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Carlos A Olmos

Load environment variables from a file in the terminal (zsh)

Many times I need to load environment variables from a simple configuration file. This is a quick and simple ZSH shell alias that helps.

Everactive Edge Webhooks, Fluentd, and S3

How to send data from the Everactive Edge Platform to S3 using Fluentd and webhooks. This solution is totally overengineered and meant for learning purposes. You don't want to use this in production, or do you?... ;)

Everactive Edge API and Pipedream

In this article, we are going to integrate the Everactive Edge API with a Google Sheet using Pipedream.com.

Instrumenting applications with Prometheus

Instrumenting applications with Prometheus. In this article, we will learn how to create custom metrics for a simple web application and use Prometheus to collect and report on them

MQTT with RabbitMQ

MQTT is a widely used protocol in the IoT world. RabbitMQ is one of the most popular message brokers and supports different kinds of messaging protocols. One of them is MQTT. In this article, I will show you how to implement a robust, scalable, and flexible MQTT solution using RabbitMQ as the broker.