OpenTelemetry in Action: Optimizing Database Operations
May 02, 2022 · 14 min read
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.
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OpenTelemetry in Action: Identifying Database Dependencies
May 01, 2022 · 12 min read
Microservices can help any organization achieve its goal of increasing agility by addressing critical factors such as improving team autonomy, reducing time to market, cost-effectively scaling for load, and avoiding complete outages of the applications. As organizations break their monolith applications into microservices, one of the major hurdles they encounter is identifying database dependencies. Database sharing can be a complex and time-consuming challenge to solve. Databases do not allow you to define what is shared and what is not.
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