There has been a lot of movement around observability (more precisely system observability) in the DevOps world of late, which is nothing but a control system terminology for monitoring production systems. Here is a much-needed rant about it. So what is Observability? Observability is an attribute of a system that lets the users understand how “it… Continue reading
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The μ-services rant
The economy is powered by the bytes today and in byte economy, the cost of storage, network and compute power is rapidly declining. This trend has made quite a few feats viable in the recent years. Some of them aren’t completely new. “Big data”, “Fast data”, “IoT” and “Deep learning” are few to mention. Yet another trend byte economy created… Continue reading
What is so sexy about Unikernels ?
Unikernels (sounds almost like unicorns) are the newest advancement or the latest buzzword in the infrastructure virtualisation space to the say the least. Unikernel.org and Wikipedia offer great definitions for unikernels, but I felt stacking it against other virtualization techniques will be a good addition to those definitions. So, here is a quick comparison and a… Continue reading
NoSQL datastore for IoT
I recently answered “Which NoSQL DB is more advantageous for IoT data?” in quora. ” Let me answer the question in 2 different aspects: 1. Design and 2. Choosing 1. Design: The question: what kind of data store and an upstream system is warranted to back a large IoT (or even an Industrial IoT )… Continue reading