Spooky Tales of Testing In Production: A Recap and Lessons Learned
Happy December! Back in October, we cohosted a SPOOKY HALLOWEEN meetup with our pals at LaunchDarkly about testing in production. Here’s a review of the talks we saw!
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Careful Data Science with Scala
Data science and machine learning have gotten a lot of attention recently, and the ecosystem around these topics is moving fast. One significant trend has been the rise of data science notebooks (including our own here at Sumo Logic): interactive computing environments that allow individuals to rapidly explore, analyze, and prototype against datasets.
The Tool Sprawl Problem in Monitoring
One of the biggest KPIs in the DevOps space is monitoring. There are so many tools to help any organization to complete their monitoring picture, but no tool does everything and most organizations use many tools to help complete their monitoring solution. Mashing tools together often creates a problem of its own — the tool sprawl problem.
Streamlined Kubernetes Cluster Agent
Sematext provides a single pane of glass and machine learning powered alerts for logs, metrics, traces and digital user experience data. The new Sematext agent is fully Docker Engine and Kubernetes-aware. (Re)written in Go, it has a minimal memory and CPU footprint. It also collects Kubernetes metrics in the most optimal fashion possible.
Marc Devens - Test in Production: The Penny Glitch that Cost Big
A change to a single line of code sent the prices of thousands of products on Amazon to a penny. Taking care of customers and focusing on engineering best practices allowed a company to survive and thrive after a "make or break" event.
Paul Biggar - Test in Production: The Time Our Provider Screwed Us
Once upon a time, our hosted DB provider had a terrible security incident, causing us to take down the entire product for 24 hours. This is a story about the aftermath: the downtime, the incident response, how we got back up, and how we communicated with customers.
Eric Pollmann - Test in Production: Two Tales
First, a tale of a silent-but-deadly data push on a path to take Google Ads fully offline within 90 minutes, with no diagnosis in sight. Second, a zombie haunted pipeline that kept developers awake late into the night. ...each concluded with how we slayed the beast!
Why European Users Are Leveraging Machine Data for Security and Customer Experience
To gain a better understanding of the adoption and usage of machine data in Europe, Sumo Logic commissioned 451 Research to survey 250 executives across the UK, Sweden, the Netherlands and Germany, and to compare this data with a previous survey of U.S. respondents that were asked the same questions. The research set out to answer a number of questions, including: Is machine data in fact an important source of fuel in the analytics economy?
Grafana v5.4 Released
Grafana v5.4 brings new features, many enhancements and bug fixes. This article will detail the major new features and enhancements.
Announcing Graylog v2.5
We are happy to announce that Graylog v2.5 is now available. This release includes several new features, including support for Elasticsearch 6.x, along with numerous bug fixes.