In order for fleet managers at Daimler Truck to manage the day-to-day operations of their vast connected vehicles service, they use tb.lx, a digital product studio that delivers near real-time data along with valuable insights for their networks of trucks and buses around the world. Each connected vehicle utilizes the cTP, an installed piece of technology that generates a small mountain of telemetry data, including speed, GPS position, acceleration values, braking force and more.
Grzegorz Piechnik is a performance engineer who runs his own blog, creates YouTube videos, and develops open source tools. He is also a k6 Champion. You can follow him here. From the beginning of my career in IT, I was taught to automate every repeatable aspect of my work. When it came to performance testing and system observability, there was always one thing that bothered me: the lack of automation. When I entered projects, I encountered either technological barriers or budgetary constraints.
Technical folks in OSS communities often find themselves in permanent learning mode. Technology changes constantly, which means learning new things — whether it’s a new feature in the latest OSS release or an emerging industry best practice — is, for many of us, simply a natural part of our jobs. This is why it’s important to think about how we learn, and improve the skill of learning itself.
Anthony Leroy has been a software engineer at the Libraries of the Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) since 2011. He is in charge of the digitization infrastructure and the digital preservation program of the University Libraries. He coordinates the activities of the SAFE distributed preservation network, an international LOCKSS network operated by seven partner universities.
We’re excited to announce the Metrics Endpoint integration, our agentless solution for bringing your Prometheus metrics into Grafana Cloud from any compatible endpoint on the internet. Grafana Cloud solutions provide a seamless observability experience for your infrastructure. Engineers get out-of-the-box dashboards, rules, and alerts they can use to visualize what is important and get notified when things need attention.
