Fresh/Brewed

This is not a sharp picture - not even that good. I was flying early in the morning friday July 19th when I realized something was really wrong. The ticket counter was in a flurry of checking lists and creating paper tickets. I would learn within 30m that Spirit Airlines was SOL in the airport and the TSA was checking my paper ticket against printed manifests. I couldn't be prouder of my own teams at work for having dug in and weathered the Crowdstrike storm - it's a testament of having skilled, available and committed SREs. By the time I landed and was back at my desk to help, the main production systems were healthy. I can't really speak to the rest - but my day wrapped later than usual friday but it was an amazing team effort and really, I couldn't be prouder of the people I work with at WellSky

OS Apps: Dufs and Pastefy

Published Jul 4, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

Today we are going to talk about a couple of Open Source apps I recently came across, Dufs and Pastefy. Pastefy falls into the same camp as OpenGist or pastebin. It’s just a quick simple way we c...

ScrapingAnt and ScrapingBee

Published Jul 2, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

I think ScrapingAnt landed in my “things to check out” from a web advert. I recently had some cycles to signup and give it a go. I’ll explore the WebUI as well as using ScrapingAnt with curl.

Grafana Alloy with OTel, GKE and Datadog

Published Jun 27, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

Grafana rolled out Alloy, their OpenTelemetry Collector in May. Today we will set up a GKE cluster with ASM, however we will collect OTel traces using both the OTel GCP Cloud Trace collector and Al...

Grafana Alloy with OTel, Groundcover and NewRelic

Published Jun 25, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

Recently Grafana rolled out Alloy, their OpenTelemetry Collector.

OS Apps: Netbox, EncryptedNotepad2, and CryptPad

Published Jun 20, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

Today, we’ll look at a few apps that have been in my backlog to check out. The first is from Linuxserver and is Netbox. It’s a Datacenter management suite aimed to create a full site management p...

HedgeDoc: OS Documentation

Published Jun 18, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

I love new Documentation tools, especially when there are self-hosted and open-source. Today, we’ll look at Hedgedoc, which came out of CodiMD which itself came from HackMD.