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NetOps for Application Developers: Understanding the Importance of Network Operations in Modern Development

Kentik

As these applications scale, and engineering for reliability comes into the forefront, DevOps engineers begin to rely on networking concepts like load balancing, auto-scaling, traffic management, and network security.

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Observability versus monitoring in software development

CircleCI

“Observability” and “monitoring” are two words that can perplex even experienced software engineers. New developers coming into a software engineering or operations role can find it challenging to understand the difference between observability and monitoring. As software has evolved, so has observability.

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Our DevOps Toolbox: The Consul Interview

Exadel

Recently, Michael Shklyar, a DevOps Software Engineer from the Exadel Digital Transformation Practice, recently sat down with Alexey Korzhov , a DevOps specialist from one of our client projects, to discuss Consul, it’s advantages, and how it helps him solve issues. We can even choose metrics for monitoring containers. .

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Sponsored Post: Etleap, PerfOps, InMemory.Net, Triplebyte, Stream, Scalyr

High Scalability

Triplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. For heads of IT/Engineering responsible for building an analytics infrastructure , Etleap is an ETL solution for creating perfect data pipelines from day one. Who's Hiring?

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Performing Automated Canary Analysis Across a Diverse Set of Cloud Platforms with Kayenta and Spinnaker

LaunchDarkly

Matt Duftler, Senior Software Engineer at Google, and Michael Graff, Senior Software Engineer at Netflix, gave a talk about automated canary deployments. “So And it supports like an extensible set of metric services and judges and cloud platforms and everything else. Hopefully you’re publishing metrics.

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 1: The Path to VP

Honeycomb

While Charity has deep experience in the domains of infrastructure & operations, databases, and backend engineering, I come originally from design, frontend, and product engineering, and I take a particular joy in collaborating with product management and ux design.

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Honeycomb vs Elastic Stack: It’s about priorities

Honeycomb

To do that, you’ll have to load balance Logstash, deploy multiple parallel data nodes in Elastic, install and run something like Apache Kafka to avoid data loss if your traffic is bursty…and this will all be your responsiblity. ” – Michael Garski, Director of Software Engineering at Fender.