Cloud

Cloud CLI

By Franck Pachot . Here is how to quickly install the CLI (Command Line Interface) for the following public clouds: Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle. On Linux, I’m using wget but you can use curl. I’ll install all cloud(…)

An always free 4 vCPU 3.0 GHz 24 GB RAM on OCI

By Franck Pachot . Oracle Cloud free tier is already outstanding since OOW19 with two VMs and two databases that you can leave always running without any risk of being billed or seeing them stopped. I(…)

DynamoDB / Aurora: sparse and partial indexes

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(…)

Working with multipass, a VM manager

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(…)

Should CPU-intensive logic be done in the DB or in application server?

By Franck Pachot . Should CPU-intensive logic be done in the DB or in application server? Here was a answer found in Reddit: Comment byu/CacheMeUp from discussion inPostgreSQL Reducing the(…)

Oracle Data Integrator Cloud

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(…)

Linux perf-top basics: understand the %

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(…)

Deploying a Kubernetes cluster on EC2 with Rancher

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(…)

Oracle DB on Azure with Multitenant Option

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(…)

SUSE Manager 4.1 – installation

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,(…)