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Dec 8, 2025 • 17 min read

Service Dependency Mapping: Problems and Solutions

Identify hidden dependencies, stale maps, and async tracing blind spots in microservices — and fix them with tracing, service meshes, and AI tools.

Terry Osayawe

Complete Guide to Application Observability for Startups

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Dec 5, 2025 • 21 min read

Complete Guide to Application Observability for Startups

Practical observability for startups: logs, metrics, traces with OpenTelemetry, cost-saving sampling, AI-driven detection, and CI/CD integration.

Terry Osayawe

7 Best Practices for Root Cause Analysis in Production

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Dec 3, 2025 • 18 min read

7 Best Practices for Root Cause Analysis in Production

Practical RCA steps for production: define clear problems, collect logs and traces, map events, prioritize fixes, and validate changes with monitoring.

Terry Osayawe

What Are Live Breakpoints and How Do They Work?

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Dec 1, 2025 • 22 min read

What Are Live Breakpoints and How Do They Work?

Live breakpoints let you debug production apps without pausing them by injecting lightweight instrumentation that captures snapshots of variables, call stacks, and context.

Terry Osayawe

Production Debugging Checklist for Small Dev Teams

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Nov 28, 2025 • 18 min read

Production Debugging Checklist for Small Dev Teams

Small dev teams need a clear production debugging playbook — structured logs, focused alerts, fast triage, tracing, fixes, and post-mortems to prevent repeat outages.

Terry Osayawe

Application Monitoring vs Observability: Key Differences

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Nov 26, 2025 • 17 min read

Application Monitoring vs Observability: Key Differences

Explore the key differences between application monitoring and observability, and learn how they work together to enhance system reliability.

Terry Osayawe

5 Ways to Debug Production Apps Without Redeploying

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Nov 24, 2025 • 12 min read

5 Ways to Debug Production Apps Without Redeploying

Explore five innovative ways to debug production applications in real-time without redeploying, ensuring smooth user experiences.

Terry Osayawe

Tracekit - Lightweight Application Performance Monitoring (APM) platform with distributed tracing.

Tutorials

Nov 22, 2025 • 11 min read

Go Observability: Complete Guide for Production Applications

Go observability is essential for building reliable production applications. Whether you’re building REST APIs with Gin, microservices with gRPC, or data-intensive applications with GORM and…

Terry Osayawe

Tutorials

Nov 21, 2025 • 11 min read

Code Monitoring: Debug Production Without Stopping Your Application

Code monitoring revolutionizes how you debug production applications. Instead of stopping your application, redeploying with debug logs, or reproducing issues locally, code monitoring lets you…

Terry Osayawe

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