Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Bullshit and nonsense. But let’s take it from the beginning. The industry’s story goes something like this: Then, in the same breath: You see the contradiction already, right? The same industry that tells you “collect less, simplify, trust the experts” is also the industry where: This isn’t an observability strategy. It’s observability by hindsight. Right. Good. Now we’re having fun.

Cover letters are supposed to help you shine, but most of them blur together into the same polite, forgettable paragraphs. The intention is good (“I want them to notice me!”), but the execution… not so much. So, here’s a simple, honest guide to writing a cover letter that actually works, especially if you’re applying to Checkly. Spoiler: shorter is better. And authenticity in this AI era is better than perfect polished perfection.

Every production system will eventually break. It's not pessimism, it's just reality. That's why engineers go on-call, and why companies invest heavily in incident response tooling. But here's the problem: the moment an engineer goes on call, they typically need elevated access to production systems, databases, and sensitive customer data. And that elevated access? It's often permanent, overly broad, and a security nightmare waiting to happen.

Datadog is a popular monitoring platform, and one of its key components is DogStatsD which is a customized extension of the original open-source StatsD protocol. DogStatsD adds powerful features like tagging, histograms, and distributions, but it also introduces vendor lock-in. This is because DogStatsD metrics follow a specific wire format that many other monitoring platforms do not natively support.

Continuing my adventure to have Monitive being run by AI Agents, I had some brainstorming sessions with... well... AI. I was impressed about the maturity of the discussions one can have with ChatGPT 5.1 Pro and Claude Code Opus 4.5.

Provisioning cloud resources shouldn’t require a second stack of tools. With Qovery’s new Terraform and OpenTofu support, you can now define and deploy your infrastructure right alongside your applications. Declaratively, securely, and in one place. No external runners. No glue code. No tool sprawl.

Your app feels slow, users complain… but your dashboard says response time is totally fine! But the real pain is revealed when looking at percentiles. In this post, we’ll break down why the 95th percentile response time metric is useful, plus how to work with it in practice. ‍