The newbie cloud architect diary

Time series databases (TSDB) are optimized for storing and processing large amount of telemetry data with regards to time and measurement dimensions. The weekly mood Even if I am not yet much involved or my team not always able to contribute, I know there is definitely a lot happening in our overall architecture.  While I sometimes have the impression that our management "only" reacts to market and customer demand, individual teams are definitely striving for Innovation under the hood.  Design Thinking I heard that one team adopted  Design Thinking via the  Double Diamond  design process model from the British Design Council . In this divergence-convergence model, the first Diamond is usually triggered by a problem and sets the focus on ideas via a Discovery and a  Definition phase, whereas the second Diamond sets the focus on solutions via a Development and Delivery phase. The crossing point of the two Diamonds is called the Design brief , ...

Provisioning, operating and maintaining distributed apps requires fine grained capacity planning, objective definition and consumption monitoring. The daily mood We had an interesting meeting with the team about API security, then I had my 1-1 with my Manager. He suggested that I move from tutorial applications to real world applications when evaluating Helm chart composition tools like Helmfile, Kustomize, and others. Which I will probably start with tomorrow. In the mean time I am also ramping up on  observability , or the practice of designing systems and applications with the perception that someone needs to watch them.​ As a growing provider of Platform services, our R&D organization must obviously care about monitoring resource metrics and component logs, but it's easier to say than to do. We define 3 levels of observability: Foundation supports better operations Core supports better usability Intelligence supports better automation This post talks about monitoring in ...