When developing backend services we often develop for someone. Either it's another service, a third party or a website. We use different types of transport methods like REST, SOAP, GRPC or message queues. Note: I decided to do a small braindump in this article, so it will briefly touch on…
To start of, using OpenTelemetry in Node.js modules are planned but not officially supported yet. This article is to give you a workaround to make OpenTelemetry mostly work. Background I recently wanted to implement OpenTelemetry (or Otel) into an existing project which is set up to use import instead…
The Options If you want to access your Home Assistant instance when you're outside your local network the suggested solution is often either subscribing to Nabu Casa or setting up a VPN solution. There's a third option however that's recently become possible; using a mesh network based on Wireguard (A…
Observability, a new buzzword - What concepts hides behind it? The last couple of years there's been emerging a new buzzword around logging and metrics called "observability". This stems from the microservice architecture that has become more and more popular. One of the biggest issues with microservices is that the…
So your provider only supports bootable ISO for their provided servers? And maybe they don't even have their own DHCP server and you need to configure this yourself! Manually configuring the network from the commandline Even if NixOS does everything declaratively, the install itself requires access to the internet to…
We're not gonna focus on online tracking today but the physical aspect; home precence detection though device tracking. I will mostly focus at home automation and logging, not the creepy stuff. Why would you do this?! * You got smart devices and want to control functions at home depending on if…
Hopefully to save someone else some headache. If you ever want to access services outside of Docker in your NixOS configuration but still want to have the firewall enabled - so nobody can access all the ports on your device. Then you will need to set the docker interface as…
NixOps is a great tool for deploying both locally and to the cloud. There's also a few tools to automatically deploy a NixOps configuration to a lot of cloud providers, such as Google, Hetzner, DigitalOcean, AWS, Azure and more. But NixOps is still in a beta and it's functionality is…