devops
As mentioned in my previous post, I have long been looking for a centralised solution for collecting logs and monitoring metrics. I think my search was unsuccessful since I was looking for too many things in one solution. Instead I found now two separate solutions, one for log management (using
devops
I have been looking around for an easy to use and reasonable priced solution for managing logs distributed among many servers and system metrics for these servers. I had a brief look into setting up an ELK system but I found that looked quite cumbersome. Recently I came across Graylog
git
Some time ago, I have written an article about how to set up versioning for WordPress using git. I now came across an article by Newt Labs which have created an infographic about the justification for using git for WordPress. I think this infographic is quite insightful, so I will
maven
I cannot count the times I have looked up the following through Google. Thus I decided to put together a few handy parameters (or properties or whatever is the correct term) for Maven builds. All the below are given with the goal install but they can safely be used with
programming
Today I came across a nasty error which occurred in a deployed Java application only but not during development or integration tests. The error went something like the following: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: java.nio.ByteBuffer.rewind()Ljava/nio/ByteBuffer; at nx.serializerkryo.internal.InternalKryoSerialzer.performToStream(InternalKryoSerialzer.java:33) at nx.
I find that developer documentation is often not very pleasant to look at and, more importantly, often very difficult to navigate. I worked briefly with the PayPal REST API and, while I found that at times it can be confusing to deal with the numerous APIs PayPal offers, aesthetically their
jenkins
Since I plan to set up a continuous integration server in the near future, I had a quick look around for open source and cloud-based solutions; my main concern was finding something which will work for a small scale project and result in reasonable costs. Jenkins (Open Source) The best
devops
I set up a Jenkins server on a brand new Centos 7 VPS. In the following the instructions for doing this in case you are looking at doing the same: Setting up Jenkins Server * Install OpenJDK Java sudo yum install java-1.8.0-openjdk * Add Jenkins Repo and install Jenkins sudo
devops
Today I was looking for a simple way to test the latency and bandwidth between two Linux servers. The easiest way, of course, is to just use ping. The ping utility should be available on almost any Linux server and is extremely easy to use. Just login to one of
I want to start a new category of articles for this blog where I record web or user experience design I come across and which impresses me. I will start today with the homepage of Squarespace. Since they are a web design company, good design can be expected of course.
metrics
I have been looking around for a while for a cloud-based service which allows collecting logs and metrics and analysing them. I am particularly interested in a solution which can be deployed for free for smaller applications/amounts of data. Here are some of the solutions I came across: Loggly
productivity
I've long been looking for a tool that allows me to plan tasks, manage them and track time for myself and for a small team. Unfortunately, I have not been very successful thus far to find a effective, robust and affordable solution for this. The latest setup I