The Situation MariaDB, a fork of MySQL, has had multi-master clustering support from the the initial version 10 release. However, the more recent releases have made it increasingly easy to… Read More »How To: Database clustering with MariaDB and Galera.
So there I was yesterday minding my own business, working on some assigned tasks like the good little engineer I am. My break time comes around so I check my… Read More »Story: Well that was pleasantly unexpected; and pretty awesome!
The Situation Recently I had to update the database services in an number of environments. The reasons were the typical ones: performance, bug fixes, keeping-up-with-the-jones, etc. Like any good infra-… Read More »How-to: Easily update MariaDB from 10.0 onward on Cent OS 7
Like ’em or hate ’em paywalls have been around since the early days of the web. And from the business perspective I fully understand why they exist: At the end… Read More »Opinion: Bad pay-wall implementations and how to get around them.
The Situation Recently I was introduced to a new project. The getting started documentation was decent and I was able to get the project started up. When it came time… Read More »How to: Delete a stubborn Kubernetes namespaces.
Is VueJS worther your time? Like any other tech, tool it depends on the problem at hand. Read on to see if vueJS is the right tool for your job.
What is all this? The official documentation states “…k3s is a intended to be a fully compliant production-grade Kubernetes distribution with [the following] changes…”. But what does that mean in… Read More »Intro: k3s, a less needy Kubernetes.
The problem space… In today’s modern application development process an applications has many homes. Local development, (docker) containers, on premise Linux servers, maybe even Unix mainframes for production. Often an… Read More »Intro: Hashicorp `Packer`
From the AWS “Whats New” news feed: Posted On: Jul 11, 2019 The AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is now generally available in TypeScript and Python. AWS CDK is an… Read More »AWS IaC (Infrastructure as Code) is about to get a whole lot more interesting.
Using cloud resources can be accelerating to the business, liberating to the engineering teams, and expensive to bank account. If you have every left a large compute or database instance… Read More »Tagging with Terraform