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Codefresh in the Wild: building Pastr

This article is part of our series “Codefresh in the Wild” which shows how we picked public open-source projects and deployed them to Kubernetes with our own pipelines. We will use several tools such as GitHub, Docker, AWS, Codefresh, Argo CD, Kustomize. This guide chronicles how we integrated all those tools together in order to build an end-to-end Kubernetes deployment workflow.

6 Best Open Source Status Page Alternatives for 2024

With so much reliance on online services and applications these days, a status page is essential to a business, its support and IT teams. It’s a key component in your incident communication strategy. Communicating the status of your website or service to users (particularly customers) creates trust and keeps them updated—especially during downtimes. Plus, it saves you from sending out emails or using other time-consuming methods to provide status updates.

OpenTelemetry Flask Instrumentation Complete Tutorial

In this article, we will use OpenTelemetry to instrument a sample Flask app for traces. Flask is one of the most popular web application frameworks of Python. It consists of Werkzeug WSGI toolkit and Jinja2 template engine. Instrumentation is the biggest challenge engineering teams face when starting out with monitoring their application performance. OpenTelemetry is the leading open-source standard that is solving the problem of instrumentation.

Webinar | What's new with Aiven Q4 2023 - Q1 2024

During this webinar, our product team discusses: Speakers: Bob Krygowski | Product Director, Platform Filip Yonov | Product Director, Streaming John Kennedy | Product Director, Databases AIVEN DATA PLATFORM The Aiven Platform is more than a collection of open source services for streaming, storing and analyzing data. The platform ensures that all services run reliably and securely in the clouds of your choice, are observable, and can easily be integrated with each other and with external 3rd party tools.

Set up your data streaming infrastructure in 30 minutes

What can you do with data? Caching, processing, streaming, persistence... For its infrastructure, each of these components need: implementation, hosting, reliability and security. This is a lot of work and time, especially considering every project has specific requirements and specifications which translate into new data infrastructures. What if you could manage all of this in one unified platform? Watch the video and find out how with Aiven.

Aiven workshop: Search and aggregations made easy with OpenSearch and NodeJS

In this session you'll learn how to interact with the OpenSearch cluster with the help of OpenSearch NodeJS client - create an index, add documents, search and aggregate data. At the end we’ll visualise results with OpenSearch Dashboards and sink the data from Apache Kafka. Prerequisites: During the workshop you’ll create an Aiven account using the free trial.

Why companies migrate from OSS to Grafana Cloud for metrics management

In 2022, we introduced Grafana Mimir, the most scalable and performant open source time series database in the world. And since its launch, we’ve been busy, increasing Mimir’s scale, making it easier to get started, and boosting query performance. But even with these advancements, we understand the challenges that can come with a self-hosted and self-managed OSS tool.

Micrometer: The Gold Standard in Observability

In the dynamic realm of observability frameworks, one name stands out as the unspoken gold standard with the ability to guide developers through the intricacies of monitoring and data collection. Let’s look at the heart of open-source technologies and uncover the essence of a tool that has become the industry's beacon of excellence.