In this blog post, we’ll walk you through the process of moving a demo WordPress site from a home lab server to a cloud-hosted VM on Linode. Not long ago, I decided…
Serverless Has a Server, And Humans Have to Maintain It
Introduction Serverless architecture has emerged as a popular approach to building and deploying applications in recent years. It enables developers to focus on writing code without worrying about the underlying infrastructure required…
Kubernetes Bitnami WordPress Backup: Do it With Perl
Not long ago, I wrote a post over here Kubernetes Bitnami WordPress Manual Backup that explains how to manually backup the database and wp-content for WordPress sites that are installed with the…
The Bad Side of Trying to Use NoSQL as a Relational Database
SQL-type database languages have been around for many decades. Over time they have been revised and tightened up to make a data query language that can merge data across many servers, databases,…
Time-series Data, Much More Simple Than It Seems
Time series observability comes down to one simple thing, does the data point at this time stamp match preset conditions? This is in no way oversimplifying the situation. Monitoring a data point…
Useful Linux Commands No Matter What Level of the Container Stack You Work At
As I worked through this project, I started to realize that there are a lot of Linux commands that I take for granted as I am so used to using them. In…
Near Real-time Data Monitoring: A Simple JavaScript
Sometimes simple is better Monitoring an Elasticsearch index, well, any index for that matter, is not as complex as it may seem. Some use cases can seem deeply complex, as in, only…
Pseudo Relational NoSQL
I was thinking about SQL and NoSQL yesterday as I explained the difference to my daughter. More or less the difference between relational and non-relational. As I explained it to her, something…
Elasticsearch, Ponderings on Resources
Important Decisions. Today we live in a world of big data. What we thought of as big data only a few years ago is now insignificant compared to the amount of data…
Side Trek: Orbital Mechanics
For the last few years, I have been doing data analytics experiments using the Elite Dangerous Journal logs and the EDDN live feed. This game produces a lot of data in JSON…