What are init containers and why do you need them?
Author: Gaurav Yadav
Gaurav is cloud infrastructure engineer and a full stack web developer and blogger. Sportsperson by heart and loves football. Scale is something he loves to work for and always keen to learn new tech. Experienced with CI/CD, distributed cloud infrastructure, build systems and lot of SRE Stuff.
What is File Integrity Monitoring and how to implement it?
What is File Integrity Monitoring and how to implement it?
Redis 6.0.0 stable is out and here are the things we liked about it.
Today we got the news that Redis 6.0.0 stable is out just after 4 months (as quoted by the maintainer) after the RC1(release candidate 1). So let’s have a quick look at what we liked the most. RDB files are faster to load This is a big value for those who are running Redis Clusters
Redis bgsave taking a lot of memory. Here is the reason.
In recent times, I was working with Redis clusters which have very high throughput. While doing this we came across a problem which was Redis bgsave was taking a lot of memory sometimes almost as the same memory as the data present in the memory. In this small writeup, we will see why this happened.
What is Copy on Write and where is it used?
Recently while working with one of the databases I came across a method that is widely used by many databases to take a snapshot of the memory into a disk. One of the most famous that you have heard of is Redis. The method is called copy on write. Let’s see what is a copy
Key metrics to monitor in Redis and optimization settings
Hi everyone in our last post we talked about Redis monitoring using Prometheus and Grafana. When I posted this on a few forums I got a suggestion that I should write about key metrics to watch while monitoring Redis. So let’s start the article Key metrics to monitor in Redis and optimization settings. Below are
Redis monitoring using Prometheus and Grafana
We have seen in one of the past articles about Redis clustering and how we can take backup and restore it. In this, we are going to see how we can monitor Redis nodes using Prometheus and Grafana. If you don’t know about Prometheus and Grafana read about it here. Now let’s see how we
Redis Cluster backup and restore.
Redis is an in-memory cache or key-value store. You can save the keys and values and access them very fast as it resides in memory. You can also persist the data in the disk as it provides an option for the same. One of the most famous ways to use Redis is its clustering mode.
System Programming: Basic Copy program in C using low-level IO
In this article, we are going to start learning system programming by first of all creating a copy program like cp using low-level IO functions and not the standard IO functions. Now first let’s see what is system programming and what is low-level IO functions in C. System Programming: System programming aims at producing software
Do you know about the AIMD method in TCP congestion control?
In this article, we are going to talk about a very well known method to keep things under control. This method is used in TCP when you see there are congestion and many other places. This method is called AIMD which stands for Additive Increase Multiplicative Decrease. Let’s see what it is and how it