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Lambda functions require a different approach to monitoring - traditional methods (sampling or manual instrumentation) simply fall short for monitoring and tracing Lambda functions.

In another example of Instana using Instana for our own website, we discovered a Gatsby plug-in bug AND fixed it - mere minutes after 3 users began having an issue with our new docs site.

Part of our technical Education program, Instsana SRE Bastian Spanneberg discusses an important (but many times forgotten) art - achieving the necessary scale and performance at a more efficient (er,

Instana's InfoSec Manager looks at the EU-US Privacy Shield, why achieving compliance is important, and delivers the news that Instana is compliant.

Context Guide: When you're troubleshooting application issues you need immediate access to all dependent components including their health and KPIs

An article on the whys and hows of integration tests and how to automate them using the Testcontainers framework and Docker.

This is the fourth post in a series on the Life of an SRE at Instana.

Kubernetes has accelerated the complexity of software development. The industry needs observerability to manage these emerging systems.

Writing microservices is not only using frameworks, but using patterns like Circuit Breakers and Timeouts to secure communication between services. See the concepts and how they can be used together.

Writing software systems is easier than ever before. Resilient and fault tolerant systems, however, are still tricky. The major factor to keep in mind, to embrace that failures can and will happen. Re