Four 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.Apr 30, 2021A response icon2Apr 30, 2021A response icon2
Prometheus: 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…Apr 4, 2021A response icon2Apr 4, 2021A response icon2
Top Tools for Every Kubernetes ClusterI came across this tweet that asked what are the top 3 tools every Kubernetes cluster should have…Sep 17, 2020A response icon1Sep 17, 2020A response icon1
Published inThe 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…May 28, 2020A response icon1May 28, 2020A response icon1
Four Minute Papers: MapReduceFour minute papers (inspired by fourminutebooks.com) aims to condense computing white papers down to a four minute summary.Apr 19, 2020Apr 19, 2020
Database 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…Dec 7, 2019A response icon1Dec 7, 2019A response icon1
What 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 …Jan 19, 2019A response icon9Jan 19, 2019A response icon9
Published inuptime 99Kubernetes HPA Autoscaling with Custom and External MetricsUsing GKE and Stackdriver MetricsJul 22, 2018A response icon6Jul 22, 2018A response icon6
Published inITNEXTAutomated 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…May 27, 2018A response icon5May 27, 2018A response icon5
Kubernetes Authn/Authz with Google OIDC and RBACAWS + KopsJan 13, 2018A response icon5Jan 13, 2018A response icon5
