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How Observe Built An Observability Platform On Snowflake.

The Observability Platform from Observe is a tool that helps engineers and DevOps teams quickly analyze the performance of and troubleshoot problems with an organization’s distributed applications. Its power comes from its ability to ingest any kind of telemetry and machine data–trace data, log data, metric data, billing data, and so on–into a single source using Snowflake, and then map the relationships between data sets. These relationships can be displayed graphically as an interactive visualization, making it easy for end users to trace connections between datasets in order to diagnose the cause of error notifications or gain insight into an application's performance.

Netlify Identity protects Ably apps from hacks

A few weeks ago I saw this message in our internal support channel on Slack, and it made my gears grind. So I stopped to take a look, since the last thing we want is a customer taken advantage of. There are people out there on the internet cheeky enough to freeload off your account, and use up your monthly quotas. What's more: you may not know that it is happening.

Choosing an Analytical Cloud Data Platform [Webinar Recap]

Last week, ChaosSearch CTO & Head Scientist Thomas Hazel joined forces with Doug Henschen, VP & Principal Analyst of Constellation Research, to deliver a live webinar on “Choosing an Analytical Cloud Data Platform: Trends, Strategies, and Tech Considerations.” In this blog, we’re highlighting the deepest insights, the best advice, and the most actionable recommendations that emerged from the discussion.

Understand API Load Testing vs. API Performance Monitoring

With over a billion more mobile devices projected to become connected over the next year, it’s never been more important to ensure SLA performance and functional reliability for business-critical APIs. While QA, development, and SRE teams have traditionally relied on API load testing and uptime or ping monitors to mitigate performance risk, too many companies have felt the pain of APIs, mobile apps and web platforms failing under stress or unexpected traffic patterns.