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Raspberry Pi 5: Installing Debian 12 (Bookworm)
Raspberry Pi 5: Installing Debian 12 (Bookworm)
· β˜• 5 min read
While Debian 12 (codenamed Bookworm) is not yet officially released for the Raspberry Pi 5, you can install by following this approach. This guide will walk you through the steps to install Debian 12 on your Raspberry Pi 5.

Extend business observability: Extract business events from online databases (Part 2)
Extend business observability: Extract business events from online databases (Part 2)
· β˜• 1 min read
In part 1 of this blog series, we explored the concept of business observability, its significance, and how real-time visibility aids in making informed decisions. In part 2, we’ll show you how to retrieve business data from a database, analyze that data using dashboards and ad hoc queries, and then use a Davis analyzer to predict metric behavior and detect behavioral anomalies. Read the full article published in Dynatrace official blog.

Extend business observability: Extract business events from online databases (Part 1)
Extend business observability: Extract business events from online databases (Part 1)
· β˜• 1 min read
Business leaders benefit from in-the-moment business insights. They frequently articulate the need for real-time visibility into business data to support agile business decisions. But existing business intelligence (BI) tools often lack the broad context, ease of data access, and real-time insights needed to understand and improve customer experience and complex business processes. Read the full article published in Dynatrace official blog.

Understanding the precise risk of a vulnerability in an environment with AI
Understanding the precise risk of a vulnerability in an environment with AI
· β˜• 6 min read · πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» Amrith
Finding vulnerabilities is always one side of the story. Risk assessments should always be based on environmental characteristics like where the impacted system is and what access the vulnerable system has. This blog will look at how the AI of Dynatrace accounts for the environmental characteristics for given vulnerabilities to rate the risk level accurately. This will help teams to prioritise where to start the remediation.

AIOps: All systems require a Med Pod
AIOps: All systems require a Med Pod
· β˜• 7 min read · πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» Amrith
How do you determine what exactly is the root cause of a problem in a complex microservice architecture? In this blog I talk about Med Pods, a concept seen in movies and how AIOps are the closest cousin in the technology world. Most importantly, why AIOps is so relevant today and how it helps in getting answers quickly which enables operators to focus on resiliency.

Dynatracing a Linux server in under 5 minutes
Dynatracing a Linux server in under 5 minutes
· β˜• 1 min read · πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» Amrith
In this blog, I am going to show you how easy it is to setup a Dynatrace account and get the Dynatrace agent installed and use the power of AI-Ops

Running a VM using Vagrant
Running a VM using Vagrant
· β˜• 6 min read · πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» Amrith
In this blog, I will show you how to initialise and setup Vagrant, the command line utility for managing the lifecycle of virtual machines, to run a Linux machine on Windows

Eliminating toil in the cloud with NoOps automation
Eliminating toil in the cloud with NoOps automation
· β˜• 6 min read · πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» Amrith
What is Toil? Am I affected by Toil? Why is it important for an SRE to eliminate Toil? In this post, I explain how to identify toil and how to eliminate them through NoOps practices

Migrating legacy Windows Apps to AWS(or any cloud) with no code change (1/2)
Migrating legacy Windows Apps to AWS(or any cloud) with no code change (1/2)
· β˜• 3 min read · πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» Amrith
Migrating apps that were designed for older versions of Windows cannot be installed on the recent versions. This limits ones ability to run older apps on newer versions of Windows because older ones reach End of Life. In this post, we check the options available to run older apps on newer versions of Windows

Desperate need for alternative storage medium
Desperate need for alternative storage medium
· β˜• 7 min read · πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» Amrith
Enterprise storage arrays still uses Hard disk drives and Solid state drives even today and there is a need for an alternative storage medium to cater for the next century

How to Use Amazon's EC2 (back in 2011)
How to Use Amazon's EC2 (back in 2011)
· β˜• 6 min read · πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» Amrith
This is how an Amazon EC2 instance was instantiated in 2011! The moment you realise that even Cloud has a legacy version!

Cheat sheets
Cheat sheets
· β˜• 6 min read · πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» Amrith
Frequently used commands and cheatsheets for quick reference