5 meetings. 1 month. From introductions, to a demo, and ultimately winning Dukaan over. Subhash and his team’s velocity on decision-making, moving fast, and radical candor, is a breath of fresh air...

We discuss our journey from aggregate dashboards to smart anomaly detection with a view on top of our whole infrastructure.

Observability is not just about being able to ask questions to your systems. It's also about getting those answers in minutes and not hours.

TL;DR: A stitch in time, saves 9. A discussion on the key blocks of observability.

What in the world is Cricket Scale? What challenges do SRE teams run into to manage it? And how does Last9 help them?

One of the many pitfalls of friction between engineering and business is the lack of fundamental measurements on the health of engineering. But how does business measure engineering efficacy, and how...

Gone are the days of yore when we named are our servers Etsy, Betsy, and Momo, fed them fish, and cleaned their poop.

We're in a peak tech winter. What should engineering teams focus on when product velocity dwindles?

High Cardinality data plagues most modern infrastructure. It’s among the prime reasons why monitoring the performance of software is broken. But what is High Cardinality? Why is it so hard to solve...

The comprehensive audit validates Last9 as a trusted SRE partner; a crucial process to work with highly regulated industries.

In the early days of Google, a lot of users were asking for 30 results on the first page of search results. So after long deliberation, Marissa Mayer, then the Product Manager for google.com, decided...

How does one ‘detect change’ in a complex infrastructure, so you don’t lose out on critical revenues — A short SRE story

Explaining Reliability Engineering to a 5-year-old.

Pulumi or Terraform?How much and what all to automate?Automated vs automatic?Ansible or K8s?Serverless or needless?Speaker Piyush Verma, co-founder of Last9 ...

The current tech winter has a number of glaring stories – cyclical as they may be, there’s one truth that’s been gleaned over more than the rest; the money spent on internal software tools to support...

Managing your own time series database is painful. We’ve moved from servers to services, and yet, monitoring metrics data is primitive. Our managed time series database powers mission-critical...

Declare, Plan, and Emit

Chef or Ansible? Terraform or Pulumi? Python or Ruby? Last9 or Last9? What if we told you that the mindset of building new tools has an age old link to the story of a horse who could do arithmetic?

What is OpenTelemetry? Why is it important? Do SREs need to adopt OTel? An Explain It Like I'm 5.

A simple guide to crunch numbers for understanding overall HTTP content length metrics.

Fulfill all your food delivery orders this December 31st by taming High Cardinality data with Levitate 😉

How Levitate helps reduce Monitoring costs by reining Cardinality and eliminating the toil of managing a TSDB while helping scale business growth

Last9 builds cloud native monitoring tools.

From the trenches at Games24x7 — Sanjay, on how Reliability engineering should drive core business metrics

The Reliability podcast aims to speak with engineers who have worked on large, complex systems and glean through their learnings. What best practices should ...