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Netlify is a serverless approach to developing and deploying websites. No longer do we worry about servers, databases, backends. Now we build the website and distribute around the world's Content Delivery Network for blazing performance and increased security.

The most complete Open Source Monitoring solution including Monitoring, Alerting, Rule Engine, Exporters, and much more. Prometheus is  the defacto standard for Cloud Native monitoring and shapes the market with the Prometheus metrics format.

An all-in-one DevOps tool covering Builds, Container Registry, CI/CD and much more. Also, we take a look at how transparent GitLab is as a company.

Minio is a Cloud Native Object Storage server. Easily deploy this on premise or in the cloud and integrate your applications directly. Minio contains some of the higher end data management features such as WORM, encryption, and Federation to name a few.

In this episode we discuss NetData a small lightweight binary that runs on Linux or Mac and provides real-time monitoring, alerting, and dashboards out of the boxx

The true Cloud Native Functions as a Service built by Alex Ellis. No more vendor lock-in with Serverless or super complex deployments. Run it on any infrastructure on Docker or Kubernetes

In this episode we discuss installing Pi Hole on a Raspberry Pi. The Pi Hole blocks advertisements and suspicious URL's network wide. 

Grafana is building a new logging solution to treat logs as a first class citizen. inspired by Prometheus and using labels instead of full indexing.

Put the focus back into what we are building and less on the tools underneath.

Amazon recently teamed up with other companies to ensure Elastic search / ELK stack remains Open source. Back in 2018 Elastic started creeping in non-open source code. The fear in the community is Elastic will overnight switch the product to Enterprise and stop supporting the Open Source version.

Google Analytics is somewhat the defacto standard when installing analytics solutions. However, since it is a free solution we become the product and our website visitors information is then taken and processed. Simple Analytics doesn't store user data, is faster than Google Anayltics, and we provide a better more transparent service to website visitors.