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Integrate YaK into Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Introduction to YaK YaK is an open-source automation project developed by dbi services. Built on Ansible playbooks, YaK streamlines the deployment process for various components across any platform. It ensures adherence to best practices, maintains deployment quality, and significantly reduces(…)

How to: Restore a Nutanix virtual machine to AWS using HYCU R-CLOUD

In this blog I will show you how to restore a Nutanix virtual machine in AWS using HYCU R-CLOUD, formerly HYCU Protege. Context Our HYCU setup is composed of multiple environments, on premise in our datacenter and in the(…)

Migrating an Oracle database to another server

There are several situations when you have to migrate your Oracle databases to a new server. This could be due to hardware lifecycle reasons for on-prem systems or you need to upgrade your Operating System (OS) from Enterprise Linux 8(…)

Getting started with Open WebUI

Everybody is talking about AI, RAG and language models today. A lot of people are using ChatGPT or other tools to get answers(…)

What’s New in M-Files 25.3

I’m not a big fan of doing a post for each new release, but I think the last one is a big step towards what M-Files will tend to be in the coming months.M-Files 25.3, was(…)

PostgreSQL 18: Support for asynchronous I/O

This is maybe one the biggest steps forward for PostgreSQL: PostgreSQL 18 will come with support for asynchronous I/O. Traditionally PostgreSQL relies on the operating system to hide the latency of writing to disk, which is done synchronously and can(…)

Use a expired SLES with OpenSUSE repositories

Last week, I hit a wall when my SUSE Linux Enterprise Server license expired, stopping all repository access. Needing PostgreSQL urgently, I couldn’t wait for SUSE to renew my license and had to act fast.I chose to disable every SLES(…)

PostgreSQL 18: Add function to report backend memory contexts

Another great feature was committed for PostgreSQL 18 if you are interested how memory is used by a backend process. While you can take a look at the memory contexts for your current session since PostgreSQL 14, there was no(…)

PostgreSQL 18: Allow NOT NULL constraints to be added as NOT VALID

Before we take a look at what this new feature is about, let’s have a look at how PostgreSQL 17 (and before) handles “NOT NULL” constraints when they get created. As usual we start with a simple table: postgres=# select(…)

Best Practices for Structuring Metadata in M-Files

In one of my previous post, I talked about the importance of Metadata, it is the skeleton of efficient document management system and particularly in M-Files! As I like to say, M-Files is like an empty(…)