Blogs

team
Nov
5
2018

SQL data, time series, and awesome graphs using Grafana and Prometheus

Grafana has a lot of cool built-in drivers for connecting and running SQL against databases. You can see at a glance literally anything you can think of.

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team
Oct
30
2018

Optimizing Grafana and Prometheus rendering performance using Trickster

Trickster is a reverse proxy cache for the Prometheus HTTP APIv1 that dramatically accelerates dashboard rendering times for any series queried from Prometheus.

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team
Oct
29
2018

Basic Kubernetes Architecture – Video

Kubernetes is all the rage right now for several reasons: It’s the industry standard for deploying containers in production, it’s the new go-to in managing virtualized infrastructure, developers seem to love it, and it can run any containerized application (thanks to Cynthia Harvey for organizing these thoughts).

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team
Oct
19
2018

CI/CD in Kubernetes

Continuous improvement and continuous development (CI/CD) is a landmark of solid Linux and DevOps work, specifically in Kubernetes and Jenkins.

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team
Sep
18
2018

Nifty New features in PostgreSQL v10

We’ve collected a bunch of videos which explain all the new major features in one of our long-time favorite SQL databases – PostgreSQL.

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team
Sep
8
2018

Dockerizing a legacy virtual machine, such as Clarity LIMS

Recently we worked with an amazing biotech client on an initiative to shutdown internal self-hosted systems and move all services to “the cloud”.

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team
Sep
8
2018

Conference talk @ LinuxFest – Proxmox Hypervisor, LXC, and KVM

Back in April, Richard presented at LinuxFest NorthWest in Bellingham (Washington state) on using the Proxmox Hypervisor as a rich, easy to use, open source management platform for both LXC containers and KVM virtual machines.

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team
Aug
2
2018

Why we love Jenkins for CI/CD

Jenkins is a core part of our Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline for our clients. Here are the top 3 reasons we love Jenkins:

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team
Aug
2
2018

Why we love Kubernetes

Container based micro-service deployment has been a logical evolution of better managing large software systems and getting the most out of your server resources.

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team
Aug
2
2018

Why we love Salt Stack

With many diverse server systems to deploy, configure, and maintain for our clients, it is important to have a Managed Configuration and Orchestration platform.

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team
Aug
2
2018

Why we love Elasticsearch

Knowing what went wrong in the event of a failure is incredibly important. Elasticsearch provides storage for log level events across systems, creating a reliable and redundant way to store, search, and query critical system events.

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team
Jun
28
2018

DevOps tutorials

If you are just getting into DevOps, here is some reading and light homework to get you started: Read the Phoenix Project book by Gene Kim etc.

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