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Infrastructure as Craft: Variables vs Locals

As DevOps engineers, we often talk about “infrastructure as code,” but too rarely do we talk about code as a craft. ...

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Kafka Monitoring on Kubernetes with Datadog - Demo-3

You have deployed this new environment, but you realize maybe—it would be a good idea to monitor the performance, ...

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Taking Microsoft Fabric From Prototype to Production

Microsoft Fabric is a powerful, unified analytics platform that promises to bring all your data into one place.

Google Cloud

Analyzing a Movie Dataset Housed on MongoDB Through GraphQL - Part 1: Introduction & Mongo Database Setup

I’ll provide a quick start tutorial for GraphQL in this article. We'll start with an overview and then go into a small ...

Cassandra

An Introductory Guide on Deploying Cassandra Database using Ansible

Creating Cassandra_installation playbookDeploying a Cassandra database manually on hundreds of machines might be a ...

Snowflake

DataOps - Liquibase to Manage Changes in Snowflake

What is this about? Well, as the title implies, I will show how to set up Liquibase to manage changes in Snowflake as ...

DevOps

Neo4j cluster using Vagrant, Ansible and Virtualbox

Recently, I was faced with the need to create and configure a Neo4j cluster. In order to be able to easily experiment ...

DevOps

Top 5 Extreme Programming (XP) Tools Every Team Should Use

What is XP? Extreme Programming, or commonly known as "XP", is an Agile method with a primary focus on software ...

MySQL

RDS provisioning: A comparision between Ansible and Terraform

I recently had to compare these two configuration managers to provision MySQL environments in RDS. I had previous ...

DevOps

Encrypting sensitive data in puppet using hiera-eyaml

Puppet manifests can hold a lot of sensitive information. Sensitive information like passwords or certificates are used ...

Google Cloud

How to build a cost-effective serverless blogging platform on GCP - Part 1

I remember when I started blogging in 2008. It was a nice learning experience, and it was rewarding, too - both the ...

DevOps

Harnessing the power of Jinja2 with Ansible

Configuration files management is the core component of every configuration management tool. Templates are one of the ...

MySQL

Internals of querying the concurrent requests' queue - revisited for R12.2

Once upon a time I wrote about the Internal Workflow of an E-Business Suite Concurrent Manager Process. Many things ...

Oracle

Automation, PowerShell and Word Templates - let the technician do tech

In my work as a Database Consultant, I enjoy technical challenges, but it's always a painful process when I need to ...

Cassandra

How to build your very own Cassandra 4.0 release

Over the last few months, I have been seeing references to Cassandra 4.0 and some of its new features. When that ...

Cassandra

Cassandra Vulnerability - CVE-2020-13946 - Apache Cassandra RMI Rebind Vulnerability

On September 1, 2020, Apache disclosed a security vulnerability for Apache Cassandra. Summary: It's possible for a ...

MySQL

Exporting custom metrics to influxdb

In the TICK stack (Telegraf, InfluxDB, Chronograf, Kapacitor) from InfluxData, Telegraf serves as the crucial "T"—the ...

MongoDB

Difference between Oracle's table and Mongo's collection

Roughly speaking, the notion of 'Tables' in Oracle is similar to MongoDB's 'Collections'. They are NOT identical ...

Oracle

Installing Oracle 18c using command line

Introduction Just three days ago Oracle released Oracle 18c for general installation on-premises. We've had a taste of ...

Cassandra

Cassandra CQL cheatsheet

Context: Every now and then I find myself looking for a couple of commands I do often. In some other ...

Cassandra

Cassandra backups using nodetool

Cassandra nodetool provides several types of commands to manage your Cassandra cluster. See my previous posts for an ...

Oracle

What you should know about Docker Containers for Oracle Data Integrator

Not long ago, Oracle adopted the Docker engine as one of the accepted platforms for its products and published a set of ...

MySQL

Debugging MySQL on Docker

Problem Statement In a recent post, my colleague and teammate Peter Sylvester explained how we could customize MySQL's ...

Cassandra

Cassandra as a time series database

Reasons When I think of Time series databases, my first thoughts go to my own experiences using a relational database ...

Oracle

Let DataGuard Broker Do ALL The Work

Why bother implementing the Oracle Data Guard Broker? The short answer is that it handles the heavy lifting of ...

DevOps

Deploying a private Geth network using Docker

So you’ve started developing an Ethereum project and TestRPC has worked wonderfully. Now you're ready to set up a CI/CD ...

Google Cloud Platform

How to Connect from Cloud Functions to the Private IP Address of Cloud SQL in Google Cloud

Cloud functions allow you to run single-purpose functions without having to manage instances in Google Cloud. Cloud SQL ...

DevOps

How to Secure Your Elastic Stack (Plus Kibana, Logstash and Beats)

Editor’s Note: Because our bloggers have lots of useful tips, every now and then we bring forward a popular post from ...

Cloud

How to Use DockerSlim to Reduce Image Sizes

Learn how to test the capabilities of docker-slim on Java and Python images and containerized Spring and Flask apps. If ...

Oracle

Automating Scripts Via SSH

Have you ever logged on to a Linux machine, only to be greeted by a prompt requesting you make some choice? It’s ...

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Infrastructure as Craft: Variables vs Locals

Kafka Monitoring on Kubernetes with Datadog - Demo-3

Taking Microsoft Fabric From Prototype to Production

Analyzing a Movie Dataset Housed on MongoDB Through GraphQL - Part 1: Introduction & Mongo Database Setup

An Introductory Guide on Deploying Cassandra Database using Ansible

DataOps - Liquibase to Manage Changes in Snowflake

Neo4j cluster using Vagrant, Ansible and Virtualbox

Top 5 Extreme Programming (XP) Tools Every Team Should Use

RDS provisioning: A comparision between Ansible and Terraform

Encrypting sensitive data in puppet using hiera-eyaml

How to build a cost-effective serverless blogging platform on GCP - Part 1

Harnessing the power of Jinja2 with Ansible

Internals of querying the concurrent requests' queue - revisited for R12.2

Automation, PowerShell and Word Templates - let the technician do tech

How to build your very own Cassandra 4.0 release

Cassandra Vulnerability - CVE-2020-13946 - Apache Cassandra RMI Rebind Vulnerability

Exporting custom metrics to influxdb

Difference between Oracle's table and Mongo's collection

Installing Oracle 18c using command line

Cassandra CQL cheatsheet

Cassandra backups using nodetool

What you should know about Docker Containers for Oracle Data Integrator

Debugging MySQL on Docker

Cassandra as a time series database

Let DataGuard Broker Do ALL The Work

Deploying a private Geth network using Docker

How to Connect from Cloud Functions to the Private IP Address of Cloud SQL in Google Cloud

How to Secure Your Elastic Stack (Plus Kibana, Logstash and Beats)

How to Use DockerSlim to Reduce Image Sizes

Automating Scripts Via SSH

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