Infrastructure at your Service
By Franck Pachot . In a previous post I tried to build a glossary about Amazon DynamoDB terms that look like relational database terms, but with a different technical meaning. Here is more about it. If you work with AWS Databases and frequently switch between DynamoDB and Aurora, or other RDS databases, you may be confused by the same terms used for different meanings. An index is a redundant structure that is maintained by the…
Introduction What if you need quickly to launch virtual machine instances running Ubuntu for development and testing purposes. Multipass from Canonical can be the right tool for this. You can even customize the instances during launch by using Cloud-init in order to simulate a small cloud deployment from your laptop or desktop. So, in this short blog post, I will talk about this tool and demonstrate how easy it is to use it.
By Franck Pachot . Should CPU-intensive logic be done in the DB or in application server? Here was a answer found in Reddit: Comment from discussion xpiv’s comment from discussion "Should CPU-intensive logic be done in the DB or in application server?". Reducing the CPU usage on the database server is a major cost saver with commercial databases, like Oracle Enterprise Edition where you pay license per core. But even in Open Source, on-premises or…
Data and applications integration is always a technical challenge for most of the companies. All data integration tool ensures that information is timely, accurate, and consistent across complex systems. Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is different than traditional data integration tools in the sense it integrates data in a different orders. ODI is known as en E-LT because it Extracts data from the source system and Loads and Transforms data into the target system while traditional…
By Franck Pachot . Linux kernel has a powerful instrumentation that can be accessed easily. When you want to drill down into your program functions to understand their CPU usage, “perf” is the easiest. It can attach to the processes, sample the CPU cycles, get the symbol name, or even the call stack. And display an histogram of sample counts. This provides an easy profiling tool to understand in which function your program spends its…
Once Rancher is up and running, it makes the deployment and management of Kubernetes clusters quite easy. In this post we’ll deploy a brand new cluster on top of EC2. If you want to have a simple and quick Rancher playground you can follow this post, which will give you a Rancher setup on SLES 15. If you want to have a more production like Rancher setup, you can follow these posts: Rancher, up and…
By Franck Pachot . If you want to run an Oracle Database in the Microsoft Azure cloud, you will install it yourself on a VM. And then, you can expect the same as when you install it in your premises, in a virtual environment. Except that Oracle makes it two times more expensive by accepting to license the processor metric on vCPUs at the condition that the Intel core factor is not applied. And in…
What if you need absolute control over maintenance and package deployment or if you need to keep them up to date or if you need to automate the software management and the system provisioning with a high level of security, SUSE Manager is the right tool you need. In this blog post I will describe how to install the latest version of SUSE Manager 4.1.
When it comes to quickly provision a server in the Cloud, using an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool is a solution to consider. There are many IaC products available and among them, Terraform seems to be the most popular. The following is a non-exhaustive list of Terraform advantages : – Terraform can deploy infrastructure to multiple cloud service providers simultaneously – With Terraform, you can easily preview and validate infrastructure changes before they are applied…
By Franck Pachot . Looking at database performance has always been necessary to optimize the response time or throughput, but when it comes to public cloud where you are charged by resource usage, performance tuning is critical for cost optimization. When looking at host metrics, you see only the symptoms and blindly guess at some solutions: add more vCPU if CPU usage is high, more memory if I/O wait is high. And this can be…
