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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,(…)

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(…)

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(…)

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(…)

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=#(…)

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(…)

My journey to KubeCon 2025

Wednesday, April 2nd. Today is my first day at the KubeCon 2025 in London. It’s 8 AM, I’m in the lobby of my hotel and I can already hear “HAProxy”, “NGINX”, “Pipeline”, and “Kubernetes” here and there. There is(…)

SQL Server AlwaysOn – Alert database Not Synchronizing / Suspect

Few days ago, through our alerting at the Service Desk, we receive an alert about a database in an AlwaysOn cluster with the message: CRITICAL: Database xxxx [replica: xxxxxx] [role: SECONDARY] state is SUSPECT, synchronization health is NOT_HEALTHY,(…)

Working with Btrfs & Snapper

In this Blog post I will try to give a pure technical cheat sheet using Btrfs on any distribution. Additionally I will explain how to use one of the most sophisticated backup/ restore tool called “snapper”. What is Btrfs(…)