Causality
Why Standalone Docker Matters: 4 Patterns Every Scalable Architecture Should Consider
This post explores four architecture patterns where standalone Docker is not only justified but recommended.
DevOps & SRE
Blog
Demystifying Automatic Instrumentation: How the Magic Actually Works
Most developers use automatic instrumentation without knowing how it actually works. This post breaks down the key techniques behind it—not to build your own, but to understand what’s really happening when things "just work."
Blog
How We Used Causely to Solve a Crashing Bug in Our Own App—Fast
At Causely, we don’t just ship software – we run a reasoning platform designed to detect, diagnose, and resolve failure conditions with minimal human intervention. Our own cloud-native application runs in a highly distributed environment, with dozens of interdependent microservices communicating in real-time. It’s complex, dynamic, and constantly evolving—
Blog
Eating Our Own Dog Food: Causely’s Journey with OpenTelemetry
Implementing OpenTelemetry at the core of our observability strategy for Causely’s SaaS product was a natural decision. This post shares context on our rationale and how the combination of OpenTelemetry and causal reasoning underpin our platform.
DevOps & SRE
Ep15 - Ask Me Anything About DevOps, Cloud, Kubernetes, Platform Engineering,... w/Endre Sara
In this DevOps Toolkit episode, Endre Sara joins Viktor Farcic for an Ask Me Anything session.
Blog
Using OpenTelemetry and the OTel Collector for Logs, Metrics, and Traces
This production-focused guide offers an understanding of what OpenTelemetry is, its core components, and a detailed look at the OTel Collector.
Causality
In 2025, I resolve to make my application environment more resilient
By identifying potential risks in real time, predicting future demand, and adapting resources dynamically, teams can maintain reliability even under extreme conditions. This isn’t about eliminating unpredictability; it’s about building systems that respond intelligently to it.
DevOps & SRE
In 2025, I resolve to be proactive about reliability
Making changes to production environments is one of the riskiest parts of managing complex systems. In 2025, let's transform how changes are made, empowering teams to anticipate risks, validate decisions, and protect system stability—all before the first line of code is deployed.
Causality
In 2025, I resolve to eliminate escalations and finger pointing
Explore the challenges of multi-team escalations, and the capabilities needed to address them. We’ll show how observability can be transformed to make escalations less contentious and more productive.
Causality
In 2025, I resolve to spend less time troubleshooting
SREs and developers can make troubleshooting more manageable in 2025 by adopting systems that solve the root cause analysis problem.
Media Article
The O11ys 2024 – The Winners!
Read the Observability 360 announcement of all The O11ys 2024 winners. Best Use of AI Winner: Causely Many observability systems now claim to support Root Cause Analysis. At the same time though, most of these systems use algorithms – admittedly, advanced…