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Stories, guides, and lessons from the world of observability

SLOs eased

SLOs eased

You can either love running or hate running, but you will definitely love this analogy - take a fresh look at SLOs!

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Piyush Verma

Piyush Verma

Saurabh Hirani

Saurabh Hirani

Latency SLO

Latency SLO

How do you set latency-based alerts? A common approach is 95% of requests completed in 350ms, but is it really that simple?

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Piyush Verma

Piyush Verma

Deeper Dive into SLO: Effects on Development, Culture and Performance

SLOs: Impact on Development, Culture, and Performance

Thanks to Service Level Objectives (SLOs), your teams have a numerical threshold for system availability, so everyone has a clear vision of what keeps the users and the business happy.

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Akshat Goyal

Akshat Goyal

Monorepos - The Good, Bad, and Ugly

Monorepos - The Good, Bad, and Ugly

Explore the pros and cons of monorepos, including their benefits, challenges, and potential pitfalls for managing large codebases.

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Prathamesh Sonpatki

Prathamesh Sonpatki

Components in Designing Effective SLOs

Components in Designing Effective SLOs

A primer on how to design and implement effective Serice Level Objectives(SLOs)

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Akshat Goyal

Akshat Goyal

Strace – A Hidden Superpower

Strace – A Hidden Superpower

Like any OS, Linux isn’t immune to hiccups, especially when running closed-source apps where you can’t inspect the code for deeper insights.

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Akshat Goyal

Akshat Goyal

Prathamesh Sonpatki

Prathamesh Sonpatki

Saturation SLO: What It Is and Why You Should Consider It

Saturation SLO: What It Is and Why You Should Consider It

What is Saturation and why should you think about it as an SLO? Saturation can be understood as the load on your network and server resources.

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Akshat Goyal

Akshat Goyal

Sleep Friendly Alerting

Sleep Friendly Alerting

We've all been woken up with that dreaded Slack notification at ungodly hours only to realise that the alert was all smoke and no fire. The perfect recipe for dread and alert fatigue.

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Akshat Goyal

Akshat Goyal

Services; not Server

Services; not Server

Gone are the days of yore when we named are our servers Etsy, Betsy, and Momo, fed them fish, and cleaned their poop.

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Nishant Modak

Nishant Modak

Piyush Verma

Piyush Verma