If you’re a developer working on building software these days, it’s more than likely that you’ve considered using the microservice architectural pattern. With individual services that can be run and deployed independently of one other, this architecture is loosely coupled, fault-tolerant, and more easily scalable. Achieving these lofty goals requires a system that can support…
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In today’s world of software development, it can often be challenging to get the data and information we need from running applications. While the introduction of container orchestration frameworks such as Kubernetes has brought about new capabilities around scalability and fault tolerance of applications, it has also introduced challenges in understanding exactly what’s happening within…
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About a year ago, I was lucky enough to post an article at SCMag about Rookout’s journey to achieve SOC 2 compliance. Since then, I sat down with many engineering managers who had follow-up questions on the article. They wanted more details on the relationship with the auditors, the steps we took to control various…
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Log aggregation systems are awesome. They truly are. Being able to get any log I want from my servers with just a few clicks is not only fun but a huge productivity boost. I have all my logs in one place. All applications. Each microservice. Every load-balanced instance. The entire infrastructure. Plus, I can search…
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Recently, Michael Bolton wrote this awesome tip on twitter: And it got me thinking, how minor changes in the way we ask questions impact the answers we receive. As a company that offers developer-productivity tools that are often used for debugging, I’m surprised how frequently engineers and their managers underestimate the time and effort, blood…
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About a year ago, we raised our seed round of investment. By that time, we already had a promising sales funnel and our potential customers saw great value in the product. And yet, as we continued filling our pipeline with potential clients, it didn’t take long for us to realize security was going to be…
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Let’s face it: If you’re a developer, you spend a lot of your time logging. Today, as organizations are leaving on-prem servers behind and moving to containers and microservices, the importance of logging has grown. Finding the right logs is critical to understanding issues, fixing them and redeploying, yet searching manually through log data has…
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Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. You’re debugging a local app using your favorite IDE. You set a breakpoint, the code stops, and you look at the local variables. You get a sense of what’s going on, what has happened, and what should happen next. Then, you step forward to the next line…
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DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) and Google Cloud recently released the 2019 Accelerate State of DevOps Report. The report discusses four core DevOps key performance indicators (KPIs) for measuring change. For most of us in software engineering, especially in the era of “configuration as code,” change means “code change” and is about commits to some source control…
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Written in collaboration with: Or Weis In an ideal world, developers would not need to waste precious time writing countless log lines along with every few lines of code they create. We would instead be focused on building the best features we possibly can. In a perfect world, if a problem comes up and some…
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