Technical Knowledge is Meant to be Shared
Mel's current focus is on developing cool new cloud-native solutions in
compute, automation, and full-stack observability. But as he says, no
matter how elegant the concept, it's not finished until it has been
communicated.
Mel's Recent Posts
3 Reasons Enterprise Developers Should Get “Pager Duty”
It's time to rethink who gets woken up in the middle of the night when there's an application outage. Today, both SREs and app devs should be on "pager duty."
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Perfect is the Enemy of the Good: A Lesson on Uptime
Striving for 100% service availability is not as good a goal as it appears. It can reduce flexibility and increase the fragility of dependent systems.
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Getting To Know ThousandEyes – Part 1
Let me show you how to install an Enterprise Agent on a
Raspberry Pi device, so you can try it at home to see WAN
observability with agents running in the cloud.
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Compute resources by Mel
Create, Document, and Share Live Code Examples with Jupyter
Notebook
Jupyter Notebook is an open-source web application used to
create and share code along with narrative text. See this
simple Python example that retrieves physical compute
inventory claimed in Cisco Intersight.
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Choosing Tools to Deploy and Maintain Applications and
Infrastructure – Part 1
Terraform or Ansible? Which is the best
infrastructure-as-code tool for your environment? Or, can
you use both together to take advantage of their unique
strengths and purpose?
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Choosing Tools to Deploy and Maintain Applications and
Infrastructure – Part 2
Hear how edge computing and cloud native technologies can be
used to manage all of the resources needed to run successful
in-person workshops. Live session coming to KubeCon.
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Intersight-jupyter-notebooks
Experimental collection of Cisco Intersight Jupyter
notebooks that exercise the Intersight API's
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Full Stack Observability resources by Mel
3 Reasons Enterprise Developers Should Get “Pager Duty”
It's time to rethink who gets woken up in the middle of the night when there's an application outage. Today, both SREs and app devs should be on "pager duty."
Read Mel's blog post
Getting To Know ThousandEyes – Part 1
Let me show you how to install an Enterprise Agent on a
Raspberry Pi device, so you can try it at home to see WAN
observability with agents running in the cloud.
Read Mel's blog
Appd-machine-agent-installation
This repo contains an example of how to automate the
installation and configuration of the AppDynamics Machine
Agent. It also covers a simple use case of and automated
deployment of 5 virtual machines using Terraform followed by
the installation and configuration fo Apache HTTP Daemon and
the AppDynamics Machine Agent.
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terraform-appd-cluster-agent-install
This repo contains shows how we can automation the
installation of the AppDynamics cluster-agent on Kubernetes
using Terraform.
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