The installation of the Elasticsearch-NewRelic plugin is quite straightforward. First we need to download and install New Relic’s Java Agent, this agent is responsible for sending back all the statistical data to New Relic’s servers, for storage, charting, etc. To obtain the latest Java Agent from New Relic we must: Log in to New Relic.
Two of my favourite applications at the moment are Elasticsearch and New Relic. Elasticsearch is a distributed, RESTful, free/open source search server based on Apache Lucene, while New Relic is a software as a service (SaaS) based application performance management (APM) tool that can monitor a wide range of applications, written various different languages. I have been using New Relic in a production environment for
Elasticsearch by default runs assuming a one machine, one node setup. However for local dev I needed to boot up more than one node on my machine, to test certain aspects of a cluster and for my own personal exposure. The quickest way I though of was to specify paramaters via the cli when starting a
Homebrew is a package management system written by Max Howell that simplifies the installation of software on the Mac OS X operating system. It is a free/open source software project to simplify installation of other free/open source software packages. It is similar in aim and function to MacPorts and Fink. The installation is very straightforward, simply run the
Recently I have been working more and more frequently in a *nix environment (thats not to say I haven’t spent my fair share of time in the terminal). While running a few commands that I ‘just know’ how to run, I dug into them a bit deeper to find out their true functionality and get more acquainted with them. As I
I recently posted another ‘Define’ article (this is where I expand on an acronym) based on NFR’s in which I mentioned the idea of software ‘ilities’. In software projects we must take into consideration ‘ilities’. Prioritising them is necessary because the client will inevitably demand that the project adheres to all of them (within reason).
Throughout my career I have worked with more open source projects than I care to remember. Some were good, some were great, some were poorly documented, and some were plain fun to use and some required stringent security analysis due to the application leveraging them. However the biggest concern of any developer incorporating a FOSS project into
After spending a few days churning out unit tests for a recent project of mine, I took a step back and asked myself: What are the properties of good unit tests? Tests are seen as something of a burden that devs have to do to keep business happy, but in reality they can save countless
NFR stands for Non-Functional requirements. These are often associated with the state of the system and not with the functionality that the system has to offer. NFR aren’t something that your system does but rather something that your system is. General ‘ilities’ of the system such as scalability, interoperability, maintainability, portability, performance and security fall under the category of