Marco Pracucci

Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs.

I love challenges, building products, distributed systems and all things observability.

Previously: lead SRE at Voxnest, co-founder and CTO at Spreaker.

I'm quite active on Twitter.

Upcoming conferences

Incontro DevOps 2020	Virtual	22 October 2020

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• Being a Grafanista: a look from inside

  30 Aug 2020

• The path to being an Effective Engineer

  24 Jul 2020

• Leveraging Open Source to Improve Cortex and Thanos

  15 Jul 2020

• Grafana Loki: like Prometheus, but for Logs

  24 Mar 2020

• Lessons learned running AWS Cloud Map service discovery for EC2 instances

  28 Jun 2019

• Keeping risk under control while experimenting

  18 Apr 2019

• Growing an AWS EBS RAID 0 array, increasing volumes size

  18 Apr 2019

• Kubernetes Security: book review

  27 Jan 2019

• PHP on Kubernetes: application logging via unix pipe

  24 Jan 2019

• My take on the future of applications development and operability

  27 Dec 2018

• PHP realpath cache and Kubernetes secrets / configmap updates

  24 Dec 2018

• Announcements during AWS re:invent 2018 - Andy Jassy Keynote

  28 Nov 2018

• Kubernetes pods /etc/resolv.conf ndots:5 option and why it may negatively affect your application performances

  10 Aug 2018

• Install Spark JobServer on AWS EMR

  23 May 2018

• KubeCon Europe 2018 - Memo and Takeaways

  05 May 2018

• Linux TCP_RTO_MIN, TCP_RTO_MAX and the tcp_retries2 sysctl

  27 Apr 2018

• Migrating to Prometheus: what we learned running it in production (the video)

  26 Feb 2018

• How to set connection timeout on PostgreSQL connection via PHP PDO pgsql driver

  17 Jan 2018

• AWS re:invent 2017 annoucements

  29 Nov 2017

• Migrating to Prometheus: what we learned running it in production

  23 Nov 2017

• Kubernetes RBAC with kops

  14 Nov 2017

• PostgreSQL 10 and PGDay.IT

  23 Oct 2017

• Rounding values in Prometheus alerts annotations

  09 Oct 2017

• Stepping back from CTO and jumping into operations

  05 Oct 2017

• KubeCon 2017 - Prometheus Takeaways

  01 Apr 2017

• KubeCon 2017 - Kubernetes Takeaways

  31 Mar 2017

• Best gzip compression with grunt-contrib-compress

  10 Feb 2017

• Gmail ignores media queries if the CSS size is greater than 16KB

  20 Jan 2017

• X-XSS-Protection in the wild

  18 Jan 2017

• Prometheus: understanding the delays on alerting

  16 Nov 2016

• Chrome 54 introduces BroadcastChannel API and Spreaker is already using it

  19 Oct 2016

• IP-based GeoLocation with AWS Lambda and API Gateway

  22 Aug 2016

• Graceful shutdown of pods with Kubernetes

  19 Aug 2016

• Display the current kubectl context in the Bash prompt

  18 Aug 2016

• Spreaker BBQ Sauce Recipe

  29 May 2016

• Spreaker Retreat, Spring 2016: Wrap-Up

  23 May 2016

• Avoid karma tests running twice on autoWatch

  13 Apr 2016

• Samsung SmartTV error 1145401: Terms and Conditions

  23 Feb 2016

• Auto-Login from Native apps to Web

  21 Dec 2015

• The unsurprisingly great Spreaker retreat

  13 Dec 2015

• Distributed Matters Conf: Takeaways

  22 Nov 2015

• Chrome changes "HTTPS with mixed content" icon and add Security tab to DevTools

  14 Oct 2015

• Electron? It works for us, and makes desktop fun and fast

  12 Oct 2015

• Who are we developing for?

  01 Oct 2015

• Electron - Slow performances in background

  23 Sep 2015

• New Chrome security policy: powerful features will be removed on insecure origins

  15 Sep 2015

• Copy the text selection to Clipboard, using Javascript

  15 Sep 2015

• Electron - Open DevTools in a popup

  02 Jul 2015

• Compile ffmpeg libs on Windows with Visual Studio compiler

  30 Jun 2015

• Rename multiple files on Mac

  23 Jun 2015

• Chrome Android 44+ introduces a new "related apps" banner

  18 Jun 2015

• Facebook Open Graph - Query image by username no longer available

  13 Jun 2015

• Electron - Enable copy and paste

  13 Jun 2015

• 5 features you didn't know about Chrome DevTools

  10 Jun 2015

• Statsd Client for Node.js

  09 Jun 2015

• Electron - Signing a Mac Application

  07 Jun 2015