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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

6 min read


5 days ago

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

A Guide to Effective Dashboard Design — 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…

Dev Ops

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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
Dev Ops

8 min read


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…

Dev Ops

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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
Dev Ops

6 min read


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…

Dev Ops

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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
Dev Ops

7 min read


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…

Dev Ops

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

6 min read


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…

Dev Ops

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Improving DevOps Performance with DORA Metrics
Improving DevOps Performance with DORA Metrics
Dev Ops

5 min read


Aug 8, 2022

HTTP‘s New Method For Data APIs: HTTP QUERY

In our data driven world, everything is an API. Most of these APIs are RESTful APIs, running atop the good-old HTTP protocol. Funny enough, however, the protocol hasn’t changed all that much to adapt to our data driven world. HTTP was originally built for fetching resources for web page rendering…

API

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HTTP‘s New Method For Data APIs: HTTP QUERY
HTTP‘s New Method For Data APIs: HTTP QUERY
API

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Jul 6, 2022

Continuous Profiling: A New Observability Signal

We’ve all grown used to logs, metrics and traces serving as the “three pillars of observability.” And indeed they are very important telemetry signals. But are they indeed the sum of the observability game? Not at all. …

Dev Ops

6 min read

Continuous Profiling: A New Observability Signal
Continuous Profiling: A New Observability Signal
Dev Ops

6 min read

Dotan Horovits

Dotan Horovits

303 Followers

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

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