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Unwiring High Cardinality - SRE Day 2023

Unwiring High Cardinality - SRE Day 2023

Report from SRE Day 2023, where Piyush Verma - CTO Last9, gave a talk on Unwiring High Cardinality

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OpenTelemetry for dummies: ELI5

OpenTelemetry for dummies: ELI5

What is OpenTelemetry? Why is it important? Do SREs need to adopt OTel? An Explain It Like I'm 5.

Mohan Dutt Parashar

What Site Reliability Engineering Needs: A Swarm of 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

Aniket Rao

Take back control of your Monitoring

Take back control of your Monitoring

Take back control of your Monitoring with Levitate - a managed time series data warehouse

Nishant Modak

SRECon APAC 2023 Recap

SRECon APAC 2023 Recap

Recap of SRECon APAC 2023 in Singapore

Aniket Rao

QCon New York 2023 Recap

QCon New York 2023 Recap

Recap of QCon New York 2023 Conference

Prathamesh Sonpatki

SRE vs Platform Engineering

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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SRE vs DevOps

SRE vs DevOps

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

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Understanding “Cricket Scale”

Understanding “Cricket Scale”

How does a DevOps/Site Reliability Engineer plan for "Cricket scale"? How do you warm systems' about to witness 30+ million concurrent users?

Aniket Rao

What is MTBI?

What is MTBI?

Everything you need to know about Mean Time Between Incidents (MTBI) and how it can help Site Reliability Engineers

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Reliability Engineering for Dummies: ELI5

Reliability Engineering for Dummies: ELI5

Explaining Reliability Engineering to a 5-year-old.

Mohan Dutt Parashar

SLA vs SLO vs SLI - What's the difference

SLA vs SLO vs SLI - What's the difference

SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs—what’s the difference? For DevOps folks, understanding these nuances is key. Here's a quick guide to each term.

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Introducing Levitate: Uplift Your Metrics Management

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

Self-managed Prometheus vs Managed Prometheus

Self-managed Prometheus vs Managed Prometheus

What are the differences between Self-managed Prometheus vs Managed prometheus? How do you choose what works for you?

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Prometheus vs InfluxDB

Prometheus vs InfluxDB

What are the differences between Prometheus and InfluxDB - use cases, challenges, advantages and how you should go about choosing the right tsdb

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India vs Pakistan: SRE and the Shannon Limit

India vs Pakistan: SRE and the Shannon Limit

How does one ‘detect change’ in a complex infrastructure, so you don’t lose out on critical revenues — A short SRE story

Satyajeet Jadhav

Battling Alert Fatigue

Battling Alert Fatigue

What is Alert Fatigue and techniques to reduce it

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Kubernetes Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana

Kubernetes Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana

A guide to help you implement Prometheus and Grafana in your Kubernetes cluster

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Why MTTR should be a ‘business’ metric

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?

Sidu Ponnappa

Observability - That Last 9

Observability - That Last 9

TL;DR: A stitch in time, saves 9. A discussion on the key blocks of observability.

Akash Saxena

How we won Dukaan over

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.

Aniket Rao

Sample vs Metrics vs Cardinality

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.

Piyush Verma

Last9 completes SOC II Type 2 Certification

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.

Abhi Puranam

We’ve raised a $11M Series A led by Sequoia Capital India!

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

Best Practices for Postmortems: A guide

Best Practices for Postmortems: A guide

The ins and outs of conducting an effective postmortem. Ready templates and examples from leading organizations around the world!

Prathamesh Sonpatki

Choosing Effective SLIs

Choosing Effective SLIs

Practical advice to choose an effective SLI.

Akshay Chugh

Running a Database on EC2 is Slowing It Down

Running a Database on EC2 is Slowing It Down

Learn everything about the advantages of EC2, it's use cases and how to optimize EC2 further.

Jayesh Bapu Ahire, Akshay Chugh

Deployment Readiness Checklists

Deployment Readiness Checklists

A ready checklist of a comprehensive list of steps and activities involved in the deployment of your application.

Prathamesh Sonpatki

Doing SRE the Right Way!

Doing SRE the Right Way!

A well-thought-out approach to SRE, which will help site reliability engineers and software engineers develop and maintain a useful, consistent, and effective SRE strategy for their products!

Piyush Verma

Getting the big picture with Log Analysis

Getting the big picture with Log Analysis

How to get the most out of your logs!

Jayesh Bapu Ahire

Microservices - Tracking Dependencies

Microservices - Tracking Dependencies

Quick primer into microservices architecture and the importance of tracking dependencies

Akshay Chugh, Jayesh Bapu Ahire

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.

Nishant Modak, Piyush Verma

Systems Observability

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