Ned McClain

I encourage you to add some feedback forms to your Grafana dashboards. The whole premise of DevOps is breaking down silos between teams; this is a great step towards that goal.

I created a simple iframe visualization panel for Grafana. Although it has been possible to embed iframes in Grafana dashboards in the past, this dedicated plugin better balances functionality with security.

The conflict arises when teams use IaC tools to deploy Grafana dashboards. This results in dashboards that can be edited in the UI, but changes cannot be saved - a frustrating user experience.

I have two clients using Formbricks for everything from simple contact forms to full-blown "in-app experience management". One of them needed a Helm chart to deploy to their

ArgoCD and Grafana have been key building blocks in a big chunk of the Kubernetes environments I've worked with. ArgoCD provides continuous app delivery, while Grafana acts as

You can deploy PostgREST on AWS Fargate in a matter of minutes. This post will show you how to do it step-by-step.

I recently helped a client deploy their own geo IP lookup service, and wanted to show you how to do it too. Learn how in this 6-minute video.

Here's a quick run-through of how to use Ghost to power a static website.

Data backups are an inglorious but vital part of IT operations. They are most challenging in “big data” deployments, such as analytical databases. This article will explore the plumbing involved in backing up ClickHouse and introduce the clickhouse-backup tool for automating the process.

News on an updated build of raspberian-firstboot: easy, full customization of a Raspberry Pi image before deployment.

Web developers must protect their apps against Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks. This article looks at an alternative approach to CSRF protection: on-demand, cryptographically signed tokens that require no storage.

Databases hold a special place in the hearts of operations folks. ClickHouse deserves a spot in your toolbelt for analytics use cases.

The COVID19 outbreak has reached near-pandemic levels. Now is not the time for alarm. However, it is the perfect opportunity to take a moment and think about how prepared your business is for catastrophe.

From software development to economics to marketing, familiarity with machine learning will make you better at your job. The power of machine learning is in your reach today. You don&

As the number of IoT devices has exploded, so has the compute power of each individual device. This post looks at a simple way to use that power to improve the availability of edge/IoT devices.

My favorite time on skis or a snowboard is when there is fresh powder. At the resort, some of the deepest snow can be found when runs open at the beginning of the season.

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s landscape of tools is vast and overwhelming. Yet some of that tooling must be valuable in the enterprise environment. How is technology leadership supposed to pick the wheat from the chaff?

Our industry has reached a consensus that testing is essential for software quality. This post explores an underappreciated aspect of software testing, and how it can be leveraged beyond the development environment.

From collisions to lift accidents — loading injuries to avalanches, the commercial ski industry deals with life-and-death situations every day. With 85 years more experience than we have in SRE/DevOps… what DevOps-related lessons can we take from the ski industry?