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Small PRs ship faster - QED

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Instrumenting at 10 years per second

How we made custom instrumentation blazing fast, simple, and data-centric

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Order matters - making a compound index 50x faster

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Dear Editor: We need better Database Observability

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3 reasons traces are better than metrics for debugging your application

Introduction Today I'll talk about the superiority of traces for understanding your system state and investigating problems. Traces excel at debugging your application due to several inherent properties. The granularity of traces provides a distincti...

Aug 14, 20245 min read

Tests you love to read, write and change

Enhancing test longevity and maintainability through centralized abstractions and focused tests

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Automated telemetry capture via Python bytecode modification

The pursuit of capturing application telemetry automatically

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That time PostgreSQL said "no thanks, I don't need your index"

Explore our journey of optimizing PostgreSQL queries: from stubborn index rejections to achieving a 70x speed improvement with strategic adjustments

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Solving like Sherlock: A 15 minute case with Observability

A story of how better Observability reduced our investigation to a mere 15 minutes.

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Observability improvements for the curious newcomer - Part 1

Introduction Observability is a great vehicle for lowering the bar to understanding and supporting production systems for all, regardless of company or professional tenure. A system that emits enough useful and thoughtful telemetry enables system com...

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