June — Northern summers, southern winters

We’re 6 months into 2024. This is the time to revisit those resolutions, and maybe give em another go. It’s a good time to reset, rethink and recharge in so many ways. Naaah? Let me persuade you further; June is the beginning of Summer in the Northern hemisphere, with the most hours of daylight, and the opposite for the southern hemisphere. What better way to get that resolution list out and start ticking off things on your list? It’s a time reset! Tell me what your new goals are. Mine? I want to start doing more cold showers and calorie counting from today. ??

Talking about time, a bunch of us have been traveling this month for different conferences across the world. We were in Singapore for SREcon, New York for Qcon, Portland for Monitorama, pheww!

We wanted to tell everyone who cares to hear that we can reduce your o11y metrics costs by 50%, and you should talk to us. If that’s intriguing enough, you should talk to us.

Interesting stories that caught our attention

Ever wondered what ‘Grafana’ means?

Well, apparently it’s a made-up word! Whaaaaa! ????

• From 600ms to 300ms faster - Reducing Wikipedia’s Total Blocking Time. here
• We’ve been talking a lot about scale. Stumbling on s3 scale is fascinating. here

This bit explaining org heirarchy and Conway’s law, is hysterical ?????

There’s a best practices guide from OpenAI on making more out of your prompts. here

From our stables

• The bossman spoke at Monitorama this month, and has a nice post around how we can Levitate your Observability woes. Do check here
• We have a page dedicated to comparing different TSDBs. We’ll be adding more articles to it soon! here
• Everything you need to know about OpenTelemetry here
• How do you manage High Cardinality metrics in Prometheus here
• But, before that, what even is High Cardinality? here | If you want a simpler ELI5 on High Cardinality - here

And that’s a wrap on this month’s edition!

Oh, before I forget, we have a Substack featuring ‘A day in the life of an SRE.’ Lots of stories from folks and what they’re up to. Do check it out - here

You can also join our?Discord, where we hang out with like-minded SREs and DevOps folks to discuss all things Observability and Reliability. We call it the?Last9 of Reliability ??

P.S. Our T-shirts and stickers are getting a lot of love. Want one? We’ll select a few and ship some merch. Leave a comment ??