Tag: observability

All the articles with the tag "observability".

• Master Dapr Microservices: Ultimate Guide to Dapr, Kubernetes, and OpenTelemetry Tracing

  20 Sep, 2025

  Adaptability is a critical characteristic of software systems that developers and architects constantly strive to achieve. However, it's a delicate balance between productivity, performance, maintaina

• Establishing Datadog on Kubernetes with EKS

  18 Jul, 2025

  Over the past few years I've spent a great deal of time writing and building with Datadog. I find that their platform gives me as a builder the right insight and tools to diagnose things quickly, make

• 4 Benefits to using a Service Mesh

  19 Apr, 2025

  I've been spending a great deal of time lately working with Service Meshes and after having a few of the same conversations over and over (in a good way), I wanted to codify some of the reasons why th

• Connecting Rust Lambda Functions with OpenTelemetry and Datadog

  24 Feb, 2025

  Tracing Lambda Functions with observability code is the basement level of instrumentation that should exist when writing Serverless Applications. So many times, even in Lambda Functions, there are tim

• DSQL Part 2 - More Rust and a Momento Cache

  13 Dec, 2024

  **UPDATE: I had a missing index on my DSQL table. If you read the article before, please go back and check the metrics and graphs**

• AWS DSQL Tutorial: Serverless SQL Database with Lambda and Rust

  6 Dec, 2024

  Serverless developers that use Lambda as their compute of choice have long had to make a trade-off in AWS when it comes to storing their application data. Do I use a purely serverless database in Dyna

• Datadog RUM Provides Deep Application Insights

  13 Sep, 2024

  Observability is a user experience concern. Let that sync in for a minute. When you reach a certain amount of scale, it's not practical for a developer to take feedback from each and every user and th

• Powerful Visibility with Rust, Lambda, Datadog, and OpenTelemetry

  1 Aug, 2024

  As much as I love Rust and especially Rust on serverless, it would be hard for me to recommend Rust and Lambda to a company without a plan for Observability. I've written about this topic before and t