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Elasticsearch and near realtime analytics

Recently, we got a request to create an analytics dashboard for the application's data we have. The data was stored within PostgreSQL and our initial…

Blackbox export of application metrics in Kubernetes using Grok Exporter and Prometheus

Intro In order to gain a better understanding of how our applications behave in realtime (more…)

Custom metrics with Micrometer And Prometheus using Spring Boot Actuator

Spring Boot Actuator includes a number of additional features to help us monitor and manage our application when we push it to production. (more…)

Importance and goals of filtering GTFS

Importance and goals of filtering GTFS One of the goals of this article is to introduce software developers to GTFS feeds, their structure, and the…

Challenges of testing a live app with millions of users

Software testing is not, nor it was ever expected to be, a strict discipline in the world of software development. While software development is continuously…

STOMP/ActiveMQ communication for Ruby/Rails applications

Introduction Using a messaging protocol to facilitate communication between different applications is nothing new, in fact it has been the defacto standard for fast and…