Yesterday I realized that when my primary test cluster became the production cluster that runs this site, I had not thought anything about how to back up the WordPress and MariaDB pods…
Thinking About System Memory
Memory has always been one of the most watched metrics in computer systems. Starting back in the mid to late 1940s during the time of Univac with its huge 6 bits of…
The New Resource Battle: IOPS vs. RAM
Digging through the anals of computer history and system design, there is a constant across all systems at all times; the battle for resources. In most cases, this battle comes down to…
The Road From Pure Linux Admin to DevOps
When I first decided that I would jump into Kubernetes, I sort of realized but did not fully realize that I was also entering the world of DevOps. The longer I work…