Jessica GFour Minute Paper: Facebook’s time series database, GorillaFour minute papers (inspired by fourminutebooks.com) aims to condense computing white papers down to a four minute summary.2 min read·Apr 30, 2021--2--2
Jessica GPrometheus: Fill in Data for New Recording RulesRecently I merged a pull request into Prometheus that adds support to create past data for new recording rules. This work was for…6 min read·Apr 4, 2021--2--2
Jessica GTop Tools for Every Kubernetes ClusterI came across this tweet that asked what are the top 3 tools every Kubernetes cluster should have…2 min read·Sep 17, 2020--1--1
Jessica GinThe StartupMigrating from Postgres to CockroachDB: bulk loading performanceI recently migrated a large database (~400GB) from PostgreSQL over to CockroachDB. This blog is a recap of my process and also of some of…8 min read·May 28, 2020----
Jessica GFour Minute Papers: MapReduceFour minute papers (inspired by fourminutebooks.com) aims to condense computing white papers down to a four minute summary.2 min read·Apr 19, 2020----
Jessica GDatabase Family TreeThere are a bunch of different databases out there. When a new database is created, often it’s an iteration of something that already…2 min read·Dec 7, 2019--1--1
Jessica GWhat is the difference between a process, a container, and a VM?Many people ask “What is the difference between a VM and a container?”, but in my opinion a more interesting question is …7 min read·Jan 19, 2019--8--8
Jessica Ginuptime 99Kubernetes HPA Autoscaling with Custom and External MetricsUsing GKE and Stackdriver Metrics7 min read·Jul 22, 2018--6--6
Jessica GinITNEXTAutomated TLS with cert-manager and letsencrypt for KubernetesDid you ever dream of the day where there would be free TLS certs that were automatically created and renewed when a new service shows up…4 min read·May 27, 2018--5--5