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Automated patching at Idorsia with AWS Systems Manager

Servers patching is very important but can be very challenging. One of our customers, Idorsia Pharmaceuticals Ltd implemented successfully AWS Systems Manager (SSM) to automate patching not only of instances running in AWS Cloud but also covering on-premises(…)

Installing MySQL InnoDB Cluster in OKE using a MySQL Operator

During previous months, I've had some time to satisfy my curiosity about databases in containers and I started to test a little bit MySQL in Kubernetes. This is how it all began...

Striim, real-time data integration

In my first blog-post about Striim, I showed you how to create an Initial Load from an on-premise database to an Azure SQL DB. In this second blog post I will create an application which will stream Data(…)

Striim, first step

In this blog-post I will discuss about my first test with Striim. Striim is a data integration platform which can ingest real-time data from a variety of sources (SQL Server, Oracle, Kafka, Hadoop…) and quickly deliver it to Cloud(…)

What I really like about Percona PMM

Percona Monitoring and Management tool (PMM) is an Open Source product which was developed to help DBAs and developers to monitor and manage MySQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB performances. In this blog post, we will see that we(…)

AWS CLI tips and tricks

When working with AWS, I would not advice to run all operations through the AWS Console. And it’s not always possible or easy to do it only with pipelines and Infrastructure as Code. Sometimes, we just need to perform the(…)

dbi services at AWS re:Invent 2021 : day 4

For my day 3 recap, please jump here. The fourth day has started and I decided to attend a couple of session. Both are not in my direct field of expertise but promised to be very interesting.

AWS re:Invent 2021 – 4th day

On Thursday morning, I attended the keynote Dr Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon. I have the feeling it’s one of the most awaited keynote, Werner Vogels is not just launching new services but also provide a better view on the(…)

dbi services at AWS re:Invent 2021 : day 3

For my day 2 recap, please jump here. Third day started and Las Vegas woke up (or maybe more, never sleeps! 🙂 ! ) Organized every morning by AWS, a breakfast is served in a huge(…)

AWS re:Invent 2021 – 3rd day

Time flies, it’s already the 3rd day at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas. As I like to have dedicated time for hands-on I started again the day with another workshop. It’s a lot of knowledge to process daily,(…)