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Migrating PostgreSQL from one version to another has become pretty easy. Using pg_upgrade it takes a few seconds to upgrade even a 100GiB database. It becomes interesting when you switch platforms, say from 32bit to 64bit, as we are facing it with…

We have been using Ceph since 0.7x back in 2013 already, starting when we were fed up with the open source iSCSI implementations, longing to provide our customers with a more elastic, manageable, and scalable solution. Ceph has generally fulfilled…

As we are in the preliminary phase of releasing our new NixOS based platform as a stable, security related topics gain further momentum. The question of how and when a system is affected by a security flaw is certainly not only related to our…

Our 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…

Why 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…