Tech Tools
This tool is commonly used to manage customer relationships and track sales opportunities.
What is SalesForce?
Observability focuses on understanding this aspect of a system to improve performance and reliability.
What is system behavior or health?
This 1990 film features a young boy defending his home from burglars during the holidays.
What is Home Alone?
This planet is the closest to the Sun.
What is Mercury?
This artist is known as the "King of Pop."
Who is Michael Jackson?
This observability platform provides full-stack monitoring and troubleshooting for cloud-native environments.
What is Splunk Observability Cloud?
These three pillars are considered foundational to observability.
What are metrics, logs, and traces?
This 2003 film stars Will Ferrell as a human raised by elves at the North Pole.
What is Elf?
These tiny organisms are responsible for the majority of oxygen production on Earth.
What are phytoplankton?
The largest planet in our solar system.
What is Jupiter?
This tool automates the deployment of applications across containers.
What is Kubernetes?
This type of monitoring predicts potential system failures before they happen.
What is proactive monitoring?
This is often contested as whether or not it should be included in this category
What is Diehard?
This element, found in table salt, has the chemical symbol "Na."
What is sodium?
This band is famous for albums like Abbey Road and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Who are The Beatles?
This scripting language is popular for automating system tasks and configuring infrastructure.
What is Bash?
This visualization tool is used to track key performance indicators across an application’s lifecycle.
What is a dashboard?
This animated film based on a Dr. Seuss book features a green character who tries to steal Christmas.
What is the Grinch Who Stole Christmas?
This term describes animals that can live both on land and in water.
What are amphibians?
This genre of music originated in the Mississippi Delta and influenced rock and roll.
What is the blues?
This developer tool provides version control to collaborate on software projects.
What is Git?
This term refers to tracing the flow of a request as it moves through a distributed system.
What is distributed tracing?
This 1983 holiday film is narrated by an adult reflecting on his childhood Christmas and features a famous scene with a leg lamp.
What is A Christmas Story?
This scientist formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation.
Who is Isaac Newton?
This Nobel Prize-winning scientist developed the theory of relativity.
Who is Albert Einstein?