When making changes to your production services, it’s important to have a plan for how to detect problems and roll back changes. How many roll out plans would include: “if it breaks, don’t worry, the users will tell us!” But if your monitoring coverage of production services isn’t complete, you’re implicitly relying on your users to tell you when something breaks.
Availability and reliability are two essential concepts in system design, but they are not the same. Availability refers to how often a system is up and running, accessible for use. In contrast, reliability measures how consistently the system performs without failure over time. Both are important, but they focus on different aspects of a system's performance.
Ever stumbled upon a “404 Not Found” message or seen the dreaded “500 Internal Server Error” and wondered what’s going on? These are HTTP status codes, and they’re like secret signals that servers use to communicate with browsers and let us know what’s happening when we visit a website. Some codes tell us everything’s fine while others can point to issues that need fixing.
Ethereum is a monumental figure in the world of blockchain technology and the cryptocurrency landscape. Since Ethereum was launched, it has captivated the attention of developers, individuals, and investors. Furthermore, its inherent versatility made Ethereum more than a digital currency, as it also represents a blockchain that fosters smart contracts, decentralized applications, and other innovative features.
Modern retail investors can automate trading routines to increase efficiency of investments and make money reliably without actively participating in the market. Robots are capable of doing everything, from generating signals to executing market orders, without any human intervention aside from initial tuning. With the latest advancements in AI for financial markets, newcomers are encouraged to experiment and explore the field of trading automation more than ever!
Cloud computing shapes the ability of enterprises to transform themselves and effectively compete. By renting elastic cloud resources, enterprises can support new customer platforms, distributed workforces, and back-office operations. The cross-functional discipline of CloudOps helps enterprises manage cloud resources by optimizing applications and infrastructure. But, none of this can be done without the right strategies and techniques to analyze your application telemetry data - primarily logs and events.
Platform engineering is rapidly evolving as businesses look for more efficient ways to manage infrastructure, automate workflows, and improve developer productivity. In this edition, we'll explore the top 10 platform engineering platforms for September 2024, optimized for scalability, automation, and ease of use. These platforms empower developers to focus on building code while platform engineers handle infrastructure with reduced complexity.