An Observability Balancing Act With GitOps

As companies intensify their push toward adopting DevOps practices and cultural values, there are several practical methodologies cropping up. One such concept is GitOps, which stems from the DevOps need to automate everything and the philosophy of you build it you run it.

The fear of losing out to the competition warrants the need to be agile which then leads to a retrospective of how teams and organizations are getting code from ideation to production. DevOps! The motivation is simple: The faster the release, the more chances of securing the survival of your product in the fast-paced world of technology. 

Monitoring and Profiling Your Spring Boot Application

Monitor and profile your Spring Boot application!
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Monitoring is very essential for modern applications, modern applications are highly distributed in nature and have different dependencies like database, service, caching and many more. It’s more of a like service mesh, tracing and monitoring these services are very essential to adhere to SLA (Service Level Agreement). SLA is an agreement between client and server, It accounts for reliability, responsiveness and other service-level metrics.

We always tend not to violate any SLAs, violating any part of the SLA can have many consequences. If a service fails to meet the terms defined in an SLA, it risks brand reputation damage and revenue losses. Worst of all, a company may lose a customer to a competitor due to its inability to meet a customer’s service-level requirements.