1+ day, 12+ hour ago  (633+ words) The most annoying kind of incident is when database doesn't go down completely - it just gets slower. Users start noticing it right away. Complaints come in. Everything is technically still running, but clearly something is off. And that is usually…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (289+ words) And Stripe is not alone. Circle launched USDC Nanopayments on testnet the same month, enabling gas-free micro-transfers down to $0. 000001. The race to become the default payment rail for autonomous AI agents is officially underway. Tempo is a payments-focused blockchain co-developed…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (508+ words) You've added opossum circuit breakers to protect your Node. js app from cascading failures. Good. But do you know when they're open? How often they're failing? What your 95th percentile fallback latency is? Without metrics, a circuit breaker is a black…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (370+ words) Reading time: ~22-25 minutes Level: Intermediate to Advanced Series: Part 3 of 4 - End-to-End Observability What you'll learn: Build comprehensive observability for Gen AI systems with Cloud Watch Gen AI Observability, X-Ray distributed tracing, and custom metrics It's 3 AM. Pager Duty wakes you…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (1699+ words) We run Loki in distributed mode on EKS, processing ~1. 16 TB of logs per day across ~34, 000 lines/second. This post covers the architecture we landed on, the configuration decisions that actually matter, and the numbers from production that validate (or challenge)…...

2+ week, 11+ hour ago  (351+ words) Solana has taken another step toward real-world crypto utility with support for the Machine Payments Protocol from Stripe and Tempo. The move allows developers building with the MPP SDK to use stablecoin payments for APIs on Solana, creating a smoother…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (563+ words) Pager Duty SRE Agent investigates and resolves complex incidents at enterprise scale Full Lifecycle Incident Management: Orchestrates and Automates in Tools Users Love Pager Duty is reinforcing its foundation with its plans to bring full lifecycle incident management directly into…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (219+ words) Modern cloud-native applications are typically built using microservices architectures, where a single user request can travel through multiple services before returning a response. While this architecture improves scalability and development speed, it also introduces a major challenge: observability. When a…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (858+ words) Decentralized social networks are part of the shift ongoing in how people interact online, thanks to Web3. Farcaster is a Web3 social network where individuals own their content on the blockchain rather than depending on a central platform." Adding Farcaster social feeds…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (168+ words) This article was originally published on bmf-tech. com. This post summarizes the differences between pull and push approaches in monitoring systems. In the pull approach, the monitoring server is configured with the target hosts, and it retrieves data from the…...