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Do you know about the Network Operation Center (#NOC)? It's a central location where IT infrastructure is monitored, managed, and maintained, ensuring systems and services are available and performing optimally. The NOC staff uses monitoring tools to track performance, identify and resolve issues qu..
This blog post talks about the challenges of managing SLOs (Service Level Objectives) and error budgets for SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) teams. It introduces Squadcast SLO Tracker as a solution to simplify this process.
Here are the key points:
SLOs and error budgets are important for maintaining service reliability.
Challenges include scattered data sources, false positives, and limited visibility.
Squadcast SLO Tracker offers a centralized location for managing SLOs and error budgets.
Key features include easy integration, reduced false positives, and improved alerting.
Squadcast also allows for tracking incident metrics and provides a unified platform for SLO and incident response.
This blog post explores distributed tracing, a technique for gaining deep insights into microservices architectures. It explains why traditional monitoring struggles with complex systems and how distributed tracing provides end-to-end visibility. The benefits include simplified debugging, performance optimization, and faster incident resolution.
The blog details how distributed tracing works with concepts like traces, spans, and context propagation. It also highlights observability tools like Jaeger, Zipkin, Datadog, and Dynatrace. Finally, it provides best practices for successful implementation, including end-to-end instrumentation, focus on SRE golden signals, standardization, and documentation.
In essence, the blog offers a comprehensive guide to leveraging distributed tracing for enhanced observability in microservices architectures.
Pgvectorscale, a new PostgreSQL extension, offers advanced indexing techniques for vector data. It improves approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) query performance by implementing the DiskANN algorithm, which allows SSD storage, and introducing SBQ (statistical binary quantization) for better accuracy... read more
eBPF allows reprogramming the Linux kernel to trace system calls, user space functions, and network packets efficiently. Programs are written in high-level languages, compiled into bytecode, and loaded into the kernel. This approach avoids modifying kernel source code and reduces overhead, making it.. read more
A Sev0 incident is the most severe, demanding immediate attention and involving many people, including executives, legal teams, and customer support. High pressure, uncertainty, and external scrutiny are common. Effective handling requires flexibility, clear communication, and managing subgroups eff.. read more
This hands-on guide covers deploying Jenkins on Kubernetes, configuring Kubernetes as Jenkins agents, running a sample pipeline on a k8s Pod Jenkins agent, and monitoring the Pod life cycle for a pipeline run. It is designed for a PoC or Pilot environment to explore Jenkins and Kubernetes features. .. read more
At Meta, Bento allows engineers to mix code, text, and multimedia in a single document, from simple prototyping to complex machine learning workflows. To speed up lite workloads, Meta built infrastructure that enables code execution directly in the browser using Pyodide on WebAssembly. With a focus .. read more
Details on a critical security flaw in PHP, tracked as CVE-2024-4577, have been disclosed, allowing for remote code execution on Windows systems. Vulnerable PHP versions have been fixed in updates 8.3.8, 8.2.20, and 8.1.29. Exploitation attempts have been detected, urging users to apply patches quic.. read more
The 2024 European Parliament election saw significant internet traffic drops and spikes in various regions. Central Europe experienced the highest declines, particularly in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, while Estonia saw the highest peak increase at 35%. Notable announcements in Belgium and Franc.. read more
