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A simple Terraform script to create an AWS EC2 playground

When I started to write the blog about AWS SSM I quickly realized that I need a way to bring up and destroy my AWS EC2 playground in an easy and reproducible way. There are several(…)

odacli create-database error DCS-10802: Insufficient disk space on file system: database

Introduction I was reimaging an X6-2M ODA after various patching troubles, and everything was fine. After several databases created, the next ones could no more be created. DCS-10802: Insufficient disk space on file system: database. Expected free space (MB): {1},(…)

Avoiding patching madness by using AWS SSM

As we have more and more customers either currently moving to AWS or already moved much, if not even all, of their workloads to AWS, one question pops up quite frequently: Now that we have so(…)

Connection pooling with PgBouncer

Some of you may know the case: As soon as the number of users grow, the number of resource problems increases. Have you ever thought about using a connection pooler? Too complex, too much administration effort? In this post I(…)

How to scale up a Patroni cluster

During the preparation of my presentation for the pgconf.eu I ran into one big issue. I had to stop my cluster to add a new node. That was not the way I wanted to archive this. I want a high(…)

Galera Cluster 4 with MariaDB 10.4.8

Last month, by a new customer I had to install the latest version of the MariaDB server: 10.4.8 to setup a Galera Cluster with 3 master nodes. The good news was that this version was shipped with the latest(…)

Create a Kubernetes cluster with Google Kubernetes Engine

Nowadays the market for cloud providers is very competitive. Large companies are fighting a very hard battle over the services they provide. Each offers a wide range of more or less identical products with specific features for each. In my(…)

Handling PostgreSQL installations from packages

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pg_auto_failover: Setup and installation

When I attended PGIBZ 2019 earlier this year, I talked with Dimitri about pg_auto_failover and I promised to have a look at it. Well, almost half a year(…)

AEM Forms – Certify PDF end-up with NoSuchMethodError on bouncycastle

As part of an AEM project, we were working on setting up a few actions on PDF files. One of these actions was to Sign & Certify a PDF file. The basic Sign & Certify action provided by AEM is(…)