New Relic university for Observability education — What is New Relic (NR) and NR University (NRU) New Relic is a software analytics and performance monitoring platform that helps businesses monitor and optimize the performance of their applications and infrastructure, ensuring reliability, efficiency, availability, user experience and some other -ilities required for a software system to be well “observable”.

A non-exhaustive list for telemetry concepts — Preface The trigger for the following blogpost was pulled while looking for a new role in summer 2023. I realised companies were very interested in the topic, mainly because of the increased complexity in developed software and its underlying infrastructure on the cloud or on premises. Development teams needed more information…

DORA stands for DevOps Research and Assesment Recently, I had the opportunity to interview for a fascinating position focused on enhancing the engineering processes within an organization. I was particularly impressed to discover that the company embraces progressive concepts like DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment). My initial encounter with DORA…

Introduction High-level definition of log types Logs in a FinTech company aim for productivity and efficiency Conclusion The financial services industry has experienced rapid growth in recent years, with a surge in the number of FinTech companies. Along with this growth comes the increasing complexity of software systems and their…

My recent introduction with a new & efficient deployment method — I was recently introduced to serverless.com, the framework that allows developing and deploying securely and efficiently serverless applications. The definition on the website describes very well the concept. Develop, deploy, troubleshoot and secure your serverless applications with radically less overhead and cost by using the Serverless Framework. The…

Referring to the infrastructure secrets, not your personal ones :) — Introduction A security incident or breach can cause major problems to a company, for example, it can result in system failures and therefore massive recovery and operational costs. …

Weigh your pros and cons when deciding! — Back in the day Software deployment is the process of remotely installing software on multiple or all the computers within a network simultaneously, from a central location. In the past, the process was very manual and a user had to isolate and locate the software package (artefact) and transfer it to the required server…

Financial Operations (FinOps) is a culture that will help you creating cost awareness in your organisation! — Introduction Companies are moving their computing capacity to the cloud in order to benefit from the fact that the systems are managed (outsourced) by a 3rd party e.g. AWS, Azure, Google cloud etc. Efficient architecture is always the focus, however, due to a rush or uninformed decisions, various companies have been…

Critical thinking software professionals should adapt like chameleons! — I am a member of the greekdigitalcommunity.com, a greek speaking digital community, where software engineering, agile and designing professionals discuss everything about their ongoing work and share their thoughts about future concerns. A member asked the following question (translated from Greek): Question Good afternoon! I have a question and I would…