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Re:Server Monitoring Alerts That Don't Use Nagios on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @04:51PM (#15022379)
Hey thanks for the feedback, dozzie. We're glad you don't use Nagios either. We think that Watchdog is a valuable resource for the HN community, which is why we posted it on Show-HN. Unlike Nagios or any other competing server monitoring tool out there, Watchdog is completely config free and installs in about 23 seconds. We are proud to show if off and hope you would try it out. It's definitely not late by 5-6 years.
Re:Show HN: We're building essential hardware alerts right into log ma... on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @12:57PM (#14257641)
Maybe as a regular submission, or what do you think? We are hoping to get feedback from the community on the alerts system and if it meets the needs of DevOps personnel.
Re:Ask HN: If I only learn one static typed language, which one should... on Thursday April 20, 2017 @12:03PM (#14157893)
Agreed. If your speciality is in DevOps, it's probably going to be golang for you. We wrote a blog post about it here: https://blog.bluematador.com/posts/mini-guide-google-golang-...
Re:A Mini-Guide to Google Golang and Why It's Perfect for DevOps on Thursday April 20, 2017 @11:59AM (#14157858)
You're right. Although a lot of people have written about this limitation in the language. Applied Go has a tutorial on how to use arrays, slices, or maps as a workaround for many generics need cases, much like it looks like Ply does. https://appliedgo.net/generics/