If you are googling for Grafana, chances are you are looking for a solution to collect data points and visualize them, e.g., for server or infrastructure monitoring, application tracking, etc. You will quickly get sucked into the alphabet soup of monitoring software, such as Graphite, Carbon, Whisper, Prometheus, Cortex, etc…

Meetings are important. Period. Why? It solicits the best ideas and provokes discussion on prioritization of those ideas Even more importantly, it fosters: Sense of belonging — participants feel consulted on and heard Alignment — participants whose ideas are turned down receive meaningful feedback, and get behind consensus Transparency —…

Google Tag Manager (GTM) was created to empower digital marketers to track user events without making code modifications directly on their website — a digital marketer can configure user events to track on the GTM platform, and the configuration will be converted to code, and deployed to the website by…

Users are the lifeblood of web services, and growing users is paramount to the sustenance of the web services. Find out how you can accelerate user growth by implementing social connect buttons in 5 minutes. The Era of ‘Perennially Logged In’ Social network users are always active, and thus are perennially logged in to their various…

Photo by Mark Rabe on Unsplash Unless you are Google, or the likes, you are neither flush with cash nor are you dominant enough that your company can operate in equilibrium for long periods. In other words, you cannot afford to hire engineers who are simply focused on one single…

Almost everyone wants to jump head first into machine learning without learning data preprocessing, which is the non-sexy part. Well … Imagine if you could download knowledge to do something without the slow painful process of learning. Now you can. Well sort of. In an Iron Man/Tony Stark, kind…

Firstly, why would anybody use webpack-dev-server? One of the goals of webpack-dev-server is to shorten the feedback loop between coding and seeing the result. This increases productivity. This means that any code change, appears automagically and instantly on the browser. Here is what webpack-dev server actually does: Serves static html…

Most OAuth documents focus on either overly high-level abstractions suitable for executives, or overly low-level implementation details that strives for completeness, and are intended for specifications committee members and developers, who deal with OAuth on a regular basis. …

The original purpose, and it remains the most common use case for Webpack, is front-end javascript bundling. This involves bundling a piece of javascript code, and all its dependencies into a single javascript file that can be served as a static javascript and referenced from a HTML page. If you…