Dev Spotlight

We cover a wide array of software development and devops technologies. Here is some of our recent work:

Monitoring Back Pressure When Your Infrastructure is Pushed to the Limit

on November 28, 2018

Back pressure is a signal that a service is at capacity and cannot accept more load. You’ve probably experienced back pressure without even knowing it. How can we better manage back pressure and respond gracefully when it happens? We will run through an example of pushing WordPress to its limit to see what breaks first. We’ll also show you tools to monitor and find the root cause of back pressure in multi-tier applications.

Monitoring Kafka with Loggly

on November 26, 2018

Kafka logs contain valuable data on the health of the system. You can identify issues using logs if there is a broker down or if it is generating errors at a high rate. We’ll show you how Loggly can help monitor Kafka logs and alert you to problems.

Webpages Are Getting Larger Every Year, and Here’s Why it Matters

on November 15, 2018

Balancing a rich experience with page performance is a difficult tradeoff for many publishers. We gathered statistics from the top 1000 websites in the world to see how large their pages are. We’ll look at what’s driving this change and how you can track the size of your own company’s site.

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Monitoring Back Pressure When Your Infrastructure is Pushed to the Limit

Monitoring Kafka with Loggly

Webpages Are Getting Larger Every Year, and Here’s Why it Matters

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