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Top Prometheus Interview Questions

If you are an engineer searching for a new role that involves a high level of knowledge on the monitoring stack Prometheus then you will likely wish to brush up on your knowledge of Prometheus ahead of your interview. In this guide, you will find a list of the most popular questions that are most likely to be asked to candidates looking to use Prometheus as part of their daily monitoring stack within their next role.

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How Core Web Vitals create business impact

What are Core Web Vitals, and why should you care? Let's power through the essentials of CWV, CX and their impact on $$$. This is written with the busy software executive in mind - so we're sticking to a clear, big-picture view of metrics, user experience and revenue. Chances are, if you've heard about Core Web Vitals (CWV), it's been in the form of a stick: something Google is enforcing that can hurt your search engine visibility. We're here to go over the carrot - a quick explainer of Core Web Vitals, and how they can help you connect with customers and drive lasting innovation.

Thank You 2022 Nastel Advisory Board Members!

Formed in 2021, the Nastel Technologies Advisory Board is made up of business and IT leaders from a wide variety of sectors, across the world. These enterprise leaders and innovators understand the incredibly important role of planning for, and the management of, the integration infrastructure (i2) layer (including messaging middleware, APIs, and much more) in their enterprises to enable meeting IT and larger corporate goals in 2022.

The Cost of Production Blindness

When I speak at conferences, I often fall back to the fact that just a couple of decades ago we’d observe production by kicking the server. This is obviously no longer practical. We can’t see our production. It’s an amorphous cloud that we can’t touch or feel. A power that we read about but don’t fully grasp. In this case, we have physical evidence that the cloud is there. A part of this major shift in our industry is a change to our fundamental roles as engineers.

Flask OpenTelemetry - Monitoring your Flask application using OpenTelemetry

Tracing your application can give the much-needed context required to troubleshoot performance issues. OpenTelemetry is an open-source project that can help you set up an observability framework for your cloud-native applications. In this tutorial, we will use SigNoz as our backend analysis tool. SigNoz is a full-stack open-source APM tool that can store and visualize the telemetry data collected with OpenTelemetry. It is built natively on OpenTelemetry and works on the OTLP data formats.

Logit.io Launches Further Improvements To Alerting & Monitoring

We are happy to announce today that we have launched further improvements to the Logit.io platform’s alerting and monitoring features. This latest release of the Logit.io platform offers our users an improved workflow to assist with their productivity on the platform as well as a more updated intuitive user interface (UI).

Django - Monitoring Django Application performance with OpenTelemetry

Tracing your application can give the much-needed context required to troubleshoot performance issues. OpenTelemetry is an open-source project that can help you set up an observability framework for your cloud-native applications. In this tutorial, we will use SigNoz as our backend analysis tool. SigNoz is a full-stack open-source APM tool that can store and visualize the telemetry data collected with OpenTelemetry. It is built natively on OpenTelemetry and works on the OTLP data formats.

Falcon - Monitoring apps based on Falcon Web Framework with OpenTelemetry

Tracing your application can give the much-needed context required to troubleshoot performance issues. OpenTelemetry is an open-source project that can help you set up an observability framework for your cloud-native applications. In this tutorial, we will use SigNoz as our backend analysis tool. SigNoz is a full-stack open-source APM tool that can store and visualize the telemetry data collected with OpenTelemetry. It is built natively on OpenTelemetry and works on the OTLP data formats.

Core Web Vitals for Dev Leads

How can you quickly identify ways to improve user experience without breaking the bank or dropping your other projects? Well, according to Google, by focusing on Core Web Vitals. This is a tight but detailed 3-step guide to better UX using Core Web Vitals, for the busy technical lead or senior developer. (This is Part 2 in a series — the first covered the big-picture view for execs, with Core Web Vitals’ impact on user retention and growth.