Found 195 results for: Platform Engineering
Cloud bills spiraling? A battle-hardened systems architect breaks down how to cut hosting costs in 2014 through kernel tuning, rightsizing, and leveraging local Norwegian infrastructure.
Microservices are trending, but the network complexity is killing reliability. Learn how to architect a 'Smart Pipe' infrastructure using HAProxy, Zookeeper, and KVM to stop cascading failures before they reach your users.
Moving from monolithic apps to distributed services requires a rethink of latency, I/O, and virtualization. We explore KVM tuning, Nginx load balancing, and why hosting in Oslo matters post-PRISM.
Vertical scaling hits a wall. Learn how to architect MySQL sharding strategies using GTIDs in MySQL 5.6, ensuring low-latency performance for Norwegian user bases.
Cloud PaaS is killing your budget. Learn how to deploy a high-performance, decoupled worker architecture using RabbitMQ and Node.js on dedicated KVM instances. The 'Serverless' future is actually just efficient system administration.
Before you commit to the 'No-Ops' hype of expensive managed platforms, learn how to architect true decoupled scalability using RabbitMQ, Celery, and high-performance SSD VPS. A guide for 2013's serious engineers.
It is late 2012. The days of MyISAM table locking should be behind us. We benchmark the new PostgreSQL 9.2 against the ubiquitous MySQL 5.5 to see which database engine deserves to power your Norwegian mission-critical infrastructure.
Is your hosting provider burning cash on cooling? We explore how Norway's hydropower and low PUE reduce costs and improve stability for mission-critical VPS.
Stop letting default my.cnf settings kill your application performance. We dive deep into MySQL 5.5 optimization, SSD utilization, and why latency to NIX matters for your Norwegian user base.
Stop trusting shared IPs with your business communications. A battle-hardened guide to configuring Postfix for maximum deliverability, speed, and security on a dedicated VPS environment.
Waking up at 3 AM to a crashed server is a rite of passage, but it shouldn't be a lifestyle. Learn how to combine Nagios for alerts and Munin for trends to secure your Norwegian infrastructure.
Is your Apache server capping out on RAM? It’s time to decouple. We explore how to implement the newly bundled PHP-FPM in PHP 5.3, tune process managers for traffic spikes, and leverage Nginx to handle concurrency without melting your hardware.
Is your application crawling despite clean code? The bottleneck is likely your my.cnf configuration or your host's disk I/O. We dive into MySQL 5.5 optimization and why hardware choice matters more than ever in 2011.
With Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems shaking the open source community, choosing the right database has never been more critical. We compare MySQL 5.1 and PostgreSQL 8.4 on performance, ACID compliance, and suitability for Norwegian enterprise hosting.
Is your MySQL 5.1 server choking under load? A battle-hardened guide to my.cnf optimization, InnoDB tuning, and why disk I/O is the silent killer of Norwegian web projects.