Author Archives: Mark Bastiaans

Smart Grid Research with the ELK Stack. You Know, For Science.

Posted on 21/01/2015 by Mark Bastiaans

The Elasticsearch tagline is “you know, for search”. But in our case, also for science. At Servicelab, we’re using Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana to monitor and analyze a Smart Grid pilot. Read on for the why and how.

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DevOps on Mobile

Posted on 11/06/2014 by Mark Bastiaans

The word on the street is DevOps. There’s technology out there to make both developers’ and sysadmins’ lives easier and more intertwined, such as: Containerization: packaging software in a lightweight virtualization container with a low overhead, with bonuses in maintainability … Continue reading →

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Welcome to Framework Limbo! Using Eclipse, Maven, GWT and Lombok

Posted on 14/05/2012 by Mark Bastiaans

One of the main advantages of service engineering in Java is that there are quite a lot of environments, libraries, frameworks, IDEs and plugins to choose from. That’s also a major drawback. We ran into this while doing a recent … Continue reading →

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