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Reduce 60% of your Logging Volume, and Save 40% of your Logging Costs with Lightrun Log Optimizer
As organizations are adopting more of the FinOps foundation practices and trying to optimize their cloud-computing costs, engineering…
The Complete Kubectl Cheat Sheet [PDF download]
Kubernetes is one of the most well-known open-source systems for automating and scaling containerized applications. Usually, you declare…
Debugging Node.js HTTP Requests
HTTP is the backbone of all API-centric, modern web apps. APIs are the place where the core business…
Top 10 Logging Frameworks Across Various Programming Platforms
Logging is an essential part of coding guidelines for any software development project. From humble beginnings as console print messages and file logging libraries for basic debuggability, logging frameworks have now evolved into full-scale platforms offering a variety of advanced features
The SRE’s Quick Guide to Kubectl Logs
Logs are key to monitoring the performance of your applications. Kubernetes offers a command line tool for interacting…
Top 5 Debugging Tips for Kubernetes DaemonSet
Kubernetes is the most popular container orchestration tool for cloud-based web development. According to Statista, more than 50%…
Migrating Monoliths to Microservices in Practice
There have been amazing articles on the subjects of migrating from a monolith to a microservice architecture e.g.…
Debugging a Wordle Bug
I have a confession: I'm addicted to Wordle. Especially now that it's out of style and people don't…
The Essential List of Spring Boot Annotations and Their Use Cases
The Spring framework is a robust server-side framework for modern Java-based enterprise applications. Since its introduction in 2003,…
Top 8 Database Version Control Tools
Many DevOps teams struggle to achieve consistent builds and releases due to ineffective collaboration and communication strategies. Over…
Top 12 Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Tools
Ben Treynor Sloss, then VP of Engineering at Google, coined the term "Site Reliability Engineering" in 2003. Site…
Shift Left Testing: 6 Essentials for Successful Implementation
Testing can evoke polarized reactions from developers. Some love it. Some prefer never to hear of such a…
The Cost of Production Blindness
When I speak at conferences, I often fall back to the fact that just a couple of decades…
It’s Really not that Complicated.
You can actually understand what’s going on inside your live applications.