As a follow-on to Why Your Monitoring Is Lying To You. How is it that you can have an application go through a whole test phase, with two-day-long load tests, and have surprising errors when you go to production? Well,…
As a follow-on to Why Your Monitoring Is Lying To You. How is it that you can have an application go through a whole test phase, with two-day-long load tests, and have surprising errors when you go to production? Well,…
Bruce Rayner from Enterprise Efficiency did this nice writeup on how we leveraged the IT expertise within our company to jump start our SaaS product development here at NI. Our whole team except for our manager worked at some point…
In my Design for Failure article, I mentioned how many of the common techniques we use to allegedly detect failure really don’t. This time, we’ll discuss your monitoring and why it is lying to you. Well, you have some monitoring,…
We have had some interesting internal discussions lately about application reliability. It’s probably not a surprise to many of you that the cloud is unreliable, on a small scale that is. Sure, on the large scale you use the cloud…
