The other day whilst using a very popular website I came across a series of 404 unavailable page messages. I didn’t think much about it at the time but on reflection it made me wonder how many people actually understand what different error codes mean? Hands up, I only know a few and I work in the website monitoring sector. To most, it just means a weird IT message when things go wrong.
Technology is changing the world faster than ever. Thanks in part to the rise of the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model, customers have come to expect the apps they use to be accessible at all times. As a result, companies are transforming the way their teams operate in order to meet these demands. And perhaps no team experiences the impact of a transformation like this more than IT.
Since graduating within CNCF last August, Prometheus has adopted a new schedule for releases every six weeks. The latest release, v2.11, arrived on July 9. Prometheus 2.11 includes a new option to compress WAL records using Snappy, query performance improvements, the option to use Alertmanager API v2, and more. You can download the latest version here. prometheus_tsdb_wal_reader_corruption_errors is now renamed to prometheus_tsdb_wal_reader_corruption_errors_total.
Python list comprehensions offer a concise method of interacting with each element of a list. Even though they’ve been available since Python 2.0, their syntax often demotivates people from using them. This article aims to introduce List Comprehensions in a friendly way and offer you one more Python feature to add to your scripting toolbox.
Two years ago, Pusher started building an internal Kubernetes based platform. As we transitioned from a single product to multiproduct company, we wanted to help our product teams spend less time worrying about shared concerns such as infrastructure and be able to focus more on writing business logic for our products. Over this period, our platform team have solved many of the problems that Kubernetes doesn’t solve out of the box. Until recently, we had not solved the problem of configuration.
Serverless applications require a whole new approach to development workflow. In this article, Lumigo Director of Engineering Efi Merdler-Kravitz details the guiding principles and tools used at a 100% serverless company to ensure the most efficient workflow possible. We are not going to talk about product development flow (no product managers were harmed during the making of this post!).
This week’s AWS Summit in New York was an exciting one for both AWS and PagerDuty. The AWS team rolled out Amazon EventBridge, a set of APIs for AWS CloudWatch Events that makes it easy for AWS SaaS partners to inject events for their customers to process in AWS. PagerDuty is excited to continue and deepen our long partnership with AWS by supporting EventBridge as a launch partner.
If you're running in the cloud and ever struggle to predict, report on, or attribute your cloud costs, you may want to consider a new kind of role: A Financial Cloud Operations Manager. While a traditional cloud operations manager may sit on the DevOps team or report to an engineering lead, a financial cloud ops manager’s reporting structure is slightly different.
I hear it all the time when talking to future BigPanda customers; “I’m not sure BigPanda can really help me correlate all these alerts together because our CMDB is very immature.” Or sometimes, they don’t even have a CMDB, and incorrectly assume this disqualifies them from meaningful noise reduction and alert correlation. I’m happy to tell you the same thing I tell the folks who are looking at BigPanda for the first time. “No CMDB? No problem!”.
