Blog & News
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Automatic installation of Oracle Java
Erstellt von Christian Zagrodnick | | BlogOur customers at times require Oracle Java for their applications. Our new platform is based on NixOS. As with most Linux distributions, Oracle Java cannot be installed just like that. Oracle's license prevents redistribution or direct downloading…
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Thoughts on systems management methods
Erstellt von Christian Kauhaus | | BlogWhy Order Matters: Turing Equivalence in Automated Systems Administration (by Steve Traugott and Lance Brown) 15 years ago has been a career-changing moment for me. In this blog post, I will explore the meaning of some of the points made in this…
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Improving Ceph OSD start-up behaviour with vmtouch
Erstellt von Christian Kauhaus | | BlogWe have a love/hate relation ship with Ceph. On one hand, it is probably the best open source distributed storage around. On the other hand, Ceph repeatedly exhibits unexpected behaviour under high load. And it is absolutely correct that you expect…
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batou - recent improvements and roadmap update
Erstellt von Christian Theune | | Blogbatou is our open source web application deployment utility. We use it to perform simple and complex application deployments on top of the Flying Circus platform as well as into Vagrant VMs or local developer instances.
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Debugging web application performance with HAProxy – Part 2
Erstellt von Christian Zagrodnick | | BlogWelcome back. In part one, we discussed the basics of reading haproxy logs - today we'll look further.