Cloud

A side quest in API development, observability, Kubernetes and cloud with a hint of database

Quite often people ask me what I actually do. I have a hard time giving a short answer. Even to colleagues and friends in the industry.

Here I will try to show and tell how I spent an evening digging around in a system I helped build for a client.

End of 2020 rough database landscape

There seems to exist a database for every niche, mood or emotion. And they seem to change just as fast.

How do you balance the urge for the new and shiny but without risking too much headache down the road?

This post is an attempt to lay out the rough landscape of databases that you might encounter or consider as of late 2020.

Mini-post: Down-scaling Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

We discovered today that some implicit assumptions we had about AKS at smaller scales were incorrect.

Disk performance on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) - Part 1: Benchmarking

Understanding the characteristics of disk performance of a platform might be more important than you think. If disk resources are not correctly matched to your workload, your performance will suffer and might lead you to incorrectly diagnose a problem as being related to CPU or memory.

Managed Kubernetes on Microsoft Azure (English)

In this post we will set up a Kubernetes cluster from scratch using Azure CLI.

Managed Kubernetes på Microsoft Azure (Norwegian)

I denne posten setter vi opp et Kubernetes cluster fra scratch ved bruk av Azure CLI.

Next generation monitoring with OpenTSDB

In this post we will provide a step by step guide on how to install a single-instance of OpenTSDB using the latest versions of the underlying technology, Hadoop and HBase. We will also provide some background on the state of existing monitoring solutions.