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  1. 01PlanetScale · scaling

    Handling hot shards

    Growing applications often encounter hot shards when certain tenants or data subsets outgrow initial sharding strategies based on workspace IDs. To mitigate this, teams can scale up resources, isolate large tenants into specific key ranges, or fundamentally change the shard key for problematic tables based on access patterns. Neki facilitates these adjustments by allowing declarative data topologies and online resharding without downtime.

    DEPTH ■■■■■7 min read3 weeks ago

    MySQLPostgreSQL

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  2. 02Stack Overflow · practice

    Taking a look under your agent’s hood

    This post discusses the challenges and methods of applying observability to AI agents, which combine traditional distributed systems telemetry with new requirements for monitoring LLMs and multi-step tool calls. The discussion highlights how non-deterministic agent behavior and increased speed of execution make continuous production feedback loops essential for upstream development. Ultimately, integrating observability data into automated testing and development loops helps teams iterate on agent performance.

    DEPTH ■■■■■25 min read2 weeks ago

    Machine LearningObservability

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