Genevieve Cross
By: Genevieve Cross

September 22, 2025 6:36 am

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Which Kubernetes Metrics Should You Be Tracking?

Kubernetes metrics provide critical visibility into cluster health, resource utilization and application performance. Understanding which metrics to track helps IT operations teams identify bottlenecks, optimize resource allocation and maintain reliable containerized workloads. This comprehensive guide explores the essential Kubernetes metrics you should monitor, why collection is challenging and how to implement effective monitoring strategies for […]

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Genevieve Cross
By: Genevieve Cross

August 16, 2025 7:51 am

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Implementing Observability Solutions in Legacy Systems

Legacy systems form the backbone of many enterprises, powering critical business operations that companies depend on daily. However, integrating modern observability solutions with these older infrastructures presents unique challenges that IT operations teams must navigate carefully. This guide provides comprehensive strategies for overcoming integration hurdles and successfully implementing observability in legacy environments.   Why […]

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Genevieve Cross
By: Genevieve Cross

August 15, 2025 6:27 am

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Log Aggregation: Understanding How It Works and Why You Should Use It

Modern IT systems generate a constant stream of diagnostic, security and performance data. Capturing and interpreting these records is essential for maintaining reliability, meeting compliance goals and staying ahead of emerging operational risks. Log aggregation plays a central role in the interpretation step. Without aggregation, enterprises can collect logs, but they can’t interpret or […]

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Genevieve Cross
By: Genevieve Cross

July 25, 2025 6:58 pm

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MTTD: An In-Depth Overview About What It Is and How to Improve It

What Is MTTD? Mean time to detect, or simply MTTD, is the average time it takes to discover an incident that led to a failure. In other words, it's the number of hours spent between a failure happening and its discovery.  Software engineers make use of metrics to measure how well they're performing. There […]

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Genevieve Cross
By: Genevieve Cross

July 22, 2025 7:00 am

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SIGKILL vs SIGTERM: A Developer’s Guide to Process Termination

As developers, managing how your applications shut down or handle interruptions is crucial, especially when dealing with Linux systems, containers or Kubernetes. Understanding the different signals that can terminate a process is essential for maintaining smooth and predictable application behavior.   In this blog, we’ll explore two of the most important signals—SIGKILL […]

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Genevieve Cross
By: Genevieve Cross

March 21, 2025 6:00 am

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Mastering Kubernetes node management with the `kubectl cordon` command

For many developers and engineers, Kubernetes is the de facto choice for container orchestration. That’s primarily because of its efficiency in handling and scaling container workloads. However, the complexity of managing nodes in a Kubernetes cluster can cause recurring headaches for even the most experienced and skilled IT teams.  This is where kubectl […]

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Genevieve Cross
By: Genevieve Cross

March 21, 2025 5:33 am

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What is topology?

Imagine you’re planning a road trip and you open Google Maps to get a bird’s-eye view of your route. You see how different towns, roads and highways are interconnected, giving you a clear and comprehensive view of your journey. In the world of IT, topology serves a similar purpose. It’s a visual […]

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Genevieve Cross
By: Genevieve Cross

March 21, 2025 12:15 am

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What Is Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Why Do You Need It?

In the world of IT, it's all too common to see teams applying quick fixes without addressing the underlying issues. This is where root cause analysis (RCA) comes in. RCA is the process of identifying the fundamental source of IT issues. The goal is to resolve the problem at its core, rather than applying temporary […]

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Genevieve Cross
By: Genevieve Cross

March 21, 2025 12:02 am

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What is telemetry and why is it important?

Properly leveraging telemetry is a true game-changer for any IT department looking to optimize and stabilize its systems. Telemetry provides the first step to answering the all-important question, “What’s happening in my network?” It’s your eye into the inner workings of your system, giving you a view into how different components […]

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