Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Building Docker images efficiently is crucial for developers and organizations seeking streamlined development and deployment processes, and it’s a real topic for the 50k developers on Qovery; a few weeks ago, a topic was even open on our forum about it. In this article, we will explore three valuable tips gathered along the way to improve the build time of your Dockerfiles, allowing you to optimize your workflow and save valuable time.

Streaming telemetry holds the promise of radically improving the reliability and performance of today’s complex network infrastructures, but it does come with caveats. In the first of a new series, Kentik CEO Avi Freedman covers streaming telemetry’s history and original development.

The benefits of going cloud-native are far reaching: faster scaling, increased flexibility, and reduced infrastructure costs. According to Gartner®, “by 2027, more than 90% of global organizations will be running containerized applications in production, which is a significant increase from fewer than 40% in 2021.” Yet, while the adoption of containers and Kubernetes is growing, it comes with increased operational complexity, especially around monitoring and visibility.

Overview of what is high cardinality in the context of monitoring using Prometheus and Grafana.

Papertrail has had the ability to alert on searches that match events for years, but what about when they don’t? When a cron job, backup, or other recurring job doesn’t run, it’s not easy to notice the absence of an expected message. But now, Papertrail can do the noticing for you with inactivity alerts. Papertrail inactivity alerts allow you to setup notifications when searches don’t match events.

Embedded systems often require a careful eye to where memory resources are being spent, especially runtime memory utilization like stack and heap memories. This article is intended to shed some light on strategies for measuring stack memory usage on a small embedded system.

It was a nice sunny morning, the weather really with us, for our Icinga Camp Berlin this year. When I peeked outside after helping with the setup, people were already mingling, getting ready to check in and get their first coffee to prepare for the day ahead. Bernd took the stage, welcoming everyone with genuine enthusiasm, setting the tone for what promised to be an engaging event. Surrounded by our community, I felt right at home – ready to dive into the talks and connect with new friends.