Work has been keeping me pretty busy. I now get to play with tools like Splunk, Dynatrace, Coradiant, and HP OO.  I’ve been asking for more work and now I get to have more responsibility with those tools.

Splunk is like a giant syslog system. Ok, that’s an over simplification, but at a high level that’s what it can be considered along with adding MySQL and searching.

Dynatrace is more like a remote debugger that spies into into classes and methods as well as other generic data for .NET and Java. So far it seems pretty good.

Coradiant is a packet sniffer that does some network and traffic analysis for HTTP and HTTPS traffic.  You can run some advanced reports on it and get network latency and problems.

I’m not sure what to say about HP OO. It’s more of a workflow build some scripts because you can’t do that already with any of the 30 million programming languages already out there.

Well, these are the things i get to play with now. Sometimes boring, sometimes fun. But all in all they let me trouble shoot deeper problems.  Aside from those tools I also write some custom applications using Ruby, Python, C#, Perl, and C++.  I’m also playing with the .NET framework ( see previous C# language ) and Mono to see how far I can push some of the cross platform abilities.