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Observability Done Right: Best Practices and Anti-Patterns for Effective System Monitoring

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  WHAT Observability is a concept that refers to the ability to gain insights into the behavior and performance of complex systems. In the context of software engineering, observability involves the collection, analysis, and visualization of data from software applications, infrastructure, and other components of a system. In the animal kingdom, observability plays a critical role in survival, allowing animals to monitor their surroundings, detect threats, and find food. Dolphins use echolocation to observe their surroundings. They emit high-frequency sounds that bounce off objects, allowing them to create a 3D map of their environment. Thanks for reading Knowledge Cafe! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Subscribed WHY In today's era, architectures are becoming increasingly large, complex, and fast-paced due to the faster development and deployment of software by distributed teams with the help of DevOps, continuous delivery, and agile development methodo...
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Comparing gRPC and REST: A Look at Two Popular API Design Approaches

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  REST (Representational State Transfer) is a way to design APIs that is based on the principles of the World Wide Web. REST APIs use the HTTP protocol for communication and are designed to be simple, stable, and uniform. They use URLs that are passed out by the server and do not require clients to construct URLs from other information. REST APIs are characterised by their use of HTTP methods (such as GET, POST, PUT, DELETE) to manipulate resources and by their use of HTTP status codes to indicate the success or failure of requests. gRPC is another way to design APIs that uses HTTP/2 for communication. It is based on the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) model and uses code-generated stubs to make it easier for clients to use the API. What are advantages of gRPC over rest API? Performance : gRPC uses a binary format for data serialization, which is more efficient than the text-based format used by REST. This makes gRPC faster and more suitable for use in high-performance environments. Bi...
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