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DockerCon Europe 2017: Trip report

DockerCon Europe 2017 was held on October 16-18 in Copenhagen, and guess what ?! It was awesomely amazing. This was my first time at DockerCon, I had lot of fun with my fellow Amine hakkou, learned many new things, made a list of some very cool open source projects to check,

import kibana dashboards and visualization using groovy

Kibana is a the official visualization tool for elasticsearch. But sooner or later, you want it or not, you'll need to migrate your kibana dashboard and visualizations. Kibana already offer a tool to do this, using the export/import buttons, but I've two issues with this approachL 1- If the

What do skydiving and building a tech community have in common

Since I was a boy, I always dreamed of parachuting and this crazy free fall from sky to earth. Do You still remember Google IO 2012 Opening keynote where they did a great google glass demo ?! I do, and for the past 5 years I watched it from time to

Spring Boot metrics monitoring using elasticsearch and kibana

One of the most frequently mentioned challenges related to the creation of microservices based architecture is monitoring. Each microservice should be run on an environment isolated from the other microservices, so it does not share resources such as databases or log files with them. Spring Boot provides actuator to monitor

Using Redis as Buffer in the ELK stack

Redis, the popular open source in-memory data store, has been used as a persistent on-disk database that supports a variety of data structures such as lists, sets, sorted sets (with range queries), strings, geospatial indexes (with radius queries), bitmaps, hashes, and HyperLogLogs. Today, the in-memory store is used to solve

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