You build a great software product. You offer it as a service. Your business grows. Clients demand new features. Load is increasing on your service. Clients start to rely more and more on your service and expect a good quality of service. You realize that to grow and be successful…

You need to implement a new feature. You research and select suitable technologies and approaches. You start coding. The required functionality is implemented. You can run and demo the feature locally on your computer. Is that it? Is the feature done? Can you deploy it in production? …

You build a great product. You offer it as a service. You define quality and performance Service Level Agreements (SLA) for your clients. And now you need to operate it. To ensure when things break, issues are fixed as quickly as possible. To ensure that your service is properly scaled…

You build a great product. You offer it as a service. You define quality and performance Service Level Agreements (SLA) for your clients. You deploy monitoring. And now you want to define alerting. To choose relevant metrics. To establish thresholds. …

You build a great product. You offer it as a service. Your business grows. Your IT systems grow with it. Recurrent problems start appearing. Things that cannot be solved easily or cost-effectively from application code. Corner cases. Programing language limitations. Life happens. What do you do? You deploy alerting. You…

You build a great product. You offer it as a service. You define quality and performance Service Level Agreements (SLA) for your clients. You deploy monitoring to track Service Level Indicators to ensure you fulfill your SLA. And now you want to create monitoring dashboards. To visualize the metrics you…

You build a great product. You offer it as a service. You define quality and performance Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for your clients. And now comes the moment for defining your monitoring strategy. What metrics should you collect from your system? From where? At what cadence? Strategy 1: Yeah, monitoring…

You build a great product. You offer it as a service. You define quality and performance Service Level Agreements (SLA) for your clients. You define Service Level Objectives (SLO) and Service Level Indicators (SLI) to ensure you fulfill your SLAs. You deploy monitoring. You deploy automation. And now comes the…

The degree of automation required to run a production system is influenced by many factors, such as its scale, domain, or client requirements. As the system’s scale or complexity grow, operating it becomes more challenging. Things which used to almost never happen become a daily occurrence. If a transaction fails…