4 Pillars of Observability As systems grow in complexity, performance issues creep into application over time. Debugging such issues is often difficult as these are the result of amalgamation of multiple causes. Observability plays an important role in pinpointing these causes. Traditionally, there are 3 pillars of observability: logging, tracing, and metrics. The 3 pillars…
Explanation of how DDL in Waiting for table metadata lock status caused the table to be locked.
Scheduled batch jobs are convinient, but has it’s own challenges. Explore shortcomings of scheduled task and investigate alternetives.
At the project I’m currently working on, I encountered a issue where it would take roughly 20 minutes to test, build, and publish the project. Since every engineer does this at least a couple of times a day, it is a huge pain point and a waste of time. Determined to resolve this, I set…
