Published inBetter Programming·PinnedThe Path of Getting Comfortable in ProductionMy path to getting comfortable in production — 4 years ago, I was quite a decent coder, I’ve been doing desktop development for about 6 years, I even managed a small team, but I never had the chance to work with highly available distributed systems leveraging short delivery cycles. 4 years ago I made the switch, going “all…DevOps7 min readDevOps7 min read
Published inBetter Programming·PinnedCan We Stop With Those Horrible “System Overview” Dashboards Already?It’s 2AM, you’re not asleep, your phone rings constantly with production issues. You are staring at your endless “system overview” dashboard, scrolling up and down through dozens of charts, showing different metrics and SLIs — some you’ve seen before, some are totally new to you, some are broken altogether. Some…DevOps7 min readDevOps7 min read
Aug 14I Don’t Alert on Apdex. It Confuses MeThere are many ways to build your observability and alerting posture for your production systems. …Observability5 min readObservability5 min read
Jul 25Data Puppy — Shrinking Data Dog Costs | Part IIIThe Datadog cost series: Part I — The costly elephant In the room is a (Data)dog Part II — The magic that is Datadog pricing Part III — Data Puppy, shrinking Datadog costs Welcome back to the series on hacking the Datadog pricing model. In the previous post we explored…Software Development6 min readSoftware Development6 min read
Jul 25The Magic That Is Datadog Pricing | Part IIThe Datadog cost series: Part I — The costly elephant In the room is a (Data)dog Part II — The magic that is Datadog pricing Part III — Data Puppy, shrinking Datadog costs Welcome back to the series on Datadog pricing. In the previous post we’re covered some of the…DevOps8 min readDevOps8 min read
Jul 25The Costly Elephant In The Room Is a (Data)dog | Part IThe Datadog cost series: Part I — The costly elephant In the room is a (Data)dog Part II — The magic that is Datadog pricing Part III — Data Puppy, shrinking Datadog costs Unless you’re living under a rock, you’ve probably heard of Datadog, one of the most loved and…DevOps6 min readDevOps6 min read
Jun 28What Is That Change Which Is The Source Of All Instability?It is a known saying in the SRE world that change is the source of all instability. And it is indeed so — change is what usually disrupts service, and takes applications down. Engineers usually think of “change” as code change, but the ugly truth is that there are many…DevOps5 min readDevOps5 min read
Published inBetter Programming·Apr 19Improving Incident Recovery By using The SLI PyramidImproving system reliability and uptime by prioritising SLIs — Let me take you back to one of my most painful production incidents: one of our main datastores failed during what we thought to be a simple maintenance act. The datastore was a main component in our system at that time and turned out to be a single point of…Engineering6 min readEngineering6 min read
Feb 13Leveraging Mutation Testing To Onboard Legacy ProjectsYou are an accomplished engineer, your skill set is vetted, and you are trusted with a challenging task — doing some important maintenance work on a legacy service you know nothing about. The original developers of the service are long gone, you have enough business context for what it does…Programming6 min readProgramming6 min read
Published inITNEXT·Dec 5, 2022log.warn(“This log will cost you”) On log cost optimizationDo you remember the moment you learned logs aren’t free? I for sure do. It was just after a major milestone our team achieved — we’ve just launched a new and shiny scalable service that is about to replace a legacy extremely high throughput, and extremely inefficient service. We just…DevOps9 min readDevOps9 min read
