Which application metrics should you track? I frequently engage with customers that are amid breaking their monolithic applications into smaller microservices. Many teams with also see this migration as an opportunity to make applications more observable. As a result, customers inquire which metrics they should monitor for a typical cloud…

One of the key features that containers offer us is the ability to apply resource control through Control Groups, generally referred to as cgroups. Containers, which build on top of Linux cgroups, allow us to run process that have limited access to host’s total capacity. This ability allows us to…

If you want to know the cost of running Amazon EKS nodes, AWS Cost Explorer is your friend. AWS Cost Explorer helps you analyze your AWS bill. Cost Explorer has an easy-to-use interface that lets you visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time. Cost Explorer supports…

A few months ago, someone asked me the best way to connect services running in different Amazon EKS (EKS) clusters running in two different VPCs. Thinking about connecting network resources across AWS VPCs reminded me of the early days of AWS when you needed to implement a complex hub and…

Can you guess what the top New Year’s resolution for 2022 was? If you guessed getting fitter, you guessed it right. Every January, the internet gets plastered with memes about people getting gym memberships only to give up going to the gym after a few weeks. One of the primary…