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Steve Newman / February 8

The Circle Expands Again…

It’s all about the data. Turns out it always was. When we started Scalyr, we initially focused on log analytics – providing engineering teams with a detailed, reliable view into their distributed systems. But our…
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Steve Newman / April 14

1000 Little Breakthroughs

How do you optimize a system by a factor of 100, when you already built it the best you knew how? In recent years, we’ve found ourselves in conversations with potential customers who would love…
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Erin Baez / May 5

Jaeger Tracing Tutorial: Get Going From Scratch

The Jaeger tracing system is an open-source tracing system for microservices, and it supports the OpenTracing standard. We talked about OpenTracing and why it’s essential in a previous post. So now, let’s talk more about…
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Erin Baez / May 4

Scalable Architecture: A Definition and How-To Guide

Software applications are more global than ever. A massive upswing in traffic is a lucky tweet away. For that reason, teams building platforms have to prepare to ramp up on short notice, and that means…
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Erin Baez / April 27

A Detailed Guide to Cloud Data Security

Cloud platforms have revolutionized the way organizations do business online. Over the years, most organizations have shifted to using cloud platforms for managing and housing their data. The shift from on-premises data storage environments is…
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Erin Baez / April 21

Grep an IP Address From a Log File: A Detailed How-To

You need to see who’s accessing your systems. This often means you have to grep an IP address from a log file. Grep is a command-line tool for searching text in files using regular expression…
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Erin Baez / April 20

Understanding Row- vs Column-Oriented Databases

Understandably enough, we want our databases to be fast. We want to select the most appropriate database for whatever we’re doing so that the queries we run will come back at speed. By changing the…
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Erin Baez / April 14

AWS Lambda With Python: A Simple Introduction With Examples

We’ve previously covered AWS Lambda using Java. Today, we’ll take a look at Python. If you’re unfamiliar with AWS Lambda, it’s not about the language feature in Python called lambda (anonymous functions). AWS Lambda is…
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Erin Baez / April 13

Column-Oriented Database Examples: A Helpful List

Column-oriented databases have seen a resurgence in interest in recent years. The first column-oriented databases appeared decades ago. However, they have never gained a lot of traction in the market. In recent years, though, big…
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Erik Dietrich / April 7

HTTP Monitor: What It Is and Why You Need It

One day, one of our main web APIs was down, and the first person that knew it was my boss. We were so worried about bringing the API up that we never paid attention to…
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Erin Baez / April 6

Big Data Cybersecurity: Why It Matters and How It Helps

Organizations today face an uphill battle against cybercrime. Attacks are rising in frequency and sophistication each year, with hackers increasingly targeting vulnerabilities in cloud systems and home networks. As such, executives across the board are…
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Erin Baez / March 31

Containers as a Service: A Complete Guide

Containers as a service (CaaS) is a type of service that allows organizations to manage containers more easily. CaaS can be implemented in a few different ways, but all of them have this in common:…
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