Tag: Microservices

Logs to Unclog: The Complete Guide to Logging

Introduction to Logging

What Are Logs?

Logs are chronological records of events that occur within software applications, operating systems, and network devices. They serve as the digital equivalent of a ship’s logbook, documenting what happened, when it happened, and often providing context about why it happened.

Why Logging Matters

In today’s distributed systems and microservices architectures, logging is not just helpful — it’s essential. Here’s why:

  • Debugging: Logs provide crucial information for identifying and fixing bugs
  • Monitoring: They enable real-time monitoring of system health and performance
  • Security: Logs help detect security incidents and unauthorized access
  • Compliance: Many regulations require comprehensive logging for audit trails
  • Performance Analysis: They help identify bottlenecks and optimization opportunities
  • Business Intelligence: Application logs can provide insights into user behavior and business metrics

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Unlocking Enterprise Agility: A DevOps Journey to Success

Read this to equip yourself with the right DevOps knowledge needed to steer your enterprise toward increased agility, faster time-to-market and enhanced customer satisfaction.

Here, in this blog, we’ll navigate through the key pillars that underpin a successful DevOps expedition. From fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement to selecting the right tools and automating workflows, we’ll explore all the aspects. We’ll equip you with the right knowledge needed to steer your enterprise toward increased agility, faster time-to-market and enhanced customer satisfaction.

As we embark on this enlightening journey together, remember that DevOps is not just about technology—it’s about fostering a mindset of adaptability, collaboration and innovation. So, let’s dive into the world of DevOps and unlock the full potential of DevOps for your enterprise.

Benefits of DevOps

DevOps, short for Development and Operations, is a set of practices and methodologies that aim to enhance collaboration, communication and integration between software development and IT operations teams. The primary goal of DevOps is to enable organizations to deliver high-quality software more efficiently, reliably and quickly. Here are some of the key benefits of implementing DevOps practices:

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Learn the Importance of Namespace, Quota & Limits

Let’s start with a scenario, whenever any application builds, we generally do have 3 environments on the basis of resources – dev for developers resources, test for testers resources, and prod for production resources. Likewise, we used to have a separate IT-Operational Team having strategies to maintain their environment resources. It was very time-consuming and many human resources were required.

We are in the microservices era where we follow the DevOps Methodology. The DevOps Team brings all the environment and strategies to maintain resources in one go. Resources are the ones who decide the behavior of your applications. We can apply the criteria to resources, so how can our application behave? To do this we can give the name to our resources, we can give the resources quota to the application, and can give resource ranges to the application.

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Observability for Monitoring Microservices — Top 5 Ways!

Introduction

Knowing what’s running inside the container, how the application and code are performing is critical for tackling important issues. Discussed here are some important Microservices monitoring tools and approaches. Take a look!

With Microservices architecture becoming the de facto standard for web applications now, effective debugging and anomaly detection calls for a system that is observable — which means, the internal state of an application can be inferred by observing and tracking the metrics, traces and logs. Continue reading “Observability for Monitoring Microservices — Top 5 Ways!”

SOA vs. Microservices Architecture – The Much-Hyped Debate!

Introduction

The debate of “which is the right kind of software architecture?” has always been in the air. As a consequence, we do harbor doubts when it comes to picking sides or making decisions.

This blog is going to brush up on the basics surrounding SOA and Microservices Architecture.
Before we begin discussing the similarities and differences between SOA and Microservices Architecture, let us first understand – Continue reading “SOA vs. Microservices Architecture – The Much-Hyped Debate!”