Raff Poltronieri

Applications Aren’t an Island

06/21/18 In my last post, I talked about microservices and how their deep connection can offer a quality application. Now, I want to move up a layer. Not only between microservices…

Adopting a Distributed Tracing Architecture

06/21/18 In a distributed tracing architecture, we need to define the microservices that work inside it. We also need to distinguish the “component” behavior from the “user” behavi…

Customizing Logwatch for Sysadmin Needs

06/18/18 Logwatch is essentially a system log analyzer and reporter. It elaborates logs that are simply collected by syslog. This kind of evolution is simplifying the daily job of …

Log Analysis Tools Review: Syslog, Filtering the Most Relevant Events

06/15/18 Who’s passed more than a weekend going almost blind because something in your didn’t work as it should, and it produced, hopefully, thousands of lines of error messages, a…

A New Approach to Cloud-Native Applications and How They Could and Should Replace the Legacy Ones

06/14/18 “In the beginning was the word” … oops, “the cloud.” Long ago “cloud” was a buzzword, especially when it was a cool word that one knew exactly what it meant. Many companie…