Smart systems, data analysis and software technology
This short story starts with an accidental discovery of how frequent Log4Shell attacks are executed against businesses and public internet services in general. During my daily work at Dynatrace I come to test a lot of software services along with closely observing those through the eyes of a monitoring platform vendor. I am running a […]
There are many reasons why I think that a Synology Diskstation NAS is a perfect all-in-one private cloud platform. It keeps your precious family photos and documents safely stored in a RAID system and it runs your local services as well as your home automation system. Therefore, my Synology NAS evolved into a critical backbone, […]
Getting insights into your users experience as well as into your real users behaviour is key within designing, implementing and delivering web applications as well as mobile applications. It’s common practice to monitor your web applications or mobile applications performance in production, to gain valuable insights about how well your application performs within your users’ […]
Developing and publishing mobile apps within global marketplaces such as iTunes or Play Store is a tough business, where many companies fail. The definition and monitoring of strategic targets by using service-level-objectives (SLO) helps to keep up stability and performance of your app and therefore safeguards your app revenue stream. Customer expectations concerning your app’s performance and reliability are […]
While designing the new generic Smartscape topology model in Dynatrace, I came across a tremendously useful 3D graphing project: force-3d-graph by vasturiano. Cudos to Vasturiano and his valuable contribution to 2D and 3D graph visualisation in JavaScript and within your local Browser. This library enabled the implementation of an Open Source 2D and 3D graph […]
Highly dynamic change in IT service topology is inevitable in modern automated deployment and delivery platforms such as Kubernetes (K8S). Tracing those micro-service IT service environments is hard to grasp for a human, as those traces and deployment stacks consists of millions, yes even billions of monitored entities. One of the unique benefits of rolling […]
Artificial-Intelligence and machine-learning models are trained, tested and used with their accuracy in mind and therefore its crucial to closely observe and monitor your AI model during the design phase. TensorFlow offers a convenient way to attach a TensorBoard callback hook to your machine-learning model to receive and visualise the training and test performance of […]
It’s common knowledge today that seamless monitoring and observability of all your production software stacks is key for successful service delivery. Along with a tight integration into your CI/CD pipeline, service and software monitoring offers a lot of insights on what is going wrong during your build, test and release workflows and how to quickly […]
When I came to play around with GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline framework recently, I could not believe how simple and effective that functionality is! It does not really matter, if you just want to automatically check each of your Git commits by using lint or to fully build your artefacts, GitHub actions allows you to […]
Dealing with data, statistics and visualization in my daily job and locked down at home through the governmental precautions, I thought I build a Covid-19 (Corona) virus information dashboard. The dashboard is built by using Johns Hopkins University (“2019 Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) Data Repository by Johns Hopkins CSSE”, you can download and review the […]