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Exploring the Software Behind Facebook, the World's Largest Social Media Site

At the scale that Facebook operates, several traditional approaches to serving web content break down or simply aren’t practical. The challenge for Facebook’s engineers has been to keep the site up and running smoothly in spite of handling over two billion active users. This article takes a look at some of the software and techniques they use to accomplish that.

Release 1.38.0 - DBENGINE v2, Functions, Events, Notifications, Role Based Access, and much more!

The Netdata team is very excited to introduce you to all the new features and improvements in the new version. HIGHLIGHTS: DBENGINE v2 The new open-source database engine for Netdata Agents, offering huge performance, scalability and stability improvements, with a fraction of memory footprint! FUNCTION: Processes Netdata beyond metrics! We added the ability for runtime functions, that can be implemented by any data collection plugin, to offer unlimited visibility to anything, even not-metrics, that can be valuable while troubleshooting.

Cycle Podcast | EP 17 | Nick Stinemates | Time at Docker/Rancher + Network Observability with Kentik

In this episode, Jake Warner chats with Nick Stinemates, VP of Business Development and Co-Chair of Labs at Kentik. Nick shares his experiences as an early team member at both Docker and Rancher and discusses Kentik's efforts to bring observability to networks for ISPs and large enterprises.

Running API and Browser Checks Using Terraform, AWS, and Checkly Private Locations

When adding new Checks in Checkly a number of locations are available to check your endpoints from multiple locations around the world. For most use cases this is more than enough to ensure your resources are online. However, these locations are outside of your network and are unable to check on resources deployed more securely inside your private network.

Using Tagging and Routing Rules in Squadcast I Incident Classification I Event Tagging I Squadcast

Event Tagging is a rule-based, auto-tagging system with which you can define customized tags based on incident payloads, that get automatically assigned to incidents when they are triggered. This video explains how to create Tagging rules for efficient Incident Classification.

GitKraken Client 9.1: When Our Users Speak, We Listen

In our 2022 year in review, we recapped the six highly-requested features that were implemented over the course of the year. We also acknowledged the five highly-requested features that “got away” – meaning we hadn’t gotten to them… yet! Well, GitKraken Client 9.1 is here, we’re happy to share that two of those enhancements are now accounted for, along with other user-requested features and improvements that represent input from over 1,000 users.