Prometheus Deep Dive Series: Intro

What is Prometheus If you’re an engineer working with Cloud technologies, chances are that you’ve already heard of Prometheus Prometheus is an Open Source monitoring tool. Its development started at SoundCloud and it has now evolved into being a go-to choice for metrics collection. I often relate its rise in popularity to its simple, gitops friendly configuration management, simple setup and modularity. Prometheus does a few things and does it well. While doing this, it does have some nice modularity as you can mix and match it with other tooling such as Grafana and Alertmanager. ...

December 31, 2019

Here's to the 2010s

Hello World! As we approach the end of the year, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on what I learnt in these 10 years leading to 2020. I must start off by saying its been such a roller coaster ride. Starting from the early 2010s where I was in ahem School (!) all the way up to now me sitting here in a cafe in my new home - Berlin. ...

December 31, 2019