In the world of performance testing there is a heavy focus on the practice of load testing. This requires building complex automated test suites which simulate load on our services. But load testing is one of the most expensive, complicated, and time consuming activities you can do. It also generates substantial technical debt. Load testing has its time and place, but it's not the only way to measure performance.
How do companies actually use Azure DevOps? What are the use cases? We took a look at how the team at SquaredUp uses Azure DevOps to build their CI/CD pipelines and deploy new features to their SaaS product.
If you take a glance at LinkedIn, Twitter, or any tech-focused social content these days you're bound to see people talking about something called "DORA metrics". So what are DORA metrics? What value do they provide? And how can you get started with them?
DORA metrics, not to be confused with the beloved children’s cartoon character, are a bit trendy at the moment in the world of technology. The DevOps Research and Assessment group (DORA) is run out of Google. They run surveys and do research into what makes organizations successful in the Digital Age. They’re probably most well known for their yearly State of DevOps Reports and the book Accelerate.
When Azure AD is configured to record Sign-In activity, Kusto KQL can be used to gain valuable insights. This blog walks through common needs and shows how to visualize them in SquaredUp. Ruben Zimmermann is an Infrastructure Architect at a large manufacturing company who likes Azure, KQL, PowerShell and, still, SCOM.
Since we launched the new SquaredUp last Fall, our focus has been making it easier than it’s ever been to connect to any data source, build beautiful dashboards, and share them with anyone. Today we’re excited to announce a fully redesigned dashboarding experience that does just that. The new dashboarding experience remains backed by data mesh technology, which means your data stays where it lives – it’s simply stitched together and available on-tap from the source.
So you want to spin up a Postgres database on your local machine, but you don't fancy having to install and manage everything manually? Running Postgres inside Docker is a great way to simplify the situation. It lets you: In this article I will explain how to do this step by step.
Prometheus is an open source and free to use metrics collection and storage solution. It's used extensively in the industry for monitoring many different technologies. In this article I will show you how to get Prometheus up and running as a binary, a container running in Docker, and inside Kubernetes.
In software observability, we often talk about three signal types - metrics, logs, and distributed traces. More recently I've been hearing about profiles as another signal type. In this article I will explain the different observability signals and when to use them in a clear and concise way.
Automatic instrumentation is great, but to get the most out of your monitoring you often need to instrument your code. In this article I am going to explain how to instrument a Node.js express app with custom metrics using the Prometheus prom-client package. Although this article specifically addresses Node.js and express, my hope is that the general concepts are applicable to other languages too.
