How Azure Data Explorer Helped Us Make Sense of 1M Log Lines per Second
As VP of IT at Taboola, my teams and I are overwhelmed with logs, pinned down by the rate and volume of them. The job of the Production Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team in Taboola is to keep the...
View ArticleStop reading, start talking. A new way to share knowledge.
Knowledge sharing is critical for every company that wants to grow and improve. The bigger the company – the harder it gets. Inefficiency, a lack of alignment within your peers, difficulty training new...
View ArticleVideo campaigns budget pacer
As a content discovery product, we need to be able to pace the campaign through its life on real time – spending the budget entirely without overspending. The team I am leading is responsible for...
View ArticleAnalog Clocks with NTP
Synchronized Clocks: Someone has to be blamed… I blame Ariel. He took one look at the five analog wall clocks set to timezones for various offices and said “I hate that”. I looked to see why. Yes,...
View ArticleStop waking up at night over MySQL replication
MySQL Slave Replication Optimization Written by Yossi Kalif & Ariel Pisetzky Replication keeping us up at night MySQL in Taboola So you love MySQL – what do you know, so do we here at Taboola. We...
View ArticleThat Moment
That Moment So, the firefighters are in your data center, there is no electricity, and the pager is more like a DDoS attack on your phone than anything informative. You look at your watch, multiple...
View ArticleRunning a Post Mortem Following “The Moment”
Failure. I need to talk about failure, and not any failure, my failure. I need to share it with everyone in the production group, everyone in R&D. My team, my peers, my managers. The meeting will...
View ArticleIf you fall, fall right – a tale of SRE critical incident management
If you fall, fall right – a tale of SRE critical incident management By Yehuda Levi, Tal Valani, Ariel Pisetzky & Eli Azulai Imagine this scenario – your data center is down. 1500 servers are down....
View ArticleDon’t just run DNS, run it FAST
By Ariel Pisetzky and Tarek Shama Taken for Granted Taken for granted. That’s the way most users and even techies think of DNS. Or more precisely, they just don’t think of it at all. DNS is one of...
View ArticleTEST in PRODUCTION – should you?
You wrote your code. You even tested it. And now, you are eager to git push it. But how can you verify that it really works? In Taboola, we test our code in production! In this article, you will see...
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