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Software Observability from the Lens of Radar and a Black Box
Observability is often a misunderstood and misused term. It has come to mean nothing and everything at this point. Read more on how Observability can be viewed from the lens of a Radar and a Black Box.
Nishant Modak
Understanding the Rasmussen model for failures
What does the Rasmussen model teach us about Site Reliability Engineering?
Nishant Modak
Take back control of your Monitoring
Take back control of your Monitoring with Levitate - a managed time series data warehouse
Nishant Modak
The neglected tech arctic winter — Internal SaaS expenses
The current tech winter reveals a hard truth: spending on internal tools for tech infrastructure is bloated—and this isn't just a passing cycle.
Nishant Modak
Introducing Levitate: Uplift Your Metrics Management
Managing time series databases is hard. We've evolved to services, yet monitoring lags. Our solution powers critical workloads at a lower cost.
Nishant Modak
Why We Auto-Delete Slack Messages at Last9
At Last9, we auto-delete Slack DMs after 2 days. This pushes teams to improve documentation, reduce tribal knowledge, and own accountability.
Nishant Modak
We’ve raised a $11M Series A led by Sequoia Capital India!
Exciting news! We've secured an $11M Series A funding round led by Sequoia Capital India to fuel our growth and innovation at Last9!
Nishant Modak
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.
Nishant Modak, Piyush Verma
Systems Observability
Observability is not just about being able to ask questions to your systems. It's also about getting those answers in minutes and not hours.
Nishant Modak, Piyush Verma