The article discusses the process of improving the monitoring system at Riskified. The team identified pain points and goals, including bottleneck on changes in the monorepo, crashing Prometheus, inability to silence alerts easily, and removing hardcoded secrets in Alertmanager config. They consid..

This article discusses sharding in Prometheus, a technique used to distribute the load of collecting metrics across multiple instances. The article describes a problem where the number of metrics being scraped was growing non-linearly, causing increased memory and CPU costs. The root cause was iden..

Andrew Ng, cofounder and head of Google Brain and former Chief Scientist at Baidu has published a free course:ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers. - Learn how to use large language models like OpenAI's GPT to quickly build powerful applications in this short course. - Discover the principles o..