Blog: Cloud, SRE, Kubernetes & Observability
17 articles on OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes, system design, incident management and reliability.
Microservices vs Monoliths: Making the Right Choice
The choice between a monolithic and a microservices architecture is one of the most critical decisions a software engineering team faces. It impacts everything from development velocity and team structure to operational
On-Call Best Practices: Preventing Burnout
The relentless hum of production systems, the constant vigilance required to maintain their health, and the inevitable late-night pages are an inherent part of the modern software engineering landscape. For Site Reliabil
Capacity Planning in the Cloud Era
In the dynamic landscape of cloud computing, managing infrastructure effectively is less about static provisioning and more about intelligent, adaptive resource orchestration. Capacity planning, once a periodic, often te
Incident Management: Post-Mortem Culture That Works
The world of complex distributed systems is inherently unpredictable. Despite our best efforts in design, testing, and deployment, incidents are not a question of “if,” but “when.” For Site Reliability Engineers, Softwar
Observability vs Monitoring: Understanding the Difference
In the rapidly evolving landscape of distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native architectures, the terms “observability” and “monitoring” are often used interchangeably, leading to confusion and, more criticall
Chaos Engineering in Production: A Practical Guide
We’ve all been there. It’s 3 AM, and the pagers are screaming. A critical service is down, customers are impacted, and the on-call team is scrambling through logs and dashboards, trying to piece together a puzzle in the
Navigating Cloud FinOps: Tools and Strategies for Financial Efficiency
Introduction In the ever-evolving landscape of technology, organizations are constantly searching for ways to optimize their operations and enhance financial efficiency. The advent of cloud computing has brought unparall
System Design – A feature-rich Rate Limiter system
Introduction A Rate limiter service is a system that would help control the rate of requests hitting the end application to which the request is being sent out. A rate limiter could be as simple as DDoS attack protection
A Comprehensive Guide to Trace Sampling Strategies in Distributed Tracing
Introduction In the dynamic world of distributed systems, gaining insights into application performance often relies on effective trace sampling strategies. Distributed tracing provides a holistic view of transactions ac
A Comprehensive Guide to Chaos Testing Tools for Kubernetes
Introduction In the intricate world of Kubernetes, ensuring the resilience of applications is paramount. The need for Chaos Testing tools arises from the inherent complexities and uncertainties in distributed systems. In
Unveiling the Power of OpenTelemetry Operator: Simplifying Observability in Kubernetes
Introduction In the ever-evolving landscape of cloud-native applications, observability is paramount for understanding and optimizing system performance. OpenTelemetry Operator emerges as a key player in this realm, seam
Exploring the Power of Observability with OpenTelemetry Collector
Introduction In today’s fast-paced and dynamic digital landscape, ensuring the performance and reliability of software applications is paramount. Enter OpenTelemetry Collector, a powerful tool designed to enhance observa
Monitoring NGINX Ingress Controller using Open-source tools
In my previous articles, I covered how to setup NGINX Ingress controller and a fully functional Prometheus & Grafana stack in Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service). In this article, we will leverage the knowledge from
Setup Kubernetes cluster monitoring the easy way
Monitoring is the key to meeting the SLO for any production deployments. With Kubernetes Cluster taking over a lot of production deployment workload these days, there has been a lot of development in the monitoring space
NGINX ingress controller – Deep dive with AWS EKS
NGINX is one of the most popular HTTP web server being used in the industry. NGINX ingress controller is an ingress controller leveraging NGINX as its backend to enable dynamic routing within Kubernetes cluster. An NGINX
The beginner’s guide to Observability
The article tries to capture the keywords used on a daily basis, explains the significance of each task done as part of observability and puts forth the challenges that exist in the industry today around observability.
NGINX Jaeger Tracing
Introduction to NGINX & Jaeger Tracing NGINX is a high-performance web server used widely across the industry to serve static files as well as act as a reverse proxy server & load balancer in several scenarios. NGINX is