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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(…)

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(…)