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Is “vendor owned open source” an oxymoron?

Update: the post was updated to elaborate on open core licenses and on the licenses used by Redis Labs, Timescale and Cockroach Labs Open source is eating the world. Companies have realized and embraced that, and ever more companies today are built around a successful open source project. But there’s…

Open Source Software

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Is “vendor owned open source” an oxymoron?
Is “vendor owned open source” an oxymoron?
Open Source Software

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Feb 24

Celebrating Israel’s First Kubernetes Community Days: A Look at the History of Our CNCF Community

This post was published on CNCF blog. After over 30 community meetups of CNCF’s Israeli chapter in the past years, it’s time we had a full-day event for the community! Welcome Israel’s first Kubernetes Community Days (KCD), coming 23–03–23 (an auspicious date 🙂). …

Cloud Native

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Celebrating Israel’s First Kubernetes Community Days: A Look at the History of Our CNCF Community
Celebrating Israel’s First Kubernetes Community Days: A Look at the History of Our CNCF Community
Cloud Native

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Feb 19

How Much Observability Is Enough?

Driving observability in the company in a measured and pragmatic way — This article was originally published at The New Stack. In a popular episode of OpenObservability Talks podcast, host Dotan Horovits, Logz.io’s principal technology evangelist, was joined by guest Jujhar Singh, at the time global DevSecOps practice lead at The Economist and currently a lead DevOps and infrastructure consultant at Thoughtworks…

DevOps

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How Much Observability Is Enough?
How Much Observability Is Enough?
DevOps

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Jan 26

Unreadable Metrics: Why You Can’t Find Anything in Your Monitoring Dashboards

A Guide to Effective Dashboard Design for DevOps and SRE — The previous posts were about Phantom Metrics and Expensive Metrics. On this post we’ll look at Unreadable Metrics and how to design effective dashboards. Dashboards are powerful tools for monitoring and troubleshooting your system. Too often, however, we run into an incident, jump to the dashboard, just to find ourselves…

DevOps

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Unreadable Metrics: Why You Can’t Find Anything in Your Monitoring Dashboards
Unreadable Metrics: Why You Can’t Find Anything in Your Monitoring Dashboards
DevOps

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Jan 10

Expensive Metrics: Why Your Monitoring Data and Bill Get Out Of Hand

The previous post was about Phantom Metrics: Why Your Monitoring Dashboard May Be Lying to You. On this post we’ll look at Expensive Metrics and how our bill quickly gets out of control. We all collect logs, metrics, traces, and possibly other telemetry data. Yet, this can get expensive pretty…

DevOps

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Expensive Metrics: Why Your Monitoring Data and Bill Get Out Of Hand
Expensive Metrics: Why Your Monitoring Data and Bill Get Out Of Hand
DevOps

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Dec 26, 2022

Prometheus Roadmap and Latest Updates

TL;DR Key updates: Prometheus Agent for lightweight scrape-and-forward to external backends Many new Service Discovery mechanisms, also without a sidecar Native Histrograms and Examplars support in the database PromLens query builder tool is now part of Prometheus PromQL new functions (e.g. sign, trigo.), negative offset support Prometheus UI move to React, query auto-completion…

Prometheus Monitoring

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Prometheus  Roadmap and Latest Updates
Prometheus  Roadmap and Latest Updates
Prometheus Monitoring

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Dec 11, 2022

Phantom Metrics: Why Your Monitoring Dashboard May Be Lying to You

Whether you’re a DevOps, SRE, or just a data driven individual, you’re probably addicted to dashboards and metrics. We look at our metrics to see how our system is doing, whether on the infrastructure, the application or the business level. We trust our metrics to show us the status of…

DevOps

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Phantom Metrics: Why Your Monitoring Dashboard May Be Lying to You
Phantom Metrics: Why Your Monitoring Dashboard May Be Lying to You
DevOps

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Nov 12, 2022

Cracking Performance Issues in Microservices with Distributed Tracing

Microservices architecture is the new norm for building products these days. An application made up of hundreds of independent services enables teams to work independently and accelerate development. However, such highly distributed applications are also harder to monitor. When hundreds of services are traversed to satisfy a single request, it…

Distributed Tracing

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Cracking Performance Issues in Microservices with Distributed Tracing
Cracking Performance Issues in Microservices with Distributed Tracing
Distributed Tracing

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Oct 23, 2022

Platform Engineering: DevOps evolution or a fancy rename?

Everyone’s talking about Platform Engineering these days. Even Gartner recently featured it in its Hype Cycle for Software Engineering 2022. But what is Platform Engineering really about? Is it the next stage in the evolution of DevOps? Is it just a fancy rebrand for DevOps or SRE? As a veteran…

DevOps

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Platform Engineering: DevOps evolution or a fancy rename?
Platform Engineering: DevOps evolution or a fancy rename?
DevOps

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Sep 5, 2022

Improving DevOps Performance with DORA Metrics

Everyone in the software industry is in a race to become more agile. We all want to improve the performance of our software development lifecycle (SDLC). But how do you actually do that? If you want to improve your performance, first determine what KPI you’d like to improve. DORA metrics…

DevOps

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Improving DevOps Performance with DORA Metrics
Improving DevOps Performance with DORA Metrics
DevOps

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Dotan Horovits

Dotan Horovits

327 Followers

Technology evangelist, innovation enthusiast, Startup Nation resident, proud father. https://twitter.com/horovits http://linkedin.com/in/horovits/

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