Thursday, June 6, 2019

Graceful shutdown of forked workers in Python and JavaScript running in Docker containers

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You might encounter a situation where you want to fork a script during execution. For example if the amount of forks is dependent on user in...
Saturday, June 1, 2019

Performance! 3 reasons to stick to Java 8 for the moment

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It is a smart thing to move to newer versions of Java! Support such as security updates and new features are just two of them but there are ...
Saturday, March 23, 2019

6 tips to make your life with Vagrant even better!

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HashiCorp Vagrant is a great tool to quickly get up and running with a development environment. In this blog post I'll give some tips to...
Saturday, March 16, 2019

Using Python to performancetest an Oracle DB

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Performance testing is a topic with many opinions and complexities. You can not do it in a way which will make everyone happy. It is not str...
Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Filesystem events to Elasticsearch / Kibana through Kafka Connect / Kafka

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Filesystem events are useful to monitor. They can indicate a security breach. They can also help  understanding how a complex system works b...
Saturday, February 16, 2019

Minikube on KVM on Linux Mint 19.1

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In a previous blog post I wrote about running Minikube on Windows. I ended with the suggestion that getting Minikube working might be much e...
Friday, February 15, 2019

Some challenges with Oracle Reports 12.2.1.3

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Oracle Reports has been around for a long time and future versions will most likely not be created  (see here ). Hence this is going to be m...