If your Elasticsearch data already has Kibana dashboards, you shouldn’t need Kibana to look at them. That’s the bet behind teleplot, and v2026.10.0 is the first release you can install. Teleplot is a …
Agents are very good at writing files. So when a tool’s input is a file, an MCP server in front of it starts out with a problem: the agent can already do the job without it. The server has to earn its …
Over the last month or so I have been writing some data collection and simple analysis routines for the things we (developers) use every day. The ultimate goal is to have a system that can collect, …
For the last few years I have been very interested in what we can learn about our software development processes by looking at the data generated by the tools that we use to manage and deploy our …
As a developer I recognise the importance of generating logs for the systems that I help design and develop. At the outset often everyone recognizes the importance of logging but somehow it’s very …
I don’t usually write reviews but I was so deleted by es-mode for emacs that I felt compelled to share. If you have worked with REST APIs and ElasticSearch in particular you probably have had similar …
Working with small teams is a lot of fun and I find it fairly easy to keep track of what is happening with version control and build systems. Errors and failures don’t come up that often and when they …
Refactoring is a key practice to improved code hygiene. Making refactoring part of your next project is one thing but if you have just joined a team or project with a significant amount of debt how do …
Taking a leaf out of the XP book and in particular test driven development I have had some successes in using this idea when doing a presentation. I have dubbed the idea ‘Test driven talks’. The basic …
When performance testing a web application (as in raw operations per second) I have seem many people try to benchmark their new system against the agreed performance level right off the bat. The …