Hello everyone! I am happy to announce that I’ve set up GitHub sponsors on my profile. If you want to support my blog or my work on Thanos/Prometheus, and you have some free money then now you have a way to throw some money at these projects. Let’s see if I will even get one sponsor. I was thinking that maybe I should work on some custom features that could be behind a paywall. Let’s see when I will have some time to work on them. ...
In the Cloud-based computing world, a relatively popular free and open-source software product called Prometheus exists which lets you monitor and observe other things. One of the components of its user interface lets you execute ad-hoc queries on the data that it has and see their results - not just in a table but also in a graphical way as well. For example, this is a query time() which plots the current time using two dimensions: ...
Time and time I see people who follow all these random online tutorials and then when something does not work they become dazed and confused. “Why this does not work? But this tutorial shows that it should work” – I see similar questions occasionally in various forms on forums and IRC. I think people do not realize that there is some kind of hierarchy of trustworthiness of information sources. We should be conscious of that hierarchy when looking for information and remember it when we notice that something is not correct or up-to-date. ...