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2023.pgconf.eu – recap

This year’s edition of PostgreSQL Conference Europe finished last Friday, the 15th of December. It was the largest ever PostgreSQL Conference Europe with more than 700 attendees. For me the week already started on Monday, because(…)

HowTo – Enable & Disable traces on Documentum

If you are here, I assume you are looking for some ways to enable traces on Documentum. There are already a few blog posts here and there showing some information but Documentum being what it is, i.e., a quite complex(…)

HowTo – Detect and analyze long/stuck threads in Tomcat

Most Application Servers allow for long and/or stuck threads detection, to let you know that something is currently very slow, waiting on something or just simply stuck. On tomcat, this isn’t enabled by default, and you need to manually configure(…)

HowTo – Generate a custom AzureAD SSO Certificate

As you know, Azure Active Directory offers quite a big range of solution for Single Sign-On (SSO) with out-of-the-box capabilities and features that are quite good. But once the initial setup has been done, you will then need to manage(…)

HowTo – Create a quick Documentum rendition report

When working with any ECM solution, you will have to manage a rendition software. This is used to transform the native documents from most formats (docx, pptx, xlsx, txt, jpeg, png, svg, etc.) into another format (pdf, png, etc.). The(…)

Documentum – xPlore CPS temporary folder not being cleaned properly

At a customer using Documentum inside Kubernetes, unusually frequent restarts of xPlore containers were noted a couple weeks after the introduction of CPS Only pods on the different Production environments. The customer had a very simple Standalone xPlore setup, with(…)

ODA hybrid patching: 19.20/19.19

Introduction Patching your Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) is highly recommended: once a year being the minimum you could do. It prevents security risks, fixes some bugs and eventually provides new features. And it also keeps your appliance supported: according to(…)

New PostgreSQL service in OCI

PostgreSQL, an open-source relational database management system, offers robust features and capabilities for data storage and management. Deploying PostgreSQL within the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) provides a scalable and reliable environment. In this guide, we’ll explore the process of setting(…)

M-Files DACH Partner Days November 2023

On the 20th – 21st November 2023, I was honored to attend my first M-Files DACH Partner days hosted in Düsseldorf, Germany. The event took place in conference hotel van Valk located next to the Düsseldorf Airport. On the first(…)

JMeter Remote Testing

A typical web application architecture with a load balancer, two application servers and a database looks like this: If you run a JMeter, or any load test tool, from one unique server or workstation, the load balancer will most likely(…)