During our Activate presentation, we talked about how to do query expansion by dynamically generating synonyms. Instead of statically defining synonyms lists, we showed a demo of how you could use word2vec to derive synonyms from a dataset. Before we start, check out a useful Solr Cheat Sheets to guide you through Solr and help boost your productivity and save time.
CFEngine 3.12.0 introduced the augments key to the Augments file format. If you are not already familiar with Augments, check it out. It’s a very easy way to define classes and variables very early during agent execution, before policy.
AppDynamics surveyed 6,000 global IT leaders about application performance monitoring and AIOps. Read on to discover the trends shaping the space.
We’re back with another giveaway, and this time it includes every icon released by Amazon in their AWS Architecture Icon PowerPoint deck. You can find the original deck here. The link below provides an svg file for every service and resource icon provided by Amazon in the PowerPoint file each grouped by the service category. That is a total of over 300 icons for you to use when creating your architecture diagrams, in SVG format so you never have to worry about size or screen resolution.
With technology’s unrelenting advance, the evolution of the digital workplace has unarguably entered the fast lane. Microsoft – which provides critical digital workplace solutions through their Windows OS – is no exception. Indeed, end users indispensably depend on Microsoft’s range of workplace services to achieve everyday tasks – from simple log-ins to advanced programming – putting them at the front lines of any new updates and modifications.
Not too long ago in the Sensu Community Slack, the question: “Why Sensu instead of Nagios?” arose. Specifically, “How do I convince my boss to choose Sensu over Nagios?” I responded to the thread, but decided it was worthwhile to share my response with the wider community. At Willis Towers Watson, we moved from Nagios to Sensu 1.2 almost a year ago (and now we’re upgrading to Sensu Go).
It’s hard to find time for DevOps in a startup when there’s so much else to do. Having a great idea is cool, you may already carved a plan, maybe even practiced some pitching and basically started working, you should be focusing on developing your product and doing that alone.
The Grafana Labs team converged on Seattle this week for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2018 where we announced a new Prometheus-inspired, open source logging project we’ve been working on named Loki. We’ve been overwhelmed by the positive response and conversations it’s sparked over the past few days. Please give it a try on-prem or in the cloud and give us your feedback. You can read more about the project, our motivations, and check out the presentation in the blog section below.
Don’t you just love getting last-minute feedback from your boss right before your deadline? What about combing through a deluge of irrelevant-but-weighty comments from coworkers who aren’t even working on your project?
Thought you could wind down for the change freeze? Sorry, we’ve got one last thing for you to do: Upgrade StackStorm to 2.10! Orquesta is now ready for almost all workflow use-cases. We’ve also done a big update to our ChatOps internals, and we have early-access Ubuntu 18 + Python 3 packages (for test only!). Read on for full details.
