It has been a long time since I have tested Gnocchi performances. Last time was two years ago, on version 2. The current version for Gnocchi is 4.0, released a couple of months ago. It adds a lot of new features, such as a Redis incoming driver and a new job distribution method.
Many of those features and improvement implemented over the last couple of years were made with performance in mind. It is time to check if this lives up to our expectation.
Read MoreThe realm of time series database keeps expanding those last years. Now and then a new contender appears from the fog. People keep asking me about the difference between Gnocchi and Prometheus. It's time to content them.
Read MoreAfter more than 10 years of writing Python, there's something I always have been annoyed with: logging.
Read MoreFinally! Four months ago we pushed the Gnocchi 3.1 release and here we are now, release the 4th major version of that timeseries database.
Read MoreI've always been frustrated by the GitHub workflow. A while back I wrote how Gerrit workflow was superior to GitHub pull-request system. But it seems that GitHub listened and they improved the pull-request system these last years to include reviews, and different workflow implementation, e.g. requiring continuous integration tests to pass before merging a patch.
Read MoreThe first OpenStack Summit of 2017 was last week, in Boston, MA, USA. I was able to attend as I've been selected to give 3 talks, to help for a hands-on and to animate an on-boarding session. This made sure I was a bit busy every day, which was good.
Read MoreA couple of years ago, I wrote about the Python retrying library. This library was designed to retry the execution of a task when a failure occurred.
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