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The Domino Effect of Outages with Nuno Tomás, Founder of isDown.app

Jan 24, 2025 By Rootly In Rootly
Humans of Reliability: Keeping systems up and the lights on isn’t just about technology—it’s about the people behind it. In this episode, we’re thrilled to chat with Nuno Tomas, founder of Isdown.app, a vendor outage monitoring tool transforming how teams handle third-party incidents. Nuno shares his journey from software engineer to entrepreneur, the pivotal 4 a.m. moment that inspired Isdown, and the challenges of balancing startup life with family. We dive into the complexities of incident communication, how to tackle alert fatigue, and why transparency is key to building trust in SaaS.
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OpenTelemetry Profiling: A Look into Performance Insights

Jan 23, 2025 By Ujjwal Goyal In Last9
In software development, making sure your apps perform well is key. Performance issues, hidden delays, and wasted resources can quickly hurt user experience and increase costs. That’s where OpenTelemetry profiling steps in to help. In this blog, we’ll break down what OpenTelemetry profiling is, why it’s important, and how you can use it to optimize your applications.
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A Complete Guide to Threat Hunting: Tools and Techniques

Jan 22, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Today, threat hunting has emerged as a proactive defense strategy. No longer is it sufficient to rely solely on reactive measures; identifying and mitigating potential threats before they cause damage is now the name of the game. And the key to effective threat hunting? The right tools. This blog takes you through all about threat-hunting, the right tools, their capabilities, and why they’re indispensable in cybersecurity.
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Getting Started with the OpenTelemetry Helm Chart in K8s

Jan 22, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Managing observability in cloud-native environments can feel like juggling a thousand things at once. OpenTelemetry makes this easier by becoming a favorite among developers for collecting, processing, and exporting telemetry data without breaking a sweat. Now, let’s talk about the OpenTelemetry Helm Chart. It’s like having a shortcut button for deploying OpenTelemetry in Kubernetes.
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Everything You Should Know About OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib

Jan 22, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Observability isn’t just a nice-to-have—it’s essential. OpenTelemetry steps in as a unified framework that helps you collect, process, and export telemetry data across distributed systems. The OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib extends this framework, offering extra components that make it even more powerful and flexible, helping developers and operators monitor and optimize systems with ease.
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How to Use the Laravel Scheduler for Task Management

Jan 22, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
We all know time is precious, especially when your application relies on tasks that need to be done repeatedly. The Laravel Scheduler is the tool that helps you automate and manage those tasks effortlessly. But how does it work, and what makes it so powerful? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered! In this guide, we’ll walk you through everything you need to know to get started.
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AIOps: Prove It!

Jan 21, 2025 By Lex Neva In Honeycomb
I’ve read a steadily increasing stream of articles about using AI in SRE, and I have yet to find one that inspires my trust. Each article makes impressive claims about the capabilities of AI and the way it can be applied to SRE tasks, but the vast majority are light on details. AI tools, and especially LLMs, are growing incredibly quickly, and I feel that these tools have a ton of potential.
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SLF4J vs Log4j: Key Differences and Choosing the Right One

Jan 21, 2025 By Preeti Dewani In Last9
When building robust, maintainable, and scalable Java applications, logging plays an essential role in debugging, monitoring, and ensuring smooth performance. Two of the most widely used logging frameworks in the Java ecosystem are SLF4J and Log4j. While both serve similar purposes, they offer different approaches and features, making it important to understand their differences before making a choice.
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Serilog: Configuration, Error Handling & Best Practices

Jan 21, 2025 By Ujjwal Goyal In Last9
When building modern.NET applications, logging is one of those things you don’t want to get wrong. Serilog steps in as a popular logging framework that has earned its spot as a go-to tool for developers. Why? Because it’s flexible, versatile, and does an awesome job of giving you clear insights into your app's behavior. But what exactly is Serilog?
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