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Why SLOs Matter
Why SLOs Matter
SLOs help SREs triage incidents by setting a clear standard of operational quality. SLOs can be effectively met with runtime control.
Christoph Kassen
Jun 20, 2022
Four SRE Tools Everybody Needs
Four SRE Tools Everybody Needs
SREs need to quickly understand what is going on and respond to issues as they arise. This is best done by controlling behaviors at…
Tobias Kunze
Jun 6, 2022
Real-time Notifications via PagerDuty
Real-time Notifications via PagerDuty
A well-integrated set of tools is essential for SREs. In this post, we show how Glasnostic events can be turned into PagerDuty alerts.
Christoph Kassen
Apr 4, 2022
To Shed or Not to Shed
To Shed or Not to Shed
We are comparing LinkedIn’s Hodor load shedder against Glasnostic’s agentless and more finely-grained approach to managing capacity issues.
Tobias Kunze
Mar 14, 2022
Code Is No Longer Enough: Why You Need Runtime Control
Code Is No Longer Enough: Why You Need Runtime Control
Running cloud-native applications successfully requires more than just code. It also requires the ability to control at runtime.
Christoph Kassen
Feb 28, 2022
Dependencies: Here Be Monsters
Dependencies: Here Be Monsters
The dependencies of modern, cloud native environments create unpredictable “monsters” that can be slain effectively with runtime control.
Christoph Kassen
Feb 14, 2022
Runtime Control: Why I Joined Glasnostic
Runtime Control: Why I Joined Glasnostic
Christoph Kassen shares why he decided to leave AWS to become our CTO and how his work with customers aligned him with Glasnostic’s vision.
Christoph Kassen
Jan 24, 2022
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Shifting Your Mindset
Shifting Your Mindset
Emily Omier and I talk on her “Business of Cloud Native” podcast about sales, management and transitioning from engineer to founder.
Tobias Kunze
Dec 6, 2021
Announcing Glasnostic for Azure Gateway Load Balancer
Announcing Glasnostic for Azure Gateway Load Balancer
With the launch of Azure GWLB today, users can provision their applications with Glasnostic’s observability and control in seconds.
Tobias Kunze
Nov 1, 2021
Operational Monsters in the Cloud
Operational Monsters in the Cloud
Mike Valladao and I talk on Gigamon’s “Navigating the Cloud” podcast about monsters in cloud operations and how to rein them in.
Tobias Kunze
Oct 25, 2021
Announcing Glasnostic for AWS Wavelength
Announcing Glasnostic for AWS Wavelength
Glasnostic for Wavelength enables customers to continually optimize application latencies within zones as well as across zones and regions.
Danial Faizullabhoy
Sep 15, 2021
The Cloud Management Maestro
The Cloud Management Maestro
In this episode of Alexander Ferguson’s UpTech Report, we talk about my founding journey and topics such as funding and market timing.
Tobias Kunze
Jul 12, 2021
Getting Your Head in the Cloud
Getting Your Head in the Cloud
In this episode of Alexander Ferguson’s UpTech Report, we talk about how cloud complexity affects application reliability and operations.
Tobias Kunze
Jun 28, 2021
Reducing Operational Complexity
Reducing Operational Complexity
In this “Future of Biztech” episode, J.C. and Tobias talk about the motivation behind Glasnostic, today’s market and plans for the future.
Tobias Kunze
May 17, 2021
Bringing Glasnostic’s Observability and Control to Modern Kubernetes Operations
Bringing Glasnostic’s Observability and Control to Modern Kubernetes Operations
Glasnostic for Kubernetes lets operators observe and control how applications interact. As a result, they can create resilience and assure…
Danial Faizullabhoy
Mar 15, 2021
Resilient Applications: Why They’re Critical
Resilient Applications: Why They’re Critical
Transcript of Matt Wolach’s “Saas-Stories in the Making” podcast, where we talk about resilience in large-scale cloud operations.
Tobias Kunze
Mar 8, 2021
Rabbit Hole or Control? A Tale of Two Timelines
Rabbit Hole or Control? A Tale of Two Timelines
When disaster strikes, we often hunt for a “root cause.” What if we could remediate — detect and respond in real-time — instead?
Tobias Kunze
Feb 15, 2021
Simplifying the “Ops Equation”
Simplifying the “Ops Equation”
Cloud-native architectures are prone to application behaviors that can’t be addressed with more capacity. They require real-time control.
Tobias Kunze
Jan 4, 2021
Cloud-Native Environments: Predictions for 2021
Cloud-Native Environments: Predictions for 2021
Five predictions of how cloud-native environments will fundamentally change in 2021. Here’s to an exciting and promising year!
Tobias Kunze
Dec 21, 2020
2020 Ops Incidents: The Year in Review
2020 Ops Incidents: The Year in Review
We review some of the more notable outage post-mortems of the year and look at what we can learn from them for 2021.
Tobias Kunze
Dec 14, 2020
Kindergarten Ops: How to Control Application Behaviors
Kindergarten Ops: How to Control Application Behaviors
The unpredictability of today’s complex service landscapes requires operators to control how applications interact, in real-time.
Tobias Kunze
Dec 7, 2020
The Two Axes of Observability
The Two Axes of Observability
Because complex and dynamic environments fail due to unpredictable service interactions, traditional observability is no longer enough.
Tobias Kunze
Nov 30, 2020
Microservice Routing
Microservice Routing
Transcript of my episode on Jeff Meyerson’s Software Engineering Daily podcast about microservices, traffic control, observability and…
Tobias Kunze
Nov 23, 2020
Bringing Glasnostic’s Traffic Control to AWS Gateway Load Balancer
Bringing Glasnostic’s Traffic Control to AWS Gateway Load Balancer
Glasnostic for AWS’s Gateway Load Balancer lets customers with complex and dynamic VPCs provision traffic control with a single click.
Tobias Kunze
Nov 9, 2020
From Development to Mission Control
From Development to Mission Control
Transcript of a “Digital Anarchist” episode about why architecture is obsolete and why Mission Control is the future of DevOps.
Tobias Kunze
Jul 13, 2020
Controlling the Digital Landscape
Controlling the Digital Landscape
Transcript of my episode on the “Adventures in DevOps” podcast about how we can control today’s rapidly evolving digital landscapes.
Tobias Kunze
Jun 29, 2020
DevOps Shorts: Nurture over Nature in Software
DevOps Shorts: Nurture over Nature in Software
I had the pleasure of being the inaugural guest on Ant Weiss’ new “DevOps Shorts” podcast. Here is the transcript, edited for clarity.
Tobias Kunze
Apr 20, 2020
From Peak to Peak: A Tale from the Trenches
From Peak to Peak: A Tale from the Trenches
Joep recounts the incidents he faced while leading cloud transformation at a Dutch retailer and argues for mission control in operations.
Joep Piscaer
Mar 19, 2020
“Thundering Herd” or Sound of Customers?
“Thundering Herd” or Sound of Customers?
It was not a “thundering herd” that brought down Robinhood. It was the inability to read golden signals and apply operational patterns.
Tobias Kunze
Mar 2, 2020
To Boldly Go: Mission Control For Microservices
To Boldly Go: Mission Control For Microservices
When enterprises move to microservices, teams are left with a landscape of services that needs to be run with a mission-control mindset.
Tobias Kunze
Sep 23, 2019
Chaos Engineering in Organic Microservice Architectures
Chaos Engineering in Organic Microservice Architectures
Chaos engineering is essential for resilient distributed applications, but organic architecture needs real-time cloud traffic control.
Tobias Kunze
Sep 2, 2019
Complex Emergent Behaviors in Organic Microservice Architectures
Complex Emergent Behaviors in Organic Microservice Architectures
Emergent behaviors are complex interaction patterns that can cause significant harm to organic architectures and thus need to be…
Tobias Kunze
Jul 8, 2019
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