Category: Services
RePost: SQLite is not a toy database by Anton Zhiyanov
A nice write up about the very powerful but often under appreciated SQLite. Do not let anyone say otherwise, SQLite is a valid solution for…
A Practical Example of Container Portability: DynaTrace ActiveGate in AWS ECS
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Pre-Flight General Knowledge Requirements The Problem The Workload Scope While containers may be portable; orchestration feature coverage varies widely. For brevity this topic is out…
Postgres: The Graph Database You Didn’t Know You Had
by Dylan Paulus SQL engines and RDBMS are a battle tested, tried and true core technology of nearly every application. NoSQL for locally run applications,…
How To: Database clustering with MariaDB and Galera.
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…
How-to: Easily update MariaDB from 10.0 onward on Cent OS 7
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,…
Intro: k3s, a less needy Kubernetes.
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…
Top 5 articles from my blog from 2018
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2018 has been an eventful year for me personally. Here's the top 5 most popular articles from 2018.
Just how effective is web server caching? Very.
Learn how to setup a high load CMS for less than the cost of lunch.
Docker nginx-proxy round robin…
So we use docker for container services at work. One container that is part of our ‘dev’ tools is an nginx reverse proxy tied to…
Out of the box performance: PHP + PDO + MariaDB
Backstory: Another week, another evening at the Pub with some friends and colleges. Somehow or the other we got on the topic of database insert performance…