AWS Lambda has become the most widely used deployment pattern for serverless applications. It allows developers to set aside worrying about server provisioning, maintenance, idle capacity management and scaling, and instead to focus solely on writing business logic. But that’s not entirely true. Because while Lambda is a self-managed AWS service, it still requires careful design to get the best performance out of the computation capabilities it provides.

Honeycomb now offers SLOs, aka Service Level Objectives. This is the second in a set of of essays on creating SLOs from first principles. Previously, in this series, we created a derived column to show how a back-end service was doing. That column categorized every incoming event as passing, failing, or irrelevant. We then counted up the column over time to see how many events passed and failed. But we had a problem: we were doing far too much math ourselves.

While open source technologies have seen widespread adoption over the last two decades, there is no denying the huge market share that proprietary (closed source) software commands in the enterprise. The largest software vendors like Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, SAP, and VMware have a variety of products that are market leaders in their respective technology categories.

It’s the beginning of a new year! You’ve had a great 12 months, are rested after the holiday break, and are now raring to make this year your MSP’s best one yet. You’re enthusiastic and you’re energetic. But how can you turn this positive energy into business success? Start by using these seven suggestions to kickstart your MSP for (almost) immediate improvements.

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the phrase “Ok, Boomer”—that popular retort Millennials often use to joke about my generation’s perceived lack of knowledge with modern-day technology. To be honest, I laugh a lot at those jokes but that’s because I relate more to the disconnect between digital master and novice.

If you’re an Android user, relying on data from your cellular provider is one way of avoiding the risks of free public Wi-Fi – especially if you don’t have the tools or services necessary to give you full protection. Android also has a huge and widely varied user base distributed across the globe. Many of these users operate in regions where free or paid Wi-Fi isn’t even an option. In such instances, going online via cellular data is the only choice they have.

BugSplat is pleased to announce our integration with Assembla, a popular project and program management tool. This integration allows user to create defects directly from crash reports or Stack Keys in Assembla. Hyperlinks allow quick navigation from defects to crash reports and back. Defects created from BugSplat automatically include symbolic call stack information as well as other crash-specific data that can help your team crush bugs faster. Get more information on this integration in our docs.

Web server logs and other access logs from technologies such as NGINX, Apache, and AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) provide a wealth of key performance indicators (KPIs) for monitoring the health and performance of your application and understanding your users’ experience. These logs tell you how long pages take to load, where errors are occurring, which parts of your application are requested the most, and much more.

Last year, we introduced Watchdog to help Datadog APM users detect performance problems in their services by applying machine learning algorithms to automatically surface anomalies. Today, we’re excited to announce Watchdog for Infra, which expands the scope of Watchdog to automatically provide ongoing visibility into the health and performance of your infrastructure with no setup required.

In this blog post, we will discuss the experiments we did to find the best hashing method for Metrictank data distribution.