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Observability, monitoring and incident response in practice.

Incidents

How to reduce your on-call team’s MTTA and MTTR

Incident response metrics reveal where your operation loses time. A practical guide to speeding up detection and resolution.

Jul 8, 2026 7 min
Case Studies

How Technium gained full visibility with Elven

A real case of operational transformation with end-to-end observability.

Jul 5, 2026 5 min
Incidents

Hotfix vs. Patch: when is each one the best solution?

The difference between a hotfix and a patch, when to apply each one and how to fit both into the incident response process.

Jun 18, 2025 4 min
Monitoring

How to build a high-performance NOC for 24/7 monitoring

Processes, tools and on-call schedules to set up a NOC that keeps operations running 24 hours a day.

Jun 11, 2025 6 min
Observability

Log Management for lean teams

How to structure log collection, retention and search in small teams, gaining visibility without inflating costs.

May 28, 2025 5 min
Monitoring

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) in practice

What an APM monitors, which signals to track and how continuous monitoring sustains high availability.

May 21, 2025 4 min
DevOps & Delivery

Rollback: how to revert problematic deploys

How to plan and execute a safe rollback to undo a problematic deploy without impacting end users.

May 14, 2025 4 min
Observability

Interoperability: why it is crucial for your infrastructure

Why systems that don’t talk to each other are costly in a distributed operation, and what changes with open standards.

Feb 21, 2025 6 min
DevOps & Delivery

Team Topologies: boost your DevOps team’s efficiency

The four team types and the three interaction modes — and how to apply Team Topologies to platform teams.

Aug 10, 2022 6 min
DevOps & Delivery

Kubernetes: security and efficiency in support of the SRE pillars

What Kubernetes gives SRE practitioners for free, and what remains the team’s job.

Mar 31, 2021 9 min
Observability

What distributed tracing is and why you should consider it

What problem tracing solves in microservices and how OpenTelemetry became the instrumentation standard.

Mar 2, 2021 5 min
DevOps & Delivery

Resilience Matrix: what it is and how it drives your product

How to classify the criticality of each component of your product — and what to do with that map afterwards.

Jan 29, 2021 8 min

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