How to Track Down the Real Cause of Sudden Latency Spikes
Sudden latency spikes rarely have a single cause. This blog shows how to uncover the real source using traces, histograms, and modern debugging signals.
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Hidden Correlations Traditional Monitoring Misses
Last9 is built to work with high-cardinality telemetry, and we’ve been covering it in detail through our series. This piece looks at a familiar pain: issues that only show up for a specific tenant or deployment. Why does that context disappear in most monitoring setups?
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Helm 4 or Nelm? What's the difference
Helm 4.0.0 brought several new features to its users, such as Server-Side Apply support and kstatus-based resource watching.Nelm, an alternative to Helm created in werf, a CNCF Sandbox project, has been offering these capabilities even before. Nelm has many more new features for Kubernetes deploymen..
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Which Observability Tool Helps with Visibility Without Overspend
A detailed look at observability platforms so you can choose tools that keep visibility high and costs steady as your systems scale.
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🚀 RELIANOID at DevOpsDays Tel Aviv 2025
📅 December 11, 2025 • 📍 Tel Aviv, Israel What a week ahead! Our team is working full-throttle as we prepare to attend three major events in just a few days — and we’re thrilled to add DevOpsDays Tel Aviv to the list. We’ll be joining the community to share how RELIANOID helps DevOps and platform tea..
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OTel Updates: Unroll Processor Now in Collector Contrib
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Tesco’s latest outage is a reminder: uptime IS the customer experience.
Shoppers across the UK faced checkout failures, broken order updates, and Clubcard access issues as Tesco’s digital platforms suffered “intermittent” instability. In modern retail, even brief disruptions damage trust, loyalty, and sales. At RELIANOID, we help retailers stay resilient with intelligen..
At the heart of Flask are two libraries: Werkzeug, which is a WSGI utility library that handles the low-level details of communication between web servers and applications, and Jinja2, a templating engine that allows developers to write dynamic HTML pages with embedded Python logic. By combining these two, Flask provides a clean and pythonic way to create web applications without imposing strict architectural patterns.
One of the defining characteristics of Flask is its explicitness. Unlike larger frameworks such as Django, Flask does not try to hide complexity behind layers of abstraction or dictate how a project should be structured. Instead, it gives developers complete control over how they organize their code and which tools they integrate. This explicit nature makes applications easier to reason about and gives teams the freedom to design solutions that match their exact needs. At the same time, Flask benefits from a vast ecosystem of extensions contributed by the community. These extensions cover areas such as database integration through SQLAlchemy, user session and authentication management, form validation with CSRF protection, and database migration handling. This modular approach means a developer can start with a very simple application and gradually add only the pieces they require, avoiding the overhead of unused components.
Flask is also widely appreciated for its simplicity and approachability. Many developers write their first web application in Flask because the learning curve is gentle, the documentation is clear, and the framework itself avoids unnecessary complexity. It is particularly well suited for building prototypes, REST APIs, microservices, or small to medium-sized web applications. At the same time, production-grade deployments are supported by running Flask applications on WSGI servers such as Gunicorn or uWSGI, since the development server included with Flask is intended only for testing and debugging.
The strengths of Flask lie in its minimalism, flexibility, and extensibility. It gives developers the freedom to assemble their application architecture, choose their own libraries, and maintain tight control over how things work under the hood. This is attractive to experienced engineers who dislike being boxed in by heavy frameworks. However, the same freedom can become a limitation. Flask does not include features like an ORM, admin interface, or built-in authentication system, which means teams working on very large applications must take on more responsibility for enforcing patterns and maintaining consistency. In situations where a project requires an opinionated, all-in-one solution, Django or another full-stack framework may be a better fit.
In practice, Flask has grown far beyond its initial positioning as a lightweight tool. It has been used by startups for rapid prototypes and by large companies for production systems. Its design philosophy—keep the core simple, make extensions easy, and let developers decide—continues to attract both beginners and professionals. This balance between simplicity and power has made Flask one of the most enduring and widely used Python web frameworks.
