Understanding how a software product is used and performs in production is incredibly useful. SaaS companies use real time analytics tools to make informed development decisions. But on-prem enterprise product teams mostly operate in the blind: relying on vanilla logs, inaccurate surveys and random guesswork in making decisions. There are several analytics solutions out there. But let’s consider a simple approach towards collecting and analyzing data from on-prem software: ... Read more

This website is powered by Hugo, a static site generator written in Go by Steve Francia. Having maintained several wordpress blogs over the years, I sought a more minimalist and efficient approach for this blog. After considerable research, I chose Hugo (over Jekyll) for its speed and simplicity. With Hugo, you write content using markdown and run a program to generate HTML pages. It includes an embedded webserver to serve the content locally. ... Read more

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