VirtualTam's bookmarks

1. Time Series Benchmark Suite - A tool for comparing and evaluating databases for time series data 2025-03-30

   tags: database, database/postgresql, observability/time-series, observability/time-series/influxdb, performance/benchmark, programming/go, programming/sql

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   • TSBS Documentation
2. InfluxDB Tech Tips — Optimizing Flux Performance 2024-06-01

   tags: observability/time-series/influxdb

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   • Top 5 Hurdles for Flux Beginners and Resources for Learning to Use Flux
   • Top 5 Hurdles for Intermediate Flux Users and Resources for Optimizing Flux
   • Optimize Flux queries
   • Sort and limit data with Flux
3. Everything I need to know about Influxdb, Grafana and Flux 2024-05-04

   tags: observability/grafana, observability/time-series/influxdb, programming/python, programming/python/numpy

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4. How I keep myself Alive using Golang 2024-03-31

   tags: diabetes, food, health, observability/grafana, observability/time-series/prometheus, programming/go

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   • Tidepool - An open source, nonprofit effort building an open data platform to make diabetes data more accessible, actionable, and meaningful
5. Scaphandre - A metrology agent dedicated to electric power and energy consumption metrics 2024-02-15

   tags: electricity, observability/metrics, observability/time-series/prometheus, power, programming/rust, server, virtualization/qemu

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   • The road to Scaphandre v1.0 - Challenges and improvements to come on IT energy consumption evaluation
   • Scaphandre v1.0 is here : Windows support, IT resources metrics, packaging, and more...
6. go-http-metrics - Modular HTTP middleware to measure HTTP requests 2023-07-26

   tags: network/http, observability/metrics, observability/time-series/prometheus, programming/go

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   • Expose Prometheus metrics in a separate port in golang
7. Reverse engineering the CAN messages for a BMW F Series Gear Selector 2023-03-03

   tags: editor/vim, embedded, programming/python, programming/python/ipython, programming/rust, reverse-engineering

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   Article Series:

   • https://www.projectgus.com/2022/06/bmw-f-series-gear-selector-part-one-failures/
   • https://www.projectgus.com/2022/06/bmw-f-series-gear-selector-part-two-breakthrough/
   • https://www.projectgus.com/2022/07/bmw-f-series-gear-selector-part-three-success/

   Supporting Repository:

   • https://github.com/projectgus/car_hacking
   • https://github.com/projectgus/car_hacking/tree/main/bmw_gear_selector

   Related Projects:

   • https://github.com/tenderlove/initial-v
8. Warp10 - a modular platform to collect, store and analyze IoT sensor data 2023-02-19

   tags: internet-of-things, observability/time-series, programming/java

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   • https://www.warp10.io/content/03_Documentation/00_Overview
   • https://www.warp10.io/content/03_Documentation/04_WarpScript
   • https://www.clever-cloud.com/doc/administrate/metrics/warp10/
   • https://senx.io/cases-studies/clevercloud
   • https://github.com/senx/warp10-platform
   • https://github.com/ovh/erlenmeyer
9. TLS Expiry and Uptime Monitor for URLs - Prometheus Blackbox | Grafana 2022-05-01

   tags: network/transport-layer-security, observability/grafana, observability/time-series/prometheus

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   • https://prometheus.io/docs/guides/multi-target-exporter/
   • https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/blob/master/example.yml
10. reTerminal - Embedded Linux with Raspberry Pi CM4 and 5-Inch Capacitive Multi-Touch Screen - Seeed Studio 2022-04-09

    tags: display, internet-of-things, linux, observability/grafana, observability/time-series/influxdb, raspberry-pi

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    • https://wiki.seeedstudio.com/reTerminal/
    • https://notenoughtech.com/raspberry-pi/reterminal/
    • Grafana Weather Dashboard on the reTerminal by Seeed Studio
    • https://www.the-diy-life.com/grafana-weather-dashboard-using-influxdb-and-an-esp32-in-depth-tutorial/
11. Testing Microservices, the sane way | by Cindy Sridharan 2022-03-23

    tags: continuous-integration, microservice, programming/testing

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    Article series:

    • Testing Microservices, the sane way
    • Testing in Production, the safe way
    • Testing in Production: the hard parts

    Presentations:

    • Cindy Sridharan: Testing Microservices: A Sane Approach Pre-Production & In Production

    • https://twitter.com/copyconstruct/status/974530841190608897

    I’m more and more convinced that staging environments are like mocks - at best a pale imitation of the genuine article and the worst form of confirmation bias.

    It’s still better than having nothing - but “works in staging” is only one step better than “works on my machine”.

12. Vector - A lightweight, ultra-fast tool for building observability pipelines 2022-02-01

    tags: linux, observability/elastic/elasticsearch, observability/logging/grafana-loki, observability/metrics, observability/time-series/prometheus, syslog

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13. How to successfully correlate metrics, logs, and traces in Grafana 2020-12-21

    tags: observability, observability/grafana, observability/logging, observability/logging/grafana-loki, observability/time-series/prometheus, observability/tracing, observability/tracing/grafana-tempo, performance

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14. Using Grafana Loki 2.0 as an Alert Source - ScyllaDB 2020-12-11

    tags: observability, observability/grafana, observability/logging/grafana-loki, observability/time-series/prometheus

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15. Bollinger Bands with Prometheus and Grafana 2019-10-23

    tags: observability, observability/grafana, observability/time-series/prometheus, visualization

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    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollinger_Bands
    • https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bollingerbands.asp
    • https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/409
    • https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/940
16. prometheus-cpp: Prometheus Client Library for Modern C++ 2019-10-21

    tags: bazel, cmake, observability, observability/time-series/prometheus, programming/c, programming/c++

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    • https://jupp0r.github.io/prometheus-cpp/annotated.html
    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52883657/usage-guidelines-for-prometheus-c
    • https://slides.com/juppmuller/deck-17#/
17. Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System 2019-09-16

    tags: film, media, movie, music, self-hosting, series

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    • https://jellyfin.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
    • https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin
18. Thanos - Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities 2019-09-11

    tags: database, distributed-system/cluster, observability, observability/time-series, observability/time-series/prometheus

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    • https://improbable.io/blog/thanos-prometheus-at-scale
    • https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos
    • https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1uwoxPdTjSjvGaN1LJewZg1NXjeHfRtfvqh6LygLcayQ/edit#slide=id.g5f09eeda59_0_9
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuWTNrGyWLQ
    • https://katacoda.com/bwplotka/courses/thanos
19. Self Hosted Email - Understanding DMARC : selfhosted 2019-07-22

    tags: cryptography/encryption, email, email/dkim, email/dmarc, email/spf, self-hosting

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    • https://www.m3aawg.org/activities/training/dmarc-training-series
    • https://www.m3aawg.org/system/files/M3AAWG_DMARC_Training_2012-10-All-a_0.pdf
    • https://dmarc.org/presentations/Email-Authentication-Basics-2015Q2.pdf
20. IPFS is the Distributed Web - InterPlanetary File System - a distributed system for storing and accessing files, websites, applications, and data 2019-06-11

    tags: distributed, filesystem, media, peer, programming/go, protocol, source-code-management, web

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    • https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs
    • https://github.com/ipfs/papers/
    • https://medium.com/textileio/tutorial-series-setting-up-an-ipfs-peer-4056e6c69612