Understanding cardinality is crucial for building effective observability systems. This concept, borrowed from set theory, directly impacts the performance and cost of your monitoring infrastructure. ...
Understanding how to configure dimensions in OpenTelemetry’s SpanMetrics connector is crucial for creating effective, efficient metrics from spans. This guide explains the fundamental concepts and best practices for avoiding common pitfalls like cardinality explosion. ...
Rising Infrastructure Quality with YAML & JSON Schemas If you work in operations, DevOps, or platform engineering, you’re probably drowning in YAML files. Kubernetes manifests, Ansible playbooks, GitLab CI configurations, Helm charts—the list goes on. These YAML files control everything from cluster management and configuration to CI/CD pipelines and application deployments. But here’s the problem: YAML is notoriously forgiving. A typo, a missing field, or an incorrect indentation might not show up until you try to apply that configuration—and by then, it’s often too late. This is where JSON schemas come in, even though you’re working with YAML. ...
Exploring Kargo.io as a GitOps deployment platform - from its impressive ArgoCD integration to the challenges that keep it from being enterprise-ready. A practical guide for platform engineers considering their next deployment tool.