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3AM Pager: When You Know the Data but Can't Search It
Ever tried searching your entire production stack for one user? Getting paged at 3 AM is bad enough. It’s worse when you only have a single username and zero visibility into what’s actually happening across your microservices. With Speedscale, you can perform full-text searches across every API call and database interaction in real-time. Stop guessing and start debugging with total context.
Why gRPC is a Debugging Nightmare #speedscale #observability #grpc #testing #devops
gRPC is fast and efficient - until it breaks at 2:00 AM. Traditional observability tools are built for HTTP/1.1 and JSON. When you switch to gRPC, you’re dealing with binary Protobuf payloads and HTTP/2 multiplexing that most logs and traces simply weren't designed to handle. Speedscale flips the switch by decoding Protobuf directly into human-readable JSON in real-time. Get the speed of gRPC with the visibility of REST.
AI reliability changes how you watch your systems
In this clip from an AI roundtable with Gremlin, Nobl9, and PagerDuty, Mandi Walls talks about how AI shifts how you watch your systems to keep them reliable.
Running Ansible Playbooks with Puppet Playbook Runner
Are you struggling to manage infrastructure scale with standalone Ansible playbooks? Discover how to consolidate your automation tools without losing your existing investment. In this demo, we explore how Puppet Edge empowers infrastructure teams to seamlessly execute Ansible Playbooks within Puppet workflows.
Sending Custom Application Metrics to MetricFire's Hosted Graphite
In this article, we’ll show how easy it is to send custom application metrics directly to MetricFire's public carbon endpoint. We’ll build a small Flask application, emit a handful of practical metrics, and generate local traffic to demonstrate how quickly meaningful data can flow from your code to your dashboards.
Five Ways to Simplify Data Masking | The Tony and Tonie Show Ep 38
5 signs your data masking is fast, secure, and low-maintenance. Can you protect PII, still deliver realistic test data, and design a data masking solution that’s easy to automate and maintain? Tony and Tonie discuss five key traits of a tool that does just that. Read the full article.
Deploy a serverless Python API to Scaleway Functions using CircleCI
Serverless platforms have revolutionized the way developers build and deploy APIs, eliminating the need to manage servers or underlying infrastructure. With serverless, you can focus entirely on your application logic and let the platform handle scaling, availability, and maintenance. Scaleway Serverless Functions is a flexible serverless platform that makes it easy to deploy lightweight APIs and background jobs in the cloud.
When is it ok or not ok to trust AI SRE with your production reliability?
There’s a moment every engineer knows. An AI suggests a fix, it looks reasonable,maybe even obvious, but production is on the line and you hesitate before clicking execute. There’s a big difference between an AI that can recommend an action and one you’re willing to let take that action. All it takes is one bad call, one kubectl command that makes things worse, and suddenly every automated suggestion is a potential liability instead of a help.
Simple Workflows for Flyway and Entity Framework Code First | The Tony and Tonie show Ep39
Code First is great, until you hit database deployment trouble. Flyway can help. Tonie and Tony discuss three practical EF–Flyway workflows that will bring tricky deployments under control, even on monoliths.