Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed with IBM watsonx Code Assistant What is IBM Watsonx? Watsonx is an AI and data platform with three core components and a set of AI assistants designed to help you scale and accelerate the impact of AI with trusted data across your business. The core components…

My first experience in writing a sample code in Python to make cloud drawings! Usually, when I intend to build professional drawings for my projects, I use ‘draw.io’ (https://app.diagrams.net/) which I find a fantastic tool. It could be used either online or as a desktop application and the available shapes…

In my previous articles, I discussed an OpenTelemetry metrics reception on an Instana backend through a bastion “Instana Agent” machine. As a reminder, OpenTelemtry uses both gRPC and HTTP protocols in order to send metrics and traces. Once an “Instana Agent” is installed on a server and the configuration.yaml file…

This is the 2nd part of OpenTelemetry trace export to an Instana back-end series of articles. The previous article discussed a simple use-case of Instana / OpenTelemetry Integration for Go Applications. The current article is a demonstration of more complex, enterpise/production oriented usage. How to gather OpenTelemtry Metrics in Instana with ‘no’ Instana agent on your ‘production’ infrastructure

Instana / OpenTelemetry Integration for Go Applications

I wrote my own Exel to JSON file converter! For my current project using IBM Watson Assistant, I needed to import a big number of JSON files containing dialogs/intents/keywords… into my WA instance.

The first step to becoming CKA/CKAD? — Okay, I’m not a certified Kubernetes administrator nor a certified Kubernetes application developer (yet), but for sure I intend to become certified in one of those… one day. Meanwhile, I took the time to read the “Becoming KCNA Certified” book published by Packt Publishing, and I really loved it. First…

Last year, I passed the very first Azure certification with the support of some excellent online courses I used. This year I plan to pass another Azure certification. I am working in parallel on two different Azure certifications; the DevOps one is one of them. In addition to the online…

The book “Edge Computing Systems with Kubernetes” was on my top priority reading planned for this year, and now it’s done :) First disclaimer: I didn’t go throug all the practical stuff which is described in this book (to be honest :) ) BUT I did do the the first…