As it stands, we have 4 prometheis running in production that requires a significant amount of resources. This is leading to creation and management of high spec instances running in the cloud. 1. Identifying metrics with high cardinality First goal is to identify what metrics are causing signficant strain on prometheus in terms of memory usage…

Good read. Typo here: netsate -tlpn. Should be netstat -tlpn Also, may be worth referencing jq for querying JSON and pretty printing.

Designing distributed systems is no walk in the park. We can liken distributed systems to friendships. There are many people with who you may be friends and communicate on a daily basis. How do you ensure that you keep in sync with your friends in order to maintain healthy relationships…

This is a follow up from https://sennasemakula.medium.com/running-a-postgres-database-from-scratch-3409ec93905b Often you will be communicating with a database using code rather than directly running SQL commands inside the database. Getting started In order for Go applications to connect to databases, we will need to use the package database/sql from the standard library. This…

This tutorial is aimed at those that wish to create a Postgres relational database. This assumes you have basic background knowledge of SQL. Check out here. This tutorial assumes you are using linux/macOS. I have not covered additional support for windows. Install postgres via brew (macOS) brew update && brew…

REST architecture has been ubiquitous in web applications over the past two decades is the widespread adoption coming to an end? First of all, let’s explain the difference between REST and gRPC. REST abbreviated for Representation State transfer is an architecture style that focuses on using JSON and XML data…