Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

As a follow up to my previous “personal policy” blog I have exciting news: An improved CFEngine is available for Termux!

With the evolution of technology in recent times, the face of communication is ever-changing. In today’s environment, failing to adapt to these changes would mean failing to understand what the customer needs. Since every organization is migrating to smartphones and tablets, and employees are starting to depend more on these mobile devices, we at the NetFlow Analyzer team decided to up our game in terms of our mobile offering.

Open source companies are amazing places to work for engineers. Your work is showcased to the world through private open source companies like GitLab and HashiCorp (makers of Terraform and Vault), and through public ones like Elastic, GitHub, and RedHat—all of which have enormous impact.

Open source grafana is one of the most popular OSS UI for metrics and infrastructure monitoring today. Capable of ingesting metrics from the most popular time series databases, it’s an indispensable tool in modern DevOps. This OSS grafana tutorial will go over installation, configuration, queries, and initial metrics shipping. Open source grafana is the equivalent of what Kibana is for logs (for more, see Grafana vs. Kibana).

After weeks of writing, researching and hopefully enough proofreading, we just launched a living collection of practical guides on leveraging headless browser tools (starting with Puppeteer and Playwright) for testing, monitoring, scraping, performance measuring and more. We called it theheadless.dev. This article is about the different approaches we tried in contributing ideas to the Puppeteer community, as well as the principles that guide our latest contribution.

Today, we hope to make testing Absinthe a bit easier for you. We believe that it’s a great library for writing GraphQL applications, but if you previously haven’t done much work on an Absinthe application, you might find some things a bit tricky to test.

As there are more advances in data use, businesses must ensure they’re delivering value by utilizing all data sources present in their environments. Irrespective of the source of data, be it operational or transactional systems, smart devices, social media, video, or text, it’s what the business does with the data available that determines its value strategy.