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…

Since my last post about a book I read about Ansible (yes sorry… Anible again), I thought I was done with this subject and I knew all that was needed to know about Ansible (in theory at least), well I was a bit wrong. While what I already read was…

If your answer is yes, the IBM “Build Lab” team (the team I’m part of) provides an end-to-end solution which make it easy to deploy and use a fully operational NLP solution in just an hour. And this solution could be used right away. …

It’s been a while since I was looking for a real good read on Ansible, fortunately I came across two books.