Hivekit developed an in-process storage engine that saves 98% in cloud costs by replacing AWS Aurora with a $200/month EBS volume. The system, built for high write performance and small disk size, stores each 34-byte location update in a delta-based binary format, allowing for 30 million updates per.. read more  

Encore builds tools for developing distributed systems and event-driven applications. This interactive blog post explores various queueing strategies, including FIFO, LIFO, priority queues, and priority queues with active queue management (AQM). It highlights the trade-offs of different queue types .. read more  

Cloudflare recently migrated their logging pipeline from syslog-ng to OpenTelemetry Collector to improve scalability and ease of contributions from their team. They developed internal components such as cfjs1exporter and fileexporter to support their unique logging format and requirements. The migra.. read more  

Created for developers looking to back up their Git repositories to S3, git-backup is an open-source tool that meets specific criteria: uploading snapshots to S3, storing in a standard format, customizable retention policies, and open source. With two commands - snapshot and prune - git-backup simpl.. read more  

A technical guide to logging at each cluster layer with a focus on AuditPolicy is provided. Logging in Kubernetes clusters can be done at the application, container, cluster, and cloud levels, with different types of logs serving specific purposes. AuditPolicy, which generates audit logs, is importa.. read more  

Explore various API monitoring approaches and find the right API monitoring tool through step-by-step guidance... read more  

S3 is weirder than you think. Make sure you know all the quirks before they turn into vulnerabilities in your AWS infrastructure... read more  

The Spring 2024 issue of the Enterprise Technology Leadership Journal explores the transformative potential of integrating Industrial DevOps principles with digital twin technology. This integration streamlines development processes, improves quality, and reduces time-to-market by creating a seamles.. read more  

A colleague shared an article on logging levels, emphasizing the importance of a shared understanding among developers to prevent severity inflation. The recommended logging levels are ERROR, WARN, INFO, and DEBUG, each serving a specific purpose in production and development environments. It's cruc.. read more  

Success in DevOps and SRE hinges on effective monitoring through metrics frameworks like R.E.D., U.S.E., and the "Four Golden Signals." R.E.D. focuses on Request rate, Error rate, and Duration. U.S.E. centers on Utilization, Saturation, and Errors. The "Four Golden Signals" highlight Latency, Traffi.. read more