Nov 10, 2025 · 10 min read · Why do some QA teams consistently deliver reliable and high-quality software, while others toil to identify bugs and experience unstable releases? The real difference often is related to how easily the team is able to use software testing metrics to ...
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Nov 7, 2025 · 9 min read · If you’ve ever deployed an application to production, you know the sinking feeling that comes with a PagerDuty alert at 3 AM. It’s not the alert itself that hurts, it’s the uncertainty. What went wrong? Is it the database? The network? A slow API? A ...
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Oct 14, 2025 · 6 min read · When you first start blogging, it’s easy to focus on what feels exciting: writing new posts, designing your site, and watching the first few visitors trickle in. But as time goes on, you might find yourself wondering, “Is this actually working?” That...
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Sep 11, 2025 · 4 min read · Introduction: Why Metrics Matter Imagine you’re running an API for an e-commerce checkout system. Users are complaining that "checkout feels slow." Your dashboard shows CPU usage is fine. What’s wrong? Without metrics, you’d be guessing in the d...
Join discussionSep 11, 2025 · 4 min read · Introduction: Why Logs Matter Imagine you’re running a Payment API. Metrics tell you: “Error rate = 5% in the last 10 minutes.” But metrics don’t tell you why. To debug, you need logs — the detailed “story” of what happened inside your system. Lo...
Join discussionSep 11, 2025 · 4 min read · Introduction: Why Metrics & Logs Aren’t Enough Imagine you’re debugging a checkout flow in an e-commerce system: Metrics say latency has spiked. Logs show database timeouts. But you don’t know: Which request was slow? Which service in the chain ca...
Join discussionApr 20, 2025 · 8 min read · In cloud-native environments, it's crucial to have visibility into your services' performance and behavior. OpenTelemetry provides a standardized framework for collecting traces, metrics, and logs, which can help you monitor the health of your applic...
Join discussionMar 11, 2025 · 5 min read · Introduction In Part 5, we implemented the tracing in userd & orderd services. In a distributed system, tracing helps follow a request's journey across services, while metrics play a crucial role in observability by providing visibility into system b...
Join discussionMar 5, 2025 · 6 min read · Objective We recently implemented a data export feature that allows users to retrieve specific reports by selecting an option via radio buttons. To assess the feature's adoption and understand user preferences, we needed a way to track how often user...
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Jul 6, 2024 · 4 min read · Monitoring distributed applications and resources can be daunting due to their complexity, data overload, and the limitations of traditional monitoring tools designed for physical silos. To address these challenges and move from merely identifying fa...
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