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System Design: Designing a Metrics Monitoring and Alerting System

System Design: Designing a Metrics Monitoring System Monitoring is the nervous system of any production infrastructure. A metrics monitoring system must ingest millions of data points every second, store them efficiently…

Apr 20, 20263 min read

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#system-design#monitoring#prometheus

System DesignAdvanced

System Design: Building a Metrics Platform Like Prometheus

Metrics platforms answer operational questions quickly: - Is error rate increasing? - Which service owns the latency spike? - Did a deployment change request volume? - Which tenant is causing the queue backlog? - Are we…

Apr 8, 202610 min read

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#system design#metrics#observability

System DesignAdvanced

Building Production Observability with OpenTelemetry and Grafana Stack

Observability is not the same as monitoring. Monitoring tells you something is wrong. Observability lets you understand why — by exploring system state through metrics, traces, and logs without needing to know in advance…

Jul 3, 20256 min read

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#observability#opentelemetry#prometheus

JavaAdvanced

Scaling Spring Boot Applications to Handle 10 Million Daily Active Users

10 million daily active users is not an exotic scale — it's where a successful mid-stage startup or a growing enterprise service lands. At this scale, the things that worked for 100,000 users start breaking in interestin…

May 28, 202510 min read

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#spring boot#java#scaling

DatabasesIntermediate

Time-Series Databases: InfluxDB vs TimescaleDB vs Prometheus

Time-series data is fundamentally different from general-purpose data: it arrives in time order, is queried by time ranges, has predictable decay in value, and has write patterns that overwhelm traditional relational dat…

Mar 29, 202511 min read

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#time-series#influxdb#timescaledb