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Top 5 Firebase Alternatives for 2024: Best Picks

Top 5 Firebase Alternatives for 2024: Best Picks

Explore the top 5 Firebase alternatives for 2024, offering flexibility, scalability, and ease of use to meet your app development needs.

Anjali Udasi

The Best Heroku Alternatives for Developers in 2024

The Best Heroku Alternatives for Developers in 2024

Discover the top Heroku alternatives in 2024 with options for scalability, pricing, and flexibility to suit your development needs.

Anjali Udasi

The Best Linux Monitoring Tools for 2024

The Best Linux Monitoring Tools for 2024

Discover the top Linux monitoring tools for 2024 to optimize performance, prevent downtime, and keep your systems running smoothly.

Anjali Udasi

Datadog vs Dynatrace: A Comprehensive Comparison

Datadog vs Dynatrace: A Comprehensive Comparison

Compare Datadog and Dynatrace to find the right observability solution for your team, balancing flexibility, scalability, and automation.

Anjali Udasi

Fluentd vs Fluent Bit – A Comprehensive Overview

Fluentd vs Fluent Bit – A Comprehensive Overview

Fluentd vs Fluent Bit: Discover the key differences, use cases, and how to choose the right tool for your log processing needs.

Prathamesh Sonpatki, Anjali Udasi

Top 5 Open Source SIEM Tools for Security Monitoring

Top 5 Open Source SIEM Tools for Security Monitoring

Explore open-source SIEM tools to enhance your security monitoring. Learn about features, deployment, and how they compare to commercial solutions.

Anjali Udasi

Filebeat vs Logstash: Key Differences for Your Logging Needs

Filebeat vs Logstash: Key Differences for Your Logging Needs

Explore the key differences between Filebeat and Logstash to choose the right tool for your logging setup and optimize performance.

Anjali Udasi

Kibana vs Grafana: Key Differences and Use Cases

Kibana vs Grafana: Key Differences and Use Cases

Kibana and Grafana offer unique strengths: Kibana excels in log analysis, while Grafana shines in time-series data and infrastructure monitoring.

Anjali Udasi

Extracting Account-Level CDN Metrics from Akamai Logs with Last9

Extracting Account-Level CDN Metrics from Akamai Logs with Last9

Learn how to extract and analyze account-level CDN metrics from Akamai logs using Last9 for real-time insights and better customer tracking.

Prathamesh Sonpatki, Aditya Godbole

AWS Monitoring Tools to Optimize Cloud Performance

AWS Monitoring Tools to Optimize Cloud Performance

Learn how AWS monitoring tools like CloudWatch, X-Ray, and others can help boost your cloud performance and make everything run smoothly.

Anjali Udasi

OpenSearch vs. Elasticsearch: What’s the Real Difference?

OpenSearch vs. Elasticsearch: What’s the Real Difference?

OpenSearch and Elasticsearch are both powerful search engines, but OpenSearch offers an open-source alternative with community-driven development.

Anjali Udasi

Datadog vs. Grafana: Finding Your Ideal Monitoring Tool

Datadog vs. Grafana: Finding Your Ideal Monitoring Tool

Discover the key differences between Datadog and Grafana to find the ideal monitoring tool that fits your needs and budget.

Anjali Udasi

8 Datadog Alternatives Worth Considering in 2024

8 Datadog Alternatives Worth Considering in 2024

Explore eight options for different monitoring needs and budgets. Whether for microservices or APM, these alternatives enhance observability affordably.

Anjali Udasi

Top 10 Platform Engineering Tools in 2024

Top 10 Platform Engineering Tools in 2024

Check out these 10 tools that are making a real difference in how teams build, manage, and scale their platforms in 2024.

Prathamesh Sonpatki

A Deep Dive into Log Aggregation Tools

A Deep Dive into Log Aggregation Tools

The guide discusses the essential components, challenges, popular tools, and advanced techniques that define effective log aggregation.

Anjali Udasi

What do self-driving cars tell us about Site Reliability Engineering?

What do self-driving cars tell us about Site Reliability Engineering?

From Robocars to Reliability — SRE with self-driving cars; mapping out where the Observability space is in conjunction with self-driving cars

Mohan Dutt Parashar

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

Reliability Engineering for Dummies: ELI5

Reliability Engineering for Dummies: ELI5

Explaining Reliability Engineering to a 5-year-old.

Mohan Dutt Parashar

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?

Last9

Battling Alert Fatigue

Battling Alert Fatigue

What is Alert Fatigue and techniques to reduce it

Last9

How to calculate HTTP content-length metrics on cli

How to calculate HTTP content-length metrics on cli

A simple guide to crunch numbers for understanding overall HTTP content length metrics.

Saurabh Hirani

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

The origin of Service Level Objectives

The origin of Service Level Objectives

Service Level Objectives (SLOs) dominate the software industry, but where did they come from?

Akshay Chugh, Piyush Verma

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.

Akshat Goyal, Prathamesh Sonpatki

Infrastructure-As-Code-As-Software

Infrastructure-As-Code-As-Software

Explore how Infrastructure-as-Code-as-Software combines coding practices with automation to streamline infrastructure management and enhance scalability.

Piyush Verma