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Forging Bare-Metal; Introducing MoltenCore

What would my Cloud look like if I could start fresh and, moreover, if I could pick any technology I wanted? This exact opportunity happened to me during the preparations for the European Cloud Foundry Summit 2019 in The Hague, because Stark & Wayne agreed to sponsor the Hands-On Labs sessions. This meant we would

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Debugging Slow BOSH Deployed PostgreSQL

Photo by Vincent van Zalinge on Unsplash Something is just not quite right, the CLI is sluggish and your senses are tingling that something is wrong. Is it the database? Maybe. How do you know? pgBadger is a nifty tool that reads through postgres logs and generates a report showing slow queries, table locks, DML

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Project Management Toolbelt: The tools you need to succeed, Part 1.

Introduction I had an important life lesson drilled into me at a young age… Use the right tool for the job. Of course the devil is always in the details, so how do you know which tool is the right one? Let’s quickly go over a few of the basic project management styles, and talk

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Public Bare Metal CF Cheaper than Public Cloud CF!  Whoa!

Cloud Foundry Summit EU is over and, as part of our servant leadership culture at Stark & Wayne, we reflect on what we’ve learned. First, we want to thank the Cloud Foundry Foundation for offering us the opportunity to sponsor the Hands-On Labs (HOL) and in particular, Chris Clark, for keeping everyone organized and on

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Kpack, oh kpack, wherefore art thou build logs?

Any CI/CD is just like a serverless platform or PaaS: you run other people’s code. The difference? With a platform you expect the code to work. With CI/CD you’re waiting for things to fail. So you can fix them. Until they work. Hopefully. And to fix them you need logs. kpack is a new open

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Too Many Open Files: A Fence or an Ambulance

Today I was researching an error message for a client that contained the error: Too many open files Usually this leads to answers like “change the file limit”. But this is using an ambulance when we need a fence. What do I mean by that? When I was in elementary school a man came to

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Where is PostgreSQL Getting That $%&^ing Configuration Parameter From?

​ Photo by Steve Smith on Unsplash Like a squirrel looking for a lost nut, finding where a configuration parameter is being set in PostgreSQL can be a pain in the (fluffy) tail. For example, the log_min_duration_statement which is used to configure the threshold duration of a query before it is logged can be set

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Hands-On Labs: Excellent Adventures

The Hands-On Labs continues its illustrious journey, at CF Summit Europe, located in The Foundry. Attendees bring their own laptops and they leave with insights on how to incorporate the concepts shared in the labs. What makes these labs useful to the attendees, besides the subject matter, is they are learning from Cloud Foundry experts

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Which Version of a BOSH Release is Deployed Where?

It’s time for some good jq magic. I need to know where a specific release is deployed in the current environment. I also need to know which version of that release is deployed in each spot. Specifically, I’m checking for shield, but you can change RELEASE_NAME to whatever you want. export BOSH_ENVIRONMENT=my-bosh-directorexport RELEASE_NAME=shield bosh deployments

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