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Posts in 2017
  • PNP4Nagios and Grafana

    Tuesday, February 21, 2017 in Insights

    Many Nagios folks use PNP4nagios to store performance data and draw graphs. Nowadays time series databases like Influxdb are quite trendy and have their own pros and cons. But In the end they visualize the stored metrics with Grafana which comes with …

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  • Getting Started with Java 9 Modules

    Monday, February 13, 2017 in Insights

    So, 2017 has arrived - this is the year when Java 9 will finally be released. And with it, the brand new module system called Jigsaw. In January, Marc Reinhold has announced that JDK 9 is feature complete, so we have every reason to be optimistic …

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  • Local Kubernetes Development with Minikube

    Friday, February 10, 2017 in Insights

    Getting started with Kubernetes can be intimidating at first. Installing Kubernetes is not the easiest of tasks and can get quite frustrating.1 Luckily, there is an out-of-the box distribution called Minikube which makes toying around with …

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  • Hamcrest - More readable Tests

    Tuesday, February 07, 2017 in Insights

    The probably best written tests are those which can be understood by anyone understanding some English, right? Hamcrest is an anagram of the word “Matchers” and a paradigm of encapsulating matching logic and corresponding error messages …

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  • FOSDEM Video: Implementing 'tail -f'

    Tuesday, February 07, 2017 in Insights

    At this year’s FOSDEM conference I did a 20 minutes presentation on how to implement tail -f in Go. The video is available below. Abstract: As part of a log file monitoring tool, I implemented a file tailer that keeps reading new lines from …

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  • Undertow - How to setup a HTTP server

    Tuesday, January 24, 2017 in Insights

    Undertow is an open-source lightweight, flexible and performant Java server, they say. I can confirm that it’s flexible: always feel free to provide your own implementations or use Undertow helpers to delegate usual server glue code to a more …

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  • Java aktuell - Automatisiertes Testen in Zeiten von Microservices

    Tuesday, January 03, 2017 in Insights

    Die Software-Entwicklung ist im Wandel. Immer schneller, immer häufiger, immer einfacher müssen neue Features in Produktion gebracht werden. Große, schwergewichtige Alleskönner werden durch mehrere kleine, individuelle Services ersetzt. Jeder …

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Posts in 2016
  • Open Monitoring Distribution 2016+ auf der OSMC

    Thursday, December 29, 2016 in Insights

    Kurz vor Ende des Jahres sind die Vortragsvideos der OSMC 2016 online verfügbar. Auch dieses Jahr war ich wieder Referent, diesmal mit einem Überblick über die letzten Entwicklungen von OMD, einige Umgebungen, in denen es eingesetzt wird und dem …

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  • Macht euch nicht in die Hosen

    Wednesday, December 21, 2016 in Insights

    Kürzlich wurden zwei Schwachstellen von Nagios veröffentlicht, u.a. bei [heise.de]. Wir verwenden Nagios als einen von mehreren möglichen Cores innerhalb des Monitoring-Frameworks [OMD]. Eine Gefährdung liegt nicht vor. Bei besagten Schwachstellen …

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  • Fosdem - Monitoring and Cloud Devroom

    Thursday, November 10, 2016 in Insights

    {% if page.language == “de” %} Auf der FOSDEM 2017 gibt es zwei DevRooms, bei denen ConSol-Mitarbeiter an der Organisatoren beteiligt sind. Monitoring und Cloud Devroom Containers und Microservices Devroom Für beide DevRooms gibt es einen …

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