It’s 10:00 p.m. on a Sunday when my 9th grader bursts into my room in tears. She says she doesn’t understand anything about algebra and is doomed to fail. I jump into supermom mode only to discover I don’t remember anything about high school math. So, I do what any supermom does in 2024 and head to ChatGPT for help. These generative AI chatbots are amazing. I quickly get a detailed explanation of how to solve all her problems.

When DNS Says: Talk to the Hand! What? This started with a post on social media, which created a discussion among us industry professionals. The following conversation happened when I got to talk to my coworkers about some interesting things regarding DNS responses. Putting us gearheads in a room always results in an interesting comment or two!

Remember the Tabs vs. Spaces arguments? It seems that observability has grown up enough that we are arguing over which signals are the “best” signals for observability. Often referred to as the Pillars of Observability, Metrics, Logs, and Traces (sometimes adding Events for MELT) each provide a unique perspective on a system. What happens when we change our perspective from finding the “best” telemetry format to finding the telemetry that aligns with the problems we need to solve?

In an increasingly digital world, organizations face complex challenges in managing their security data that’s growing at a relentless pace. With the rapid growth of cyber assets and the ever-present threat of sophisticated attacks, legacy security tools often struggle to keep up.

tldr: This post discusses how to measure CDN request locality without indexing a single log. The function of a CDN is to bring cacheable data, like pictures & videos, physically closer to your customers. This reduces latencies, and load on your backend servers. When measuring CDNs, there are some very common metrics.

Chaos Monkey is an open-source tool. Its primary use is to check system reliability against random instance failures. Chaos Monkey follows the testing concept of chaos engineering, which prepares networked systems for resilience against random and unpredictable chaotic conditions. Let’s take a deeper look.

Just as every organization should have a business plan, every organization should also have an IT strategy that supports that business plan. This article offers an overview of what an IT strategy is, what it does for an organization, and the key components that should go into an IT strategy.