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101 Guide to RabbitMQ Metrics Monitoring

This guide covers key metrics important for efficiently monitoring RabbitMQ. We will also talk about in-built RabbitMQ monitoring tools with which you can start monitoring your RabbitMQ instances. In fast-paced, data-driven applications where our data flows between the systems at lightning speed - the reliability and efficiency of your messaging infrastructure can make or break your whole application.

5 open source projects to contribute to in 2024

Contributing to open source software helps you develop new skills, gain real-world coding experience, interact with new technologies, and meet new people. But with so many open source projects to choose from — developers started some 52 million new projects on GitHub in 2022 alone — it can be difficult to figure out which repositories to contribute to. If you’re thinking about joining a new open source project in 2024, you’ve come to the right place.

Trimming Operational Costs: Unveiling Mattermost's Cross-Cluster Migration

When it comes to managing infrastructure resources, striking a balance between rightsizing and cost optimization is crucial. Our cloud infrastructure at Mattermost runs on multiple Kubernetes clusters, RDS clusters, and S3 buckets, all isolated from each other for enhanced security and performance.

Lessons Learned from Managing Kafka Costs

You probably have seen ads where someone claims that their app can save you money by finding subscriptions you forgot about. I have a hard time imaging someone with $100s of dollars of expenses they forgot about, but I have had the occasional one that was missed. The problem is that people are inefficient when it comes to managing “stuff”. That is why there are so many places to store “stuff”.

Leveraging AI for community moderation: A tale of two assistants

Ask any community member who’s ever donned the moderator tag in a new forum and they’ll agree that handling a multitude of new general questions, technical queries, and troubleshooting scenarios can be challenging at first. However, thanks to the rise of AI-powered chatbots, there are a lot of new opportunities to find innovative ways to tackle these challenges. The Mattermost Peer-to-Peer Forum is a good example of a community consisting primarily of developers.

How a Modern Integration MESH Changes our Roles and Responsibilities

There was a time not too long ago, before the cloud was a part of every enterprise technology conversation, when integration work was considered the purview of a specific architecture and engineering group. If messages failed to send, or services failed to respond, application stakeholders would create a trouble ticket for the integration team to address. In some ways, this separation of labor was effective enough at the time.