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They Aren't Pillars, They're Lenses

To have Observability is to have the ability to understand your system’s internal state based on signals and externally-visible output. Honeycomb’s approach to Observability is to strive toward this: every feature of the product attempts to move closer to a unified vision of figuring out what your system did, and how it got there.

Connecting Ethereum

ETHDenver connects developers, technologists, cypher punks, coders, crypto-economists, designers and makers to build on Ethereum, making it the perfect place to debut Splunk Connect for Ethereum. The use cases we saw added observability to blockchains like Ethereum mainnet and sidechains in real time. As the event went on, use cases and requests continued to pop up (which you'll see below); the app was used to index not just ethereum mainnet, but also sidechains such as xDai and OST Mosaic.

Top tips to improve JavaScript performance for faster websites

Performance is one of the most important concerns when developing an application. All software developers should monitor and improve performance in every layer of the application. From the database to the server-side language, there are plenty of opportunities for performance issues to arise, and the front end is certainly no exception. So that’s why today we’re talking about JavaScript performance and how to improve it.

Kubernetes Rolling Update Configuration

Deployment controllers are a type of Pod controller in Kubernetes. They provide fine-grained control over how its pods are configured, how updates are performed, how many pods should run, and when pods should be terminated. There are many resources available for how to configure basic deployments, but it can be difficult to understand how each option impacts how rolling updates are performed.

Three ways to debug IIS web server failures using logs

Unresponsive and slow pages are both terrible for any website. Even with the best user interface (UI), unresponsive and slow pages negatively affect the customer experience and the brand's reputation. Research from the Nielsen Norman Group has determined that the average user will leave a site after about 10 seconds of waiting for a page to load. If your page takes longer than a few seconds to load, it's time you check your IIS server logs.

UI/UX Updates: Faster and Smoother Sample Navigation in AppSignal

Today, we’re bringing you an update of the performance/exceptions sample page. This update includes a number of improvements that will help you navigate and filter the available samples faster and more smoothly. We’re bringing these changes as an iteration of sample navigation improvements that we launched a while ago. We received valuable feedback from our users: the overlay made the navigation choppy instead of fluent.

How to configure Grafana as code

Grafana dashboards can do a lot, but do you know how much more you can get out of them by configuring them as code? That was the topic of a recent FOSDEM 2020 talk by Grafana software developer Malcolm Holmes and Julien Pivotto, an open source consultant at Inuits. In their presentation, the pair discussed Grafonnet (a Jsonnet library to generate Grafana dashboards), provided tips and tricks about how to use it efficiently, and explained how to fully manage your Grafana instances from code.

The Best Resources for Learning Kubernetes

Kubernetes is the world’s leading container orchestration platform. Its cloud agnostic status enables you to manage your workloads with ease, whether they reside in the cloud or on-premises. It has reduced the necessity of being locked into services provided by a cloud provider as well as the need for an entire operations team to manage large workloads on-premises on virtualization platforms.

Automated Tools and Strategies to Help Migrate from Python 2 to 3

This article is a continuation of Part I (A comprehensive guide to migrating from Python 2(Legacy Python) to Python 3), which details the changes, and improvements in Python 3, and why they are essential. The rest of the article describes automated tools, strategies, and the role of testing in the migration from Python 2 to 3.

3 ways of cloning an application and a database per git branch

Back in the early days of software development, having multiple developers working on the same application was a tough challenge. That’s why VCS (Version Control System) like Git was created and methodology like Feature Branching was introduced. The basic idea of working per git branch (also known as Feature Branching) is that when you start to work on a feature, you take a branch of your repository (e.g: git) to work on that feature.