Reliability

Reliability and availability are crucial concepts in DevOps. Here's a simple breakdown to help you understand their key differences and importance.

Unpacking "Cricket Scale" with the person behind the scenes at JioCinema

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.

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

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

This article covers questions such as what are MTTF, MTBF, MTTD, and MTTR, their differences, how to adopt them, and their use cases.

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.

Managing time series databases is hard. We've evolved to services, yet monitoring lags. Our solution powers critical workloads at a lower cost.

In reliability engineering, three concepts keep getting talked about - DevOps, SRE and Platform Engineering. How do they differ?

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

What is Alert Fatigue and techniques to reduce it

A key challenge is aligning engineering health metrics with business goals. How can business measure engineering, and engineering show its value?

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.

A guide through the most popular DevOps and SRE tools for building your reliability stack.

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

Practical advice to choose an effective SLI.

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

SRECon, hosted by USENIX, focuses on site reliability and systems engineering at scale. Discover highlights from the most interesting talks at SRECon 2021.

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!

How to get the most out of your logs!

Quick primer into microservices architecture and the importance of tracking dependencies

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