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  • Observability Round Up 30th October 2023

    Thanks for tuning into another edition of Observability Round Up where we take a look at some of the more interesting things happening in the Observability industry. Over the last 2 weeks saw some interesting news of out the Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF) announcing that Cilium has gone from Incubating to Graduated after meeting…

  • Optimising Visibility: The Convergence of Traces and Logs

    Introduction Everyone that has ever written any code will have written some permutation of “Hello World”. The feeling of unstoppable power as you can now successfully, write, compile, and execute your own code. At least this is how I felt some 25 years ago. This is before the weight of pointer arithmetic, boolean algebra, and…

  • Unveiling the Power of OpenTelemetry: An Exploration with SigNoz for Superior Observability

    In the second of this series exploring OpenTelemetry, we take a look at SigNoz as an OpenTelemetry Observability solution. Having worked for an Observability vendor that had an APM offering, I found the interface intuitive and easy to work through. In this article I’m going to explore the Traces capability within SigNoz and plan to…

  • Practical OpenTelemetry Review

    OpenTelemetry is something I’ve been watching for a while now and reviewing Practical OpenTelemetry was the perfect excuse to dive deeper. In my lab I’ve been running a project called SigNoz for which I’m writing up a companion article to this one to show some practical examples. When I first looked into OpenTelemetry about 4…

  • Interview: Getting Closer to Customers

    This week I was fortunate enough to interview a good friend of mine Saurabh Jain. Saurabh has spent the last 6 years at Riverbed Technology located in Bengaluru and New Delhi as a Tech Evangelist in SD-WAN and Observability. While I’d worked with Saurabh remotely for some time, I finally got to meet him in…

  • Observability Round Up 14th October 2023

    2023 has been an amazing year for #observability with an increase the number of cloud native observability tools gaining a critical mass of deployments. There a few trends that have me extremely excited that I expect to see grow in the next 12 months I plan to write about over the next couple of weeks.:…

  • XDP: Your eBPF Packet Processing Introduction!

    I want to let you in on why I think XDP (eXpress Data Path) is so awesome and will change the game when it comes to security, routing, and application delivery.

  • Zero trust and measuring performance

    I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how we guarantee performance in a QUIC, DTLS, and ZTNA world from a network perspective. Check out the NIST ZTNA paper for the gory details. Traditional mechanisms like loss and delay from a congestion control perspective are not as visible as the encryption controlled by the endpoints are not visible…