In my technical journey, I struggled to find a simple tool that gave me the flexibility to collect and deliver data to other monitoring tools. Until, one day, I found it. … The year was 2007, during a rainy season in Florida. Heavy rain pound on the roof. Earth shattering thunder clapped me out of a light sleep. I was tired and frustrated. For days I had been struggling to create the logic with Bash scripts and CSV files for what was to become a paging alert system for Solaris (which executes cr...