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Preparing OTel Playground on microk8s: Part 2

Written by ramoska on May 09, 2024 in Web Development

To play around with OpenTelemetry I need some kind of playground. Now I need some testing application to instrument. For this I'm using Symfony app with monolog, some async messaging and database queries. Also while I'm at it I'll setup grafana with prometheus, loki, and tempo to use as backends for observability data.

Why use GraphQL?

Written by ramoska on January 01, 2024 in Web Development

Despite me having some strong reservations about GraphQL I'm actually suggesting we use it for our next project. Here's why.

OpenTelemetry: starting series

Written by ramoska on December 28, 2023 in Web Development

This is the first post in the series of posts about OpenTelemetry. In this entry I'm looking into what it is, why it should matter and how it could be useful for any application or system.

Create site with Writerside

Written by ramoska on November 13, 2023 in Web development

With this post I will be setting up Writerside and see what it can do, how site structure it offers, how customisable it is and could it work as blog engine for me.

Create blog site with Pelican

Written by ramoska on November 11, 2023 in Web development

With this post I will be setting up Pelican for the first time for blogging. I want to see how templating is working and how sites are built, how paths are defined, and how easy it is to tweak it to my liking.

Stick to Pelican or switch to Writerside

Written by ramoska on November 11, 2023 in Web development

After some time I decided to start writing blog. Again. Just as a way to document what I learned, what problems I dealt with, and have some sort of portfolio in case I get laid off again. Coincidentally, I found out about Writerside and decided to give it a try and see how it compares to my old setup.