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.

When memory utilization starts maxing out in Linux systems, performance degrades, and systems become unstable. This is especi...

Running Kubernetes is practically the norm. Every major cloud provider has built their own branded Kubernetes service. We hav...

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

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

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

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