ASArief Shaikinariefshaik.hashnode.dev·3d ago · 4 min readBuilding Highly Available Long-Term Metrics Storage with ThanosPrometheus is the de-facto standard for monitoring in Kubernetes environments. It is incredibly powerful for scraping and querying real-time metrics. However, as our infrastructure grew, we hit a comm00
SGSergio González Téllezinevankhandev.hashnode.dev·6d ago · 6 min readBeyond SQL: How a Data Science Capstone Changed the Way I Think About Metrics, State, and Observability1. Introduction When I enrolled in the Learn SQL Basics for Data Science Specialization from the University of California, Davis, my goal was straightforward: learn SQL and strengthen my data analysis00
Mmayaanderssoninllmasajudge.hashnode.dev·Jul 8 · 7 min readOne average eval score was hiding two different failure modesA mean faithfulness of 0.75 sounds like a model that is usually right and occasionally slips. Mine was near-perfect on half the data and near-zero on the other half, and 0.75 described neither slice. 00
YKYash Karechainyash-karecha.hashnode.dev·Jul 5 · 21 min readI Built My Own ChatGPT Backend to Understand How AI Streaming Actually WorksEvery time I use Claude or ChatGPT I get stuck on the same question: how does the text just show up, word by word, like the model is thinking out loud in real time? Why does it feel instant when it's 00
SFSteve Fentoninfenton.hashnode.dev·Jun 22 · 7 min readHow To Measure Platform EngineeringThough developer burnout has been a strong motivator for platform engineering, there are many other reasons to adopt this approach. The method you use to track the success of your internal developer p00
OOmnithiuminomnithium.hashnode.dev·Jun 17 · 26 min readMeasuring Agentic AI ROI: Beyond Cost Savings to Strategic ValueThe ROI Blind Spot in Agentic AI Investments Most agentic AI business cases are built on a lie. They promise a 40% reduction in manual effort, a 25% drop in operational costs, a 15% headcount realloca00
UKUdit Kapoorinbuildtrail.hashnode.dev·May 28 · 2 min readStop Tracking Everything. Track These 5 Numbers Instead.If you are a developer building a product, you probably have opinions about data. You know how to build dashboards. You understand metrics. And yet tracking your own startup progress is probably a mes00
CBChirag Bhatiainblog.thestaffblueprint.com·May 20 · 6 min readMetric Granularity for Batch WorkloadsThe Question This Post Answers Part 2 established the architecture: StatsD for counts, Pushgateway for state snapshots. But two critical questions remain: What level of granularity should you achieve10
HKHesham Khaledinheshamspace.hashnode.dev·May 18 · 14 min readObservability Is a Method, Not a StackIntroduction I recently added metrics, monitoring, and centralized logs to a self-hosted automation platform. The specific example was an n8n deployment. I thought I was setting up an observability st10
ASAbhishek Sharmainabhishekshr.hashnode.dev·Apr 28 · 6 min readI Had No Idea Which Endpoint Was Slowest. So I Built My Own Metrics.In Part 10, I added structured logging and request IDs. I could now trace a single request through my entire backend — every log line tagged, searchable, debuggable in seconds. But I still couldn't answer basic questions: How many requests did /entr...00