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Building A Dynamic Inventory System for Ansible
Working with Ansible for most of the time during my day to day Job, dealing with the Ansible inventory files has become a daily task now. These inventory files contain a lot of important information about the hosts that Ansible needs to act upon. This information may contain, host grouping…
Performance engineering and how it is helping me become a better developer
So, it has almost been more than a year since I joined Red Hat as a Performance Engineer. Being a person who loves to code, Performance Engineering may seem like something which involves very less coding and more of testing related stuff. But, this might just not be true. Doesn’t…
Monitoring your nodes with Prometheus
System and application monitoring is a hot topic nowadays, and why it won’t be. Those small numbers which you collect from your system and applications, go a long way into explaining the cause for a lot of problems. There are a number of tools that are available which helps us…
Project Bolt: Automating Large Scale Performance and Scale
So, it has been a long time since I have written something over here now. So, what all have I been doing in this duration, that is something, which I plan to cover with this post. In my role of working as an Performance engineer, there are some really interesting…
Deploying Red Hat Satellite 6 at Scale
Red Hat Satellite 6 is a system management product that enables the customers to deploy, configure and maintain there systems across a host of physical, virtual and cloud environments. Under the hood, Satellite 6 uses a number of different components(foreman, qpid, pulp, candlepin, etc.) to provide a host of features…
Collecting Application Metrics Using Statsd
Building applications and deploying them form one part of the whole game. The other part involves monitoring the system and application behaviour while the applications run. There are moments during an application lifecycle where we want to see, how much system resources are being consumed, how many files a particular…
A month as Performance Engineering Intern at Red Hat
Sometimes, the things you wish for, do happen to you. This is something which happened with me. During the month of February, I got to know that I have been selected as a Performance Engineering Intern at Red Hat. This was something, which I was wishing for a long time….
Working with Satellite Performance
Managing infrastructure in an IT environment is a big deal. There is a lot of time and human effort that goes into building and managing the IT Infrastructure so that it runs efficiently and provides good performance. At Red Hat, we have a lot of clients that use our products…
Handling Crashes in Microreg
From quiet some time, I have been working on building a toolset for developers that can help ease their pain of deploying and managing their Microservices based infrastructure. You can take a look at the following posts to know what exactly is going under the hood 😉 Building a Microservices…