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Silence the Noise: A Pragmatic Guide to Infrastructure Monitoring at Scale

· CoolVDS Team

Stop relying on passive ping checks. This guide details how to architect a robust Prometheus and Grafana stack for high-traffic environments, handling NVMe I/O bottlenecks and ensuring GDPR compliance in the post-Schrems II era.

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Kubernetes Networking Deep Dive: Surviving the Overlay Network Tax

· CoolVDS Team

Kubernetes networking is often treated as a black box until production latency spikes. We analyze CNI choices, IPVS vs iptables, and why underlying hardware stability is critical for overlay networks in the post-Schrems II era.

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Beyond Green Dashboards: Why Monitoring Fails and Observability Saves Your Stack

· CoolVDS Team

It is late 2020. Stop relying on simple ping checks and CPU graphs. We break down the architectural shift from Monitoring to Observability, how to handle high-cardinality data without crashing your budget, and why Schrems II makes self-hosting your metrics in Norway a legal necessity.

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Kubernetes vs. Docker Swarm: The 2021 Infrastructure Reality Check

· CoolVDS Team

With Kubernetes 1.20 deprecating Docker support, the orchestration wars are heating up again. We dissect the trade-offs between K8s complexity and Swarm simplicity, while proving why underlying NVMe storage is the only metric that truly matters for cluster stability.

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API Gateway Latency: Tuning Nginx for Sub-Millisecond Performance

· CoolVDS Team

Is your API gateway becoming a bottleneck? Learn how to tune the Linux kernel and Nginx for high-throughput, low-latency traffic. We cover file descriptors, TCP stack optimization, and why hardware selection matters more than code in 2020.

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Container Security in 2021: Why Your Dockerfile is a Liability

· CoolVDS Team

It is late 2020, and running containers as root is still the industry's most dangerous habit. From dropping capabilities to navigating the post-Schrems II landscape in Norway, here is how to lock down your infrastructure before the next CVE hits.

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Orchestration Wars: Kubernetes vs. Swarm vs. Nomad in a Post-Schrems II World

· CoolVDS Team

It is late 2020. Kubernetes has won the marketing war, but does your architecture actually require that level of complexity? We analyze the trade-offs between K8s, Docker Swarm, and HashiCorp Nomad, focusing on overhead, persistence, and why running these on compliant Norwegian NVMe VPS is critical for GDPR.

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GitOps Workflows: Stop SSH-ing into Production (2020 Edition)

· CoolVDS Team

Manual deployments are a liability. In a post-Schrems II world, learn how to implement a pull-based GitOps workflow using ArgoCD on Kubernetes, ensuring compliance and stability in Norwegian infrastructure.