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RTO and RPO in Disaster Recovery Explained | Resilience Testing | Harness

Struggling with disaster recovery planning? Learn the simple difference between RTO and RPO, the two most important metrics every developer, DevOps engineer, and SRE must understand. RTO (Recovery Time Objective) tells you exactly how long your systems can stay down before it hurts your business. RPO (Recovery Point Objective) shows how much recent data you can afford to lose in an outage.

What Does Load Testing Measure? (Top 5 Performance Metrics) | Resilience Testing | Harness

Before you deploy, you need to know if your application can handle real-world traffic. In this video, we break down the 5 essential load testing metrics: Response Time (latency), Throughput (requests per second), Error Rates (system stability), Resource Utilization (CPU/Memory bottlenecks), and User Concurrency. Whether you're into Software Engineering, DevOps, or SRE, understanding these System Design fundamentals is the only way to prevent server crashes and ensure Software Scalability.

8 Signs Your Service Desk Automation Tool Has Become the Bottleneck

Most service desk automation problems get misdiagnosed. You see the ticket backlog, the manual work, and the slow incident response, and assume the issue is due to process, adoption, or staffing. But at some point, the math stops working. You’ve invested in a service desk automation tool, given it time to mature, built workflows around it, and the results still don’t match what was promised.

Seeing the Bigger Picture: What technical leaders can learn from evolving monitoring needs

A preview of leadership insights shaped by real-world experience Estate-wide clarity for leaders who still need technical depth As data estates grow, the role of technical leaders changes. Visibility becomes harder. Communication becomes more important. Decisions have broader consequences. Many leaders start their careers focused on the technical details.

Instrumenting WordPress with OpenTelemetry: PHP Tracing, Browser RUM, and Error Capture in Production

WordPress powers 40% of the web but has no native observability story. Here's how to instrument it end-to-end with OpenTelemetry - PHP, browser RUM, and errors. Prathamesh works as an evangelist at Last9, runs SRE stories - where SRE and DevOps folks share their stories, and maintains o11y.wiki - a glossary of all terms related to observability.

Release v2.10: Secrets Management, Nagios Plugin Collector, Azure Monitor, and more

What’s New in Netdata v2.10 In this release, Netdata brings powerful new capabilities to help you monitor, troubleshoot, and understand your infrastructure faster without complexity. In this video, we walk through the key updates: Secrets Management – Securely manage sensitive configuration data Nagios Plugins Collector – Extend monitoring using existing Nagios plugins Azure Monitor – Bring Azure metrics into Netdata for unified visibility.

How Any FinOps Practitioner Can Use AI Right Now To Save 3-4 Hours/Week Of Tedium

Make AI do the dirty work while you focus your energy on strategy. CloudZero's Ryland Bowles shows you how. Every FinOps engineer is worried that AI is going to steal their job. I’ve worried about it. But I’ve also experimented extensively with AI, and I’ve got a pretty clear sense of what it can and can’t do in a FinOps context.