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, 20212Apr 30, 20212
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, 20212Apr 4, 20212
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, 20201Sep 17, 20201
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, 20201May 28, 20201
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, 20191Dec 7, 20191
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, 20199Jan 19, 20199
Published inuptime 99Kubernetes HPA Autoscaling with Custom and External MetricsUsing GKE and Stackdriver MetricsJul 22, 20186Jul 22, 20186
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, 20185May 27, 20185
