Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Latest News

Navigating the Evolving Landscape: A Deep Dive into REST API Versioning Strategies

In the ever-evolving landscape of APIs, ensuring seamless interactions and managing changes becomes crucial. While innovation and adaptability are essential, maintaining backward compatibility is equally important to avoid disruption for existing users. This is where REST API versioning comes into play. Versioning allows you to introduce new features or changes to your API in a controlled manner, while simultaneously keeping older versions running smoothly.

Cultivating Your Tech Garden: Enriching APM with Synthetic Monitoring

Welcome to the Tech Garden, a place where our monitoring tools, like to diverse flora, contribute to a thriving digital ecosystem. Our journey starts with the foundational roots of Application Performance Monitoring (APM), crucial for initial growth and stability, like the roots beneath our fruit trees.

Broken windows: Why the 'Single Pane of Glass' is Impossible

It was only as I started to study information theory that I truly understood how nonsensically the computer worked in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Decades before voice assistants and at a time when only the most basic language parsing existed in practice, the computer on Star Trek could always give you the answer you wanted. No one ever spent any time clicking into multiple windows to find an answer, and the display always gave information that could be easily summarized in words.

IaC? CI? Shift Left? What do they really mean? - A DevOps Glossary

Look, we've all been there: there's a term, you've heard it one hundred times. You've nodded as others said it in meetings. And now, you've started to say it. The only tiny insignificant problem is that you're not 100% sure what it actually means or how it's different from another similar term. I feel you. So I wrote this DevOps glossary with my highly opinionated definitions of common DevOps industry terms.

Safer Client-Side Instrumentation with Honeycomb's Ingest-Only API Keys

We're delighted to introduce our new Ingest API Keys, a significant step toward enabling all Honeycomb customers to manage their observability complexity simply, efficiently, and securely. Ingest Keys are currently available for Environment & Services customers, with Classic support and programmatic key management capabilities under development and coming soon!

The Real Cost of Synthetic User Testing with AWS

Every time I share a project using SaaS tools, someone inevitably responds that they could do the same thing on their own home server ‘for free.’ I mention this not because it is annoying, since I would never go on social media at all if annoying responses were allowed to change my behavior, but because I think it points to a basic misconception that still affects DevOps practitioners today: the refusal to accurately estimate the real costs of self-managed solutions.