OpenStack Lessons from OpenStack Telemetry: Deflation This post is the second and final episode of Lessons from OpenStack Telemetry. If you have missed the first post, you can read it here. Splitting At some point, the rules relaxed on
OpenStack Lessons from OpenStack Telemetry: Incubation It was mostly around that time in 2012 that I and a couple of fellow open-source enthusiasts started working on Ceilometer, the first piece of software from the OpenStack Telemetry project. Six years
Interview My interview with Cool Python Codes A few days ago, I've recently been contacted by Godson Rapture from Cool Python codes to answer a few questions about what I work on in open source. Godson regularly interview developers and
OpenStack OpenStack Summit Boston 2017 recap The 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
Gnocchi Gnocchi independence Three years have passed since I started working on Gnocchi. It's amazing to gaze at the path we wandered on. During all this time, Gnocchi has been "incubated" inside OpenStack. It
OpenStack Attending OpenStack Summit Ocata For the last time in 2016, I flew out to the OpenStack Summit in Barcelona, where I had the chance to meet (again) a lot of my fellow OpenStack contributors there. How To
Gnocchi Gnocchi 3.0 release After a few weeks of hard work with the team, here is the new major version of Gnocchi, stamped 3.0.0. It was very challenging, as we wanted to implement a few
Python From decimal to timestamp with MySQL When working with timestamps, one question that often arises is the precision of those timestamps. Most software is good enough with a precision up to the second, and that's easy. But in some
OpenStack A retrospective of the OpenStack Telemetry project Newton cycle A few weeks ago, I recorded an interview with Krishnan Raghuram about what was discussed for this development cycle for OpenStack Telemetry at the Austin summit. It's interesting to look back at this
Open Source The bad practice in FOSS projects management During the OpenStack summit a few weeks ago, I had the chance to talk to some people about my experience on running open source projects. It turns out that after hanging out in
Talks Gnocchi talk at the Paris Monitoring Meetup #6 Last week was the sixth edition of the Paris Monitoring Meetup, where I was invited as a speaker to present and talk about Gnocchi. There was around 50 persons in the room, listening
OpenStack OpenStack Summit Newton from a Telemetry point of view It's again that time of the year, where we all fly out to a different country to chat about OpenStack and what we'll do during the next 6 months. This time, it was
Gnocchi Gnocchi 2.1 release A little less than 2 months after our latest major release, here is the new minor version of Gnocchi, stamped 2.1.0. It was a smooth release, but with one major feature
Pifpaf Pifpaf, or how to run any daemon briefly There's a lot of situation where you end up needing a software deployed temporarily. This can happen when testing something manually, when running a script or when launching a test suite. Indeed, many
OpenStack The OpenStack Schizophrenia When I started contributing to OpenStack, almost five years ago, it was a small ecosystem. There were no foundation, a handful of projects and you could understand the code base in a few
Gnocchi Gnocchi 2.0 release A little more than 3 months after our latest minor release, here is the new major version of Gnocchi, stamped 2.0.0. It contains a lot of new and exciting features, and
Gnocchi Gnocchi 1.3.0 release Finally, Gnocchi 1.3.0 is out. This is our final release, more or less matching the OpenStack 6 months schedule, that concludes the Liberty development cycle. This release was supposed to be
OpenStack OpenStack Summit Mitaka from a Telemetry point of view Last week I was in Tokyo, Japan for the OpenStack Summit, discussing the new Mitaka version that will be released in 6 months. I've attended the summit mainly to discuss and follow-up new
Gnocchi Benchmarking Gnocchi for fun & profit We got pretty good feedback on Gnocchi so far, even if we only had little. Recently, in order to have a better feeling of where we were at, we wanted to know how
Talks Gnocchi talk at OpenStack Paris Meetup #16 Last week, I've been invited to the OpenStack Paris meetup #16, whose subject was about metrics in OpenStack. Last time I spoke at this meetup was back in 2012, during the OpenStack Paris
Interview My interview in le Journal du Hacker A few days ago, the French equivalent of Hacker News, called "Le Journal du Hacker", interviewed me about my work on OpenStack, my job at Red Hat and my self-published book
Gnocchi Visualize your OpenStack cloud: Gnocchi & Grafana We've been hard working with the Gnocchi team these last months to store your metrics, and I guess it's time to show off a bit. So far Gnocchi offers scalable metric storage and
OpenStack Ceilometer, Gnocchi & Aodh: Liberty progress It's been a while since I talked about Ceilometer and its companions, so I thought I'd go ahead and write a bit about what's going on this side of OpenStack. I'm not going
Python Timezones and Python Recently, I've been fighting with the never ending issue of timezones. I never thought I would have plunged into this rabbit hole, but hacking on OpenStack and Gnocchi I felt into that trap
OpenStack OpenStack Summit Liberty from a Ceilometer & Gnocchi point of view Last week I was in Vancouver, BC for the OpenStack Summit, discussing the new Liberty version that will be released in 6 months. I've attended the summit mainly to discuss and follow-up new