IT Leader, Mentor, and Speaker

As a seasoned IT leader with a passion for technology, I'm excited to share my insights on industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies. Join me as I explore the latest developments in cloud computing, devops, agile methodologies, and more. My blog is a mix of technical and analog life observations. I do not have a regular posting cadence, but I do try to keep this feed fairly current.

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I recently mentioned PgBadger in my PostgreSQL tuning article, and it really deserves a post of its own. Pgbadger is a very...

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PgBouncer is a connection pooler for PostgreSQL. It can be used to improve the performance of PostgreSQL by reducing the n...

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PostgreSQL is an open-source relational database management system emphasizing extensibility and SQL compliance. It is a pow...

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Minikube is an open-source tool that enables developers to run a single-node Kubernetes cluster locally on their machines....

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Kubernetes noisy neighbors are one or more pods or workloads running on a cluster consume an excessive amount of resources, n...

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Red Hat OpenShift is an enterprise container platform based on Kubernetes, offering simplified application development, deplo...

The Department of Defense (DoD) has made a number of changes to the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program...

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It's a question I have often considered. Even though I do not consider myself to be a developer, I do write a fair amount of...

Kafka is a complex system with many different components (zookeepers, brokers, producers, consumers, etc) that need to be tun...