time series databases: Part 1

How we tame high cardinality in time series databases

Engineering innovation to solve high cardinality with Last9 - a multi-part series

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Piyush Verma

Piyush Verma

Swati Modi

Swati Modi

InfluxDB vs. Thanos

InfluxDB vs. Thanos

InfluxDB vs Thanos: Overview, Pros and Cons, and Differences

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Prathamesh Sonpatki

Prathamesh Sonpatki

What Site Reliability Engineering needs — A swarm of rogue bees

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

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Aniket Rao

Aniket Rao