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Heroku Router Path Metrics

We are pleased to announce that we have released a new feature that allows you to collect Heroku Router metrics by path! By default, this option will not be enabled as it will increase your number of total metrics. If no action is taken, you will continue to receive your Router metrics in the default format. This provides a good overview of your application’s total connection times, requests by method/status, etc.

10 Most Common Kubernetes Reliability Risks

Reliability risks are potential points of failure in your system where an outage could occur. If you can find and remediate reliability risks, then you can prevent incidents before they happen. In complex Kubernetes systems, these reliability risks can take a wide variety of forms, including node failures, pod or container crashes, missing autoscaling rules, misconfigured load balancing or application gateway rules, pod crash loops, and more. And they’re more prevalent than you might think.

GitHub Variables and Nx Reusable Workflows

At Qovery, we build our frontend using Nx and rely on the official nrwl/ci GitHub Actions. Our frontend requires third-party tokens during compile time, but we would like to avoid hardcoding them or using the.env file to define our tokens. The latter exposes our source code directly on GitHub, and even though it's not sensitive data, we don't want it to be easily scraped.

Building An Intelligent Middle Mile

Middle-mile networks span from tens to several thousand kilometers and provide connectivity between last-mile access networks such as FTTH and mobile base stations and the core services and applications. The middle mile is essential for all operators looking to support new services. This can be both Service Providers delivering new revenue-generating services, or Network Operators delivering mission and business-critical services.

Cloud Migration Challenges: Overcoming Obstacles - TJay Belt | Redgate

TJay Belt, Director of Data at Nerd United, shares his thoughts on the obstacles you face when migrating to the cloud. Cloud adoption has been steadily on the rise for a number of years, driven by benefits such as scalability, accessibility and flexibility, security and cost.

New MTTX analytics to drive your reliability roadmap

Analytics are great. We can all agree there. But not all analytics are created equal. FireHydrant has long offered incident analytics dashboards that provide an in-depth look at the entire incident lifecycle. You can see how incidents impact services and teams, understand retrospective participation and completion, and even get insight into follow-ups. But great analytics do more than simply organize data. They help you tell a story.