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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(…)

AEM Forms – WebLogic Clustering synch issue for Workbench 2-way-SSL

In a previous blog, I described the process to setup the AEM Forms to allow the AEM Workbench to connect to AEM using “2-way-SSL”. This setup is normally independent of the Application Server that you are(…)

SLES15 SP1 – New features

With SLES15 SUSE introduced the Multimodal OS and the unified installer. Means, you only get what you really need. Your OS is flexible and you can easily add features you need and remove them as well. But this article shouldn't(…)

MariaDB 10.3.1x + 10.4.x : mysqld_multi not working properly

A couple of days ago, we upgraded some MariaDB instances on a consolidated database server. However, after the software update we were not able to manage our instances anymore using mysqld_multi whatever the MariaDB release (10.3.18 or the latest 10.4.x).

Patroni Operations – Changing Parameters

Sooner or later all of us have to change a parameter on the database. But how is this put into execution when using a Patroni cluster? Of course there are some specifics you have to consider. This post will give(…)

PostgreSQL 13 will come with partitioning support for pgbench

A lot of people use pgbench to benchmark a PostgreSQL instance and pgbench is also heavily used by the PostgreSQL developers. While declarative partitioning was introduced in PostgreSQL 10 there was no(…)

Provisioning a AKS cluster and KubeInvaders with Terraform

Provisioning a K8s infrastructure may be performed in different ways. Terraform has a connector called the Kubernetes provider but it doesn’t allow building and deploying a Kubernetes cluster. The cluster must be up and running before using the provider.

PostgreSQL check_function_bodies, what is it good for?

One of the probably lesser known PostgreSQL parameters is check_function_bodies. If you know Oracle, then you for sure faced "invalid objects" a lot. In PostgreSQL, by default, there is nothing like an invalid object. That implies(…)

AEM Forms – No SSLMutualAuthProvider available

In the process of setting up the AEM Workbench to use 2-way-SSL, you will need at some point to use a Hybrid Domain and a specific Authentication Provider. Depending on the version of the AEM that(…)