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I'm Walter Macomber. I write clear, no-nonsense guides on SRE, DevOps, distributed systems, and the useful miscellany I had to figure out the hard way. No ads. No popups. Just signal.

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Docker + Graylog
How to quickly get Graylog running in docker.
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How to quickly get RabbitMQ running in docker.
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