Writing

This page showcases some of the articles, quick starts, and glossaries I’ve written or edited. ✍🏾

Articles

• Traceable: A Beginner’s Guide to API Governance

• SolarWinds' Loggly: Proactive Monitoring: Definition and Best Practices

• Splunk: Network Configuration Today: The Ultimate Guide

• LinearB: How To Easily Create A Burndown Chart For Your Team In Excel

• LinearB: The What, Why and How of a Sprint Burndown Chart

• Testim: Page Factory in Selenium: Everything You Need to Know

• SQreamDB: Big Data and SQL: Everything You Need to Know

• Zephyr Project, Linux Foundation Project: Zephyr Developer Summit: Interactive TSC Panel (Video)

• Loft Labs: Cloud Development: An Introductory Guide

• OpsLevel: Measure and improve developer productivity: a complete guide

• Waldo: An iOS Dev's Complete Guide to Test Automation With XCUITest

• Testim: Nonfunctional Testing Types: N to Add to Your Test Suite

• Waldo: An Introductory Guide to Using XCTest

• DNDsttuff by SolarWinds: Azure Data Factory: A Quick Guide

• Waldo: Getting Started with Mockable for Android Testing

• Waldo: Testing with Appium: How to Use XPath Locators

• OwnID: 10 Ways to Reduce Abandoned Cart for the Holiday Season

• Panoply by SQream: A Comprehensive Guide to BigQuery Data Types

• Panoply by SQream: ETL: Will it survive big data?

• Testim: How to Get Started With Appium Inspector: A Guide for Testers

• Wrangle: What Is the Timesheet Approval Process and How Does It Work?

• Netreo: Agentless Network Monitoring: An Introductory Guide

• Proxyrack: Getting Started with Octoparse

• InfluxData: How Does Date Conversion Work in SQL?

• InfluxData: Profiling: A Detailed Explanation

• Stackify: How to Use Dependency Injection in Azure Functions

• Comet ML: 10 Open Source Machine Learning Libraries

• Estuary: How To Move Data From MongoDB To BigQuery: 2 Methods

• Estuary: Amazon Redshift Data Types: An In-Depth Guide

• Building a Question Answering Search Engine with Power Query, OpenAI, MindsDB, Streamlit,and MindsDB SDK using SQL

• Data visualization with Astrato Analytics

• Building Excel Spreadsheets Using Python

• Arctype SQL: Write Faster and More Efficient SQL Queries

• On-premise vs. Cloud: Should you make the shift?

• Sharing Accounts Through Cookies

• Analyze Blockchain and DeFi data in minutes with SQL and Dune Analytics: A Quickstart Guide

• How to Contribute to Open Source Projects as a Non-Coder?

• Object-oriented Programming in Python 🐍🐍

• All The Damn Things - The Complete Non Code Contributor List

• How to contribute to Hacktoberfest 2022

• Educative: How to use Modeling view in Power BI Desktop

• Bird Eats Bug: Developer Productivity: How to Measure It

• Klara 5 Key Reasons to Consider Open Source Storage Over Commercial Offerings

• Klara Contributing to Open Source Beyond Software Development

• Resagratia: Working with business data in Power Query

• UrBizedge: Building a bot with Power Virtual Agent

• UrBizEdge: Common SQL syntax used in Microsoft Excel

• UrBizEdge: What’s the difference between Distinct and Unique? Power Query Data Profiling

• UrBizedge: Can Excel Speak? Text to Speech Options in Excel

• Urbizedge: Why is Microsoft Power BI so slow? How to improve performance

• UrBizEdge: Data Integration: Panoply and Power BI using Shopify data

• UrBizEge: How to embed Power BI into Notion

• UrBizEdge: Connecting to Google BigQuery from Power BI Desktop

• UrBizEdge: 10 Pandas Functions you need to know for Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)

• UrBizEdge: RFM analysis with Power BI

• UrBizEdge: Machine Learning in Power BI

• UrBizEdge: Setting up R and Python in Microsoft Excel

• UrBizEdge: Power Query in Excel For Mac

• UrBizEdge: Power BI Desktop: The Beginner’s Guide

• MUO (MakeUseOf): Why Microsoft 365 Copilot in Excel Will Be Exciting

• MUO (MakeUseOf): CONCAT vs. TEXTJOIN: Which One Should You Choose to Join Values

• MUO (MakeUseOf): XML vs. JSON vs. YAML: How Do They Differ?

• MUO (MakeUseOf): How to Create a Chart in Power BI

• MUO (MakeUseOf): How to Use the TAKE and DROP Functions in Excel

• MUO (MakeUseOf): How to Use the ISEVEN and ISODD Functions in Excel

• MUO (MakeUseOf): Did You Know You Can Speak to ChatGPT?

• MUO (MakeUseOf): How to Count SQL NULL and NOT NULL Values in a Column

• MUO (MakeUseOf): How to Use the RANDARRAY Function to Randomly Sort Data in Excel

• MUO (MakeUseOf): The Top 20 Websites to Access Free Data for Practice

• MUO (MakeUseOf): How to Perform Calculations in Microsoft Word

• MUO (MakeUseOf): How to Convert Currencies in Excel

• MUO (MakeUseOf): How to Insert Cartoon People to Your PowerPoint Slides

• MUO (MakeUseOf): Fact Tables vs. Dimension Tables: Power BI

• MUO (MakeUseOf): How to Use the WRAPCOLS Function in Excel

• MUO (MakeUseOf): How to Use the WRAPROWS Function in Excel

• MUO (MakeUseOf): How to Use Excel's TEXTSPLIT, TEXTBEFORE, and TEXTAFTER Functions

• MUO (MakeUseOf): 6 Ways to Use ChatGPT as a Data Analyst

• MUO (MakeUseOf): How to Use VSTACK and HSTACK Functions in Excel

• MUO (MakeUseOf): 8 AI Features of Excel You Probably Didn’t Know About

• MUO (MakeUseOf): How to Import Data From SQL Server to Excel Using Power Query Easily

• MUO (MakeUseOf): How to Create a Date Table in Power BI

• Microsoft 365 and Power Platform Community Blog Power Query ETL Capabilities

• SolarWinds: What is Network Observability? - 5 Tools for Observability SolarWinds

• DeVZero:DORA Metrics Dashboard: How to Build One, with Examples

• TekkiGurus: Stripe Card Payment Features in Power Pages

• Comet ML: Exploring Generative Artificial Intelligence with PandasAI, OpenAI, and Comet LLM

• Comet ML: Text Summarization Modeling with ScikitLLM and Comet

• Hackernoon: How to Build a Recipe Generator AI Chatbot With Coze

• Hackernoon: How to Create Plugins From Scratch in Coze: CoinGecko

• Hackernoon: Beginner's Guide to Docker Image Deployment With Aptible (and Get a Free Shirt!)

• Hackernoon: How LLMs like ChatGPT Can Change the Way We Trade

• Hackernoon: Understanding Linux Containers Before Changing the World

• Hackernoon: Navigating Disruptive AI: Balancing Rapid Technological Advancement with Ethical Regulation

• Hackernoon: The Time-Traveler's Journey to Bitcoin Mining: A Tale Across Mining Eras

• Milvus on Dzone: cOMMUNITY: Build Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with Milvus

• Milvus on Dzone: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with Milvus and LlamaIndex

• The Social Proxy: Building a LinkedIn Profile Location Tracker: A Step-by-Step Guide to Mapping Social Media Movements

• Twilio: How to Send SMS with Messaging API and OpenAI API

• Jozu by KitOps: Free Online Tutorials to Help You Develop Machine Learning Applications. You can also check out the Dev.to link.

• Jozu by KitOps: 20 Open Source Tools I Recommend to Build, Share, and Run AI Projects. You can also check out the Dev.to link

• Jozu by KitOps: Jozu Hub vs. Docker Hub? Which One Works Best for AI/ML?. You can also check out the Dev.to link

Articles (As an editor)

• Stackify: What Is SDLC? Understand the Software Development Life Cycle
• Wrangle: 21 Slack Tips and Best Practices You Haven't Seen Before
• Wrangle: The Best Alternative to Auto-Replies in Slack
• Wrangle: The Ultimate Guide to Building Slack Workflows in 2023
• Stackify: 8 Key Application Performance Metrics & How to Measure Them
• Stackify: Best Log Management Tools: Useful Tools for Log Management, Monitoring, Analytics, and More
• Tek-Tools by Solarwinds: How To Optimize SQL Query Performance and Best Practices
• Workato: What is iPaaS? Integration Platform as a Service explained
• Tricentis: Exploratory Testing
• Tek-Tools by Solarwinds: Top Network Analysis Tools
• Enov8: What Makes a Good Enterprise Release Manager?
• Cloudbees: What is Jenkins?
• ngrok: Device Gateway: A Brief Introduction
• Solarwind Papertrail : What Your Router Logs Say About Your Network
• Solarwind Papertrail : Best Tips for Monitoring and Filtering Your Web Server Logs
• AccelData: Data pipeline tools
• SolarWinds: Incident Response Software - IT Cyber Security Tools
• AccelData: Data observability
• AccelData: What is Data pipeline?
• AccelData: What is Data pipeline architecture?
• Splunk: What's GRC? Governance, Risk & Compliance Explained
• Splunk: Vulnerabilities, Threats & Risk Explained
• Splunk: The CISO Role: What Does a Chief Information Security Officer Do?
• Loggly: Best Practices for Client-Side Logging and Error Handling in React
• Stackify: What Is MTTR? A Simple Definition That Will Help Your Team
• Workato: What is intent data? Plus 5 ways to use it effectively
• Workato: Application connectors: how they work and why they’re invaluable for integrating and automating at scale
• Workato: 5 data integration challenges to look out for (and the solutions for overcoming them)
• Workato: SaaS integration: what it is and 3 reasons why it’s important
• Workato: Service desk chatbot: what it is and 4 reasons why it’s valuable
• Workato: What is business process integration (BPI)?
• Workato: A complete guide to API development
• Workato: On-premise vs cloud: the differences to keep in mind and why integration is key to both
• Workato: What is application integration? Here’s what you should know
• Workato: Sales Automation: Here’s Everything You Need to Know Before Implementing It

Glossaries and FAQs

• SolarWinds Remote Desktop Services
• InfluxData: Extract Load Transform: The Basics, Explained
• Sematext: Certiifcate Chain
• Sematext: Memory Bottleneck
• Sematext: Observability
• Sematext: Observability Vs Monitoring
• Sematext: Service Level Agreement (SLA)
• Sematext: Service Level Indicator (SLIs)
• Sematext: Docker
• Sematext: IOPS (Input/Output Operations per Second)
• Sematext: Containers
• Sematext: Certificate Authority
• Sematext: Service Level Objectives: SLOs
• Sematext: Buffer Vs Cache
• Sematext: Anomaly Detection
• Ngrok: What is a site-to-site VPN?

Docs and QuickStarts

• docToolChain: Building Docs with docToolchain: A Quickstart Guide

Writing Contests

• Top 5 open-source writers in Hashnode 2021 October’s open-source symposium