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Read on to learn why client-side network monitoring is so important and what you are missing if your only visibility into network performance is from a backend perspective.
Fredric Newberg — The New Stack
An engineer with no Kubernetes experience migrates an app to Kubernetes — with a bit of help from StackOverflow and Copilot, of course.
Jacob Brandt — Klaviyo
As data teams become increasingly critical, problems in their systems become incidents. Here’s an overview of how one data team has designed their incident response process.
Navo Das — incident.io
Certificate pinning can be a useful practice, but it’s also fraught with pitfalls and outage risks, especially with the modern tendency toward shorter certificates and multiple intermediates. What can we do instead?
Dina Kozlov — Cloudflare
A super-thorough overview of SLAs with a helpful section on how to chose the level for an SLA.
Diana Bocco — UptimeRobot
This debugging story focuses on a Linux TCP option I wasn’t familiar with: tcp_slow_start_after_idle.
Amnon Cohen — Ably
This is the story of a company that got an unexpectedly huge rush of interest in their platform—and traffic too. They made a number of changes to quickly scale to meet the demand.
Jekaterina Petrova — Dyninno
This Honeycomb incident followup seems to be related to their post that I shared last week.
Honeycomb
Full disclosure: Honeycomb is my employer.
