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6 Common DynamoDB Issues

DynamoDB, the primary NoSQL database service offered by AWS, is a versatile tool. It’s fast, scales without much effort, and best of all, it’s billed on-demand! These things make DynamoDB the first choice when a datastore is needed for a new project. But as with all technology, it’s not all roses. You can feel a little lost if you’re coming from years of working with relational databases. You’re SQL and normalization know-how doesn’t bring you much gain.

Announcing Grafana Mimir, the most scalable open source TSDB in the world

Today we’re introducing you to Grafana Mimir, the most scalable, most performant open source time series database in the world. Mimir allows you to scale to 1 billion metrics and beyond, with simplified deployment, high availability, multi-tenancy, durable storage, and blazing fast query performance that is up to 40x faster than Cortex. There’s supposed to be a video here, but for some reason there isn’t. Either we entered the id wrong (oops!), or Vimeo is down.

Monitoring Proxmox VE via Managed VictoriaMetrics and vmagent

In this blog post we’re going to walk you through how to monitor Proxmox VE via Managed VictoriaMetrics and its vmagent, including a step by step guide on how to set up, configure and visualise this environment. Proxmox VE is a complete, open-source server management platform for enterprise virtualization. It tightly integrates the KVM hypervisor and Linux Containers (LXC), software-defined storage and networking functionality, on a single platform.

Why DevOps is all about creating one team

A Contract Solutions Architect for a manufacturing software development company, Tonie Huizer has 20+ years’ experience working with Azure, SQL and other Microsoft technologies. A Microsoft Certified Azure Developer Associate, he has the knowledge to design, build, test, and maintain cloud applications and services on Microsoft Azure.

Flyway Desktop: Working with PostgreSQL

Flyway Desktop now supports PostgreSQL. Now you can take advantage of a hybrid development environment that allows you control your database objects in a state-based manner in development, but then take full advantage of a migrations approach for deployments. This makes using Flyway for automated deployments even easier to manage and implement.