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How to Integrate Grafana with Home Assistant

This post covers how to get started with Home Assistant and Grafana, including setting up InfluxDB and Grafana with Docker, configuring InfluxDB to receive data from Home Assistant, and creating a Grafana dashboard to visualize your data. It provides a comprehensive guide for real-time monitoring and analysis of Home Assistant data. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to integrate Grafana with Home Assistant using InfluxDB.

Bazel Build System for Embedded Projects

Selecting a build system is an essential decision when creating a project. Changing is always painful, especially in a mature repository. Therefore the choice should be made carefully. With this article, I will try to describe a few advantages of what Bazel can provide in the context of an embedded repository and show how to set up a build environment with a cross compiler from scratch.

Platform.sh is now using annual carbon intensities from Electricity Maps

One of the value propositions of Platform.sh is to offer greener hosting. By choosing cloud hosting instead of on-premise hosting, you are selecting a greener way to host your applications and websites. In addition, when creating a project, you have the option to choose the greenest region to host it. How?

How to Use OpenTelemetry & JavaScript Together: A Tutorial

This post was written by Siddhant Varma. Scroll down for the author’s bio. Observability is an essential aspect of a healthy software architecture and a highly performant system. It enables developers and engineers to understand and dive deeper into how their application behaves. This in turn helps them monitor it effectively.

Alloy Software Wins 2023 Globee Awards for Information Technology

East Hanover, NJ — May 26, 2023 — Alloy Software is thrilled to announce that our latest offering, Alloy Navigator 2022, has been honored with the prestigious 18th Annual 2023 Globee® Awards for Information Technology. This achievement recognizes our commitment to delivering outstanding products, solutions, and services that set new industry standards.

Mastering Kubernetes Networking with Cilium

In a recent meetup I hosted alongside Kunal Kushwaha, we discussed Cilium, an eBPF-powered open-source cloud-native networking solution that offers security, observability, scalability, and superior performance. Throughout this blog I will explore how the increased usage of Kubernetes has led to the need for advanced networking, security, and observability solutions. This will allow us to take a closer look at how Cilium can benefit Kubernetes users.

The new ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation MichaelKors

A new ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation called MichaelKors has recently emerged, which targets Linux and VMware ESXi systems. The cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike warns that this trend is significant since ESXi does not support third-party agents or antivirus software which makes it an attractive target for cybercriminals.

Understanding MTTR Networking: How to Improve Incident Response Time

As organizations continue to shift their operations to cloud networks, maintaining the performance and security of these systems becomes increasingly important. Read on to learn about incident management and the tools and strategies organizations can use to reduce MTTR and incident response times in their networks.