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Have you heard of a HDFS? A Hadoop Distributed File System?(HDFS) stores and manages big data. It works by splitting?large files?into smaller?blocks, around?128MB, and then replicating them 3 times on different nodes. Each node runs a background process called a?DataNode, which stores the block and talks to a?NameNode, the node that tracks all the blocks. A HDFS can scale to thousands of nodes and is great for availability because if one node fails, data is still available. Want to know more? Check out this 5-minute article. https://buff.ly/3Yh5GtS

Most developers know how to write logs, but few developers know how to write good logs. In this video, we go through 12 essential logging best practices that will transform how you write log messages in your applications. https://buff.ly/4i24yCq

- New this week ??: See all your metrics in one view ?? 1. See all your metrics in one view Today, we're introducing the Explore metrics dashboard! Want to know which metrics are actively used and which aren't? Want to know which metric has the most active series or data points? Explore metrics can answer those questions quickly. It's a unified view of all your collected metrics. It includes overview information about what source feeds into the metric, as well as all the queries, dashboards, and alerts where it's used. ?? 2. Track usage and properties of every metric Want to explore specific metric in more detail? Select the metric you'd like to explore. See the definition, available query options, count of data points and more. Have similar metrics? We automatically group metrics by name so you can see all connected metrics in one dropdown.

GitHub?supports over 200 programming languages and has over 330 million repositories. But it has a big problem. It stores?almost 19 petabytes of data which is lot. And?much of that data is unreachable; it's just taking up space unnecessarily. But with some clever engineering, the team were able reduce the size of specific projects by more than 90%. How? We've written a 5-minute article with all the details. https://buff.ly/40QcqRc

There are exactly 20 different ways to speed up a Node.js application, according to ChatGPT. And using Redis to cache results has to be the most popular. It's a fast database used by millions of apps, and it's easy to set up. So, if you want to speed up your Node.js app with Redis, here's our step-by-step guide on how to do it properly. https://buff.ly/4hPc03H

Docker desktop is great. But there's a super fast, feature-rich, and resource-efficient alternative called Orb Stack. Which you can learn all about it in our latest video. https://buff.ly/4evwqeV

Ever wanted to know how to use OpenTelemetry in your Node.js server? We've got you covered. Logs, Traces, and Metrics. Learn how to add them all in one comprehensive video. https://buff.ly/3YYxt2u

THINGS YOU CAN'T ASK A DEVELOPER – “Why can’t you just add this one little feature by tomorrow?” – “Couldn’t we just use WordPress?” – “Do you actually know what all those lines of code mean?” – “Why does it take so long to fix bugs?" – "Why?do?we?need to test it if it works on?your machine?"

THINGS?YOU?CAN SAY?AT?WORK BUT NOT USE AS BREAKUP LINES – "We might need to refactor our?approach." – "I think we need to deprecate this." –?"We have too?many?merge?conflicts." – "Let's?just revert to?the last?stable?version." – "We need to terminate this process - it's consuming too many resources."

- New this week ??: Translate your status pages ?? 1. Translate your status pages Today, we're introducing status page translations! This way, you can translate anything from the headings of your maintenance announcement to the subject of the automated status update emails your subscribers get.? You can pick from the ready-made languages or fully customize the translation yourself. ?? 2. Snooze alerts with the Wait until option in escalation policies Want to receive minor alerts during working hours only? Now you have even more options with the time-based rules in escalation policies. With the "Wait until" option, you can now snooze an alert until a specific time and only then continue to the next step of the escalation policy.