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OpenTelemetry in Action: Optimizing Database Operations

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Many software developers can attest that some of the most significant issues in their applications arise from database performance. Though many developers prefer to use a relational database for enterprise applications, typical logging and monitoring solutions provide limited signals to detect database performance issues. Rooting out common bad practices such as chatty interactions between the application code and the database is non-trivial.

As developers, we need to understand how our database is performing from the context of user transactions. Ideally, we would have a common tool that can monitor the performance of both the application and the database concerning user transactions. OpenTelemetry has emerged as a popular tool for application monitoring, but it can also be extended for monitoring databases.

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5 Best Practices for Managing a Remote Engineering Team

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Managing a remote engineering team may not have topped your list of skills to acquire in 2020. However, the global pandemic made other plans for us this year. Remote work is now the new norm for software organizations, which is sending engineering managers scrambling to figure out what works best for communicating, collaborating, and coordinating from home. 

As luck would have it, I’ve become something of an expert at managing remote employees. My experience began in the early days of Bugsnag when my cofounder and I needed to hire engineers for our fledgling company. As San Francisco transplants, we had many roles to fill and wanted to take advantage of our networks back in the UK. In the end, we decided to build our company with an ocean and an eight-hour time difference between two offices.

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Application Monitoring with Spring boot Actuator

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Monitoring production is an important part of a software service provider. Many companies providing monitoring systems for maintaining the production environment. Spring Boot comes with different awesome modules that developers can easily configure and maintain development and production environments with. The actuator module provides production-ready features by which we can easily maintain the production environment. The actuator exposes JMX and HTTP endpoints.

Features

  • Endpoints: Spring Boot Actuator provides some default endpoints by which we can access application information. We can also monitor the production environment with those endpoints. Endpoints can also be accessed by third-party monitoring tools.
  • Metrics: We can access OS and JVM related information using spring boot actuator endpoints. This is very useful for runtime environment. Spring boot actuator provides this feature by integrating with micrometer application monitoring.
  • Audit: Spring Boot Actuator publishes events to  AuditEventRepository. Spring security by default publishes “authentication success,” “failure,” and “access denied” exceptions. This is a very useful feature for reporting and authentication failures. Auditing can be enabled by AuditEventRepository. By default, spring-boot provides InMemoryAuditEventRepository for auditing which has limited capabilities.
  • HTTP Tracing: Spring boot actuator also provides an HTTP tracing facility. If you want to use it you have to include web endpoint. Http tracing provides the information about request-response exchange.

Important Endpoints

Spring Boot Actuator provides the listed HTTP and JMX endpoint. We will discuss in detail later part of this article.

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