Monitoring and Observability

So far in this series we have reviewed a few popular and emerging models and frameworks. These tools are meant to help you make sense of where you are and how…

The word “innovation” has come to mean various things. For many, it draws up images of great modern innovators. For developers, it’s the driving force behind a day’s work. It’s…

You know how the saying goes—you can’t optimize what you can’t measure, and you can’t measure what you can’t monitor. Perhaps this isn’t a time-tested proverb just yet, but it…

What Should We Be Monitoring? To effectively begin getting a grasp on your applications performance, you must begin mapping out all the components in the path of your application. It…

In my previous posts, I talked about the basics of AI in relation to network and systems management as well as why I love it. This post isn’t going to…

Unless your user is actually experiencing a service or website as it’s meant to be experienced, it doesn’t matter if your monitoring tool says it’s up or down. These are…

My wife called me for the third time, and I could hear that she was working hard to remain calm but was undeniably at the end of her rope. She…

Ask a good server engineer where their server configuration is defined and the answer will likely be something similar to In my Puppet manifests. Ask a network administrator the same thing about…

In my last post, I mentioned one of the basic use cases for Artificial Intelligence (AI) in a modern network. AI can be utilized to not only bridge the informational…

Is our contribution measured by what we’re doing or how we’re doing it? Are we providing value or are we just getting caught up in what’s exciting? How do we…