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Published in Snowflake

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Why Observe Chose To Build On Snowflake

And the long and winding road we took to get there. — Observe, The Genesis Few things were certain in late 2017 when our founders, along with investors at Sutter Hill Ventures, embarked on a journey to build a different kind of observability product. One thing we did know was that the three pillars model of Observability was dead — or at least dying. At…

Observability

9 min read

Mar 10

Why I Joined Observe, Inc.

A SaaS Love Story — A little less than a year ago I had a comfortable career as a DevOps Engineer working for a large multinational corporation, work I cared about, and a team of people whom I’d do anything for — the pay wasn’t so bad either. I enjoyed writing code, designing immutable architecture…

Startup

5 min read

Mar 24, 2020

Back Up Your Ghost Blog with Google Drive

Introduction I recently set up a new blog using the Ghost blogging platform on a self-hosted AWS EC2 instance. With many thanks to my years of experience as a DevOps Engineer, I was able to set up a snapshot policy to fully back up the drive of the instance each night…

Backup

5 min read

Published in The Startup

·Mar 16, 2020

The Ultimate [Free] Jamstack

Introduction As an aspiring freelance writer, and newly published author (Achieving DevOps), I had a real need to set up a writing portfolio to showcase my work. I knew I needed a place to host my website and a means by which to create it. …

Development

7 min read