Earlier this year, we completed a migration to a new time series database (OpenTSDB) backed by a new datastore (Google Cloud Bigtable). There were many reasons for this migration but one of the main ones was to support a range of new features we wanted...

Peer review is a well established concept in the scientific world, leading to higher quality work, improvements to techniques and an avenue for individuals to learn by examining the work of others.
Following those ideas, code reviews are an important part of our approach to engineering at Server Density. With hundreds of teams relying on our product for mission critical infrastructure monitoring, it is important that we have a robust development...

HumanOps came from experience of Server Density’s team being on call. In the early years, I was on call 24/7 for long periods of time. As the team grew, we implemented policies and processes to help share the load and deal with the challenges of being...

When we were due to implement our Alert Costs feature we decided it was time to try out Redux on something real, over the Backbone models and collections we’d been using in the past. We’d heard about, and certainly wanted to benefit from, something that...