Observability - Bruno Scheufler

Understanding how your application behaves in production is crucial for maintaining a healthy system. Observability is the practice of understanding how a system behaves by collecting logs, metrics, traces, and other data. This collection of articles covers various aspects of observability, from monitoring and logging to tracing and debugging. Learn how to improve the observability of your applications and make it easier to diagnose issues when they arise.

Aug 15, 2021

Analyzing Blog Performance Using R

When putting out content on the internet, it's interesting to see how everything performs, especially over time. While some topics might gain relevance, others may become less important. This is affected by broader trends in the industry, but also the nature of the content itself. Some blogs are dedicated to one specific topic, others vary their focus....R, Data Science, Statistics

Jul 25, 2021

Improving DataLoader Stack Traces

DataLoader is an elegant solution for batching access to your application data layer, and optionally caching it for subsequent access. With the rise of GraphQL, DataLoader has grown in popularity too, as it can be used for accessing data in multiple layers, caching it the first time, and returning the cached resource immediately on lower layers....GraphQL

May 22, 2021

Picking Monitoring Methods to Increase Observability

Monitoring is one of the most important areas of maintaining a product. Knowing when something breaks or degrades the performance for your users is incredibly important, and to be efficient when investigating, you'll need to do some work upfront that'll help you through hard times....Observability, NewRelic, Monitoring, Distributed Tracing, Error Reporting, Systems Architecture

May 16, 2021

Improving observability with annotated build information

In my recent posts on managing a commit-oriented infrastructure, I explained the benefits of deploying services of one specific version. This version would be the hashed Git commit reference, or commit SHA....Observability, CI/CD, Docker, Containers, Git, Systems Architecture