In a previous blog post by one of my colleagues, we shared how we developed a powerful semantic search engine for our NetEye User Guide. This solution uses Elasticsearch in combination with machine learning models like ELSER to index and query our documentation. While the proof of concept (POC) worked great, there was a challenge…
Read MoreWhen adopting an open-source software project that you don’t own, you may find it necessary to modify it partially to meet your specific requirements. However, as you implement those changes, it’s important to recognize that the upstream project will eventually update itself, leading to potential conflicts in the files that both you and the upstream…
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Hello everyone! Today, I’d like to briefly discuss an improvement to the update and upgrade procedures that we’ve started to adopt with NetEye 4.39! What we wanted to improve One aspect that made quite an impact was that whenever the update or upgrade procedure stopped, even for legitimate reasons such as rpmnew or rpmsave files,…
Read MoreHello everyone! Today, I’d like to share an exciting improvement we’ve made to the installation and upgrade procedures in NetEye, introducing a faster and more efficient parallel architecture! Why Modernize the Installation and Upgrade Processes? At Würth Phoenix, we strive to make NetEye not only powerful but also highly efficient and reliable for our users….
Read MoreAnsible is a powerful automation tool that simplifies the configuration, deployment, and management of systems. At its heart lies the concept of idempotency — the guarantee that applying the same operation any number of times will yield the same result. Writing your own Ansible collection can unlock a new level of customization and control for…
Read MoreStarting a new project is often an opportunity to reevaluate established practices. In our case, deploying a containerized application to production with OpenShift led us to revisit our GitOps strategy. Using ArgoCD as our GitOps tool raised a fundamental question: What is the best way to move changes into production—push or pull? Understanding Push and…
Read MoreWhen we talk about APIs, we developers are generally biased, and focus on how they’re implemented technically – how they work, how they integrate into larger systems – and we settle for that. But there’s a valuable part of API development that often gets overlooked: creating their descriptions. This practice tends to be undervalued, so…
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