Google’s new Developer Knowledge API and MCP server provide AI assistants with direct access to up-to-date Google developer documentation.
End-to-End Visibility: The Role of Observability in Frontend and Backend Systems
Have disappointing slowdowns, elusive bugs, and misleading outages ever affected your digital system, even when traditional monitoring shows “all green”? Today’s users demand spontaneous experiences, but DevOps, SRE and software teams often struggle with limited visibility in giant front-end and back-end systems. Result? Customer dissatisfaction, reduction in uptime, and lost revenue. The Good News: End-to-end […]
It’s All About Communication
With all of our technological advances, DevOps teams are still facing unexpected issues that need to be communicated clearly and quickly.
Don’t Hire for Product Expertise
We all know the jokes about talent recruitment that “requires a century of experience in AI/ML.” With the number of layoffs, no doubt this type of approach will get worse. But that is not generally a tech problem; it is an HR problem–the problem of having people hire in tech that aren’t active in or […]
A Cause for Complaint
Learning Production Troubleshooting Techniques in Microarchitectures
One of the great things about our industry is the ability for anyone to get started doing development with a minimal amount of tools. Anyone can learn to do development with just a computer of some sort, a text editor, a tutorial and their brain. In fact, the initial basics of how to think through […]
4 Ways to Give DevOps Teams the Support They Need
If it weren’t hard enough for IT infrastructure teams to innovate and keep the lights on, a host of technologies designed to drive efficiencies are introducing new levels of complexity across the data center. Virtualization, cloud computing, software-defined storage and digital are making it much more difficult for the infrastructure team to control, manage and […]
DevOps Without Scale, Part 2
In Part 1 of this series, I covered why it’s important to be aware of your product’s health and how you can do so. I covered the user experience and technical types of metrics and how to get started with collecting them. In this part of the series I will walk you through how to […]