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Windocks and K8s support

I got recently the 4.08 update from the Windocks team and I was very excited to evaluate some of new features. The first cool one I want to present in this blog concerns the Kubernetes support(…)

work Agile in a GxP-regulated environment

On 4 June 2019 I followed an invitation to wega-it’s Know-how & Networking Breakfast 2 2019 on “Agile Validation in GxP Projects”. So they were to discuss Agility in the context of GxP regulation. I had some earlier exposure to(…)

Evenement Oracle : Dans la tête d’un Hacker & Comment protéger vos données sensibles

By Mouhamadou Diaw Pour une fois un blog en français parce que concernant un événement Oracle en Français. Aujourd’hui chez Oracle Suisse à Genève, il y’avait une présentation concernant la sécurité Oracle. Il s’agissait de se mettre à(…)

PostgreSQL on the beach, PGIBZ, recap

So, finally, PostgreSQL on the beach is over. During discussions it was mentioned that some companies had issues to justify sending people to a conference to Ibiza. It was not really clear if they wanted to avoid the impression of(…)

In-person event (June 11,2019) Ansible Automates – Bern

A couple of weeks ago, I found in my inbox an invitation from Red Hat concerning an event organized in Bern about Ansible. I heard a lot about Automation but did not really know what can or could be(…)

PostgreSQL partitioning (8): Sub-partitioning

We are slowly coming to the end of this little series about partitioning in PostgreSQL. In the last post we had a look at indexing and constraints and today we will have a look at sub partitioning. Sub partitioning means(…)

Connecting to a Repository via a Dynamically Edited dfc.properties File (part II)

This is part II of the 2-part article. See for part I of this article. Testing We will test on the host machine named(…)

Connecting to a Repository via a Dynamically Edited dfc.properties File (part I)

Now that we have containerized content servers, it is very easy, maybe too easy, to create new repositories. Their creation is still not any faster (whether they are containerized or not is irrelevant here) but given a configuration file it(…)

An exotic feature in the content server: check_client_version

A few months ago, I tripped over a very mysterious problem while attempting to connect to a 7.3 CS docbase from within dqMan. We had 3 docbases and we could connect using this client to all of them but(…)

SUSE Expert Days 2019 in Lausanne

dbi services is now SUSE Solution Partner. What better way to celebrate that than to attend an event? Last week I was at the SUSE Expert Days 2019 which took place at(…)