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Beyond Green Lights: Why Monitoring Fails and Observability Saves Your Weekend

· CoolVDS Team

Monitoring tells you the server is down. Observability tells you why the database latency spiked 500ms before the crash. We explore the transition from reactive Nagios checks to proactive tracing, focusing on the specific infrastructure requirements needed to support high-cardinality data in 2019.

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Escaping the Lambda Trap: Building a Private Serverless Architecture on KVM

· CoolVDS Team

Public cloud serverless functions promise scale but deliver cold starts and unpredictable bills. Learn how to architect a private serverless platform using OpenFaaS and Docker on high-performance NVMe VPS infrastructure for total data sovereignty in Norway.

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Kubernetes Networking Deep Dive: Escaping the Overlay Tax

· CoolVDS Team

A battle-hardened look at K8s networking performance in 2019. We dissect CNI plugins, kernel tuning, and why the underlying hardware determines whether your cluster flies or crawls.

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Stop Guessing: A Battle-Hardened Guide to APM and Infrastructure Visibility in 2019

· CoolVDS Team

Is your application slow, or is it the network? In this deep dive, we move beyond 'top' and implement a full Prometheus + Grafana stack on Ubuntu 18.04. We analyze disk I/O latency, debug MySQL bottlenecks, and explain why hosting location in Norway matters for your metrics.

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Observability vs. Monitoring: Why Your Green Dashboard Is Lying to You

· CoolVDS Team

It's 2019, and 'green' dashboards don't mean happy users. We dissect the critical shift from passive monitoring to active observability, covering the ELK stack, Prometheus, and why high-cardinality data demands the NVMe performance found in CoolVDS infrastructure.

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API Gateway Tuning: Squeezing Milliseconds Out of Nginx & Kong on Linux

· CoolVDS Team

Default Linux settings are killing your API performance. In this deep dive, we strip down the kernel, optimize Nginx upstreams, and discuss why hardware isolation matters for low-latency implementations in the Nordic region.

coolvds.com › Blog › DevOps & Infrastructure

Observability vs Monitoring: Why Green Dashboards Lie (And How to Fix It)

· CoolVDS Team

It is April 2019. Your Nagios checks are green, but customers are churning. We dissect the critical difference between monitoring uptime and observing system behavior, featuring Prometheus, ELK, and the infrastructure required to run them.

coolvds.com › Blog › Performance Optimization

Tuning Nginx API Gateways for Sub-Millisecond Latency: A 2019 Guide

· CoolVDS Team

Default configurations are killing your API performance. We dive deep into Linux kernel tuning, Nginx upstream keepalives, and why NVMe storage is non-negotiable for serious workloads in the Norwegian market.

coolvds.com › Blog › Security & Compliance

Docker is Not a Security Strategy: Hardening Containers for Production in 2019

· CoolVDS Team

Default Docker configurations are a security nightmare waiting to explode. We break down how to lock down your container infrastructure, navigate Norwegian GDPR requirements, and why strict kernel isolation on CoolVDS is your last line of defense.