Patchday notes - VM stuck at boot (june 2022) Paid Members Public
On june's patchday it might happen that windows based VMs do not start correctly. Be sure to plan your patchdays ahead and be ready to fix any issues right away.
XDP for Windows - and it's open source Paid Members Public
XDP (eXpress Data Path) is a high performance, programmable network data path and Microsoft is working on an implementation for Windows.
openvpn data channel offload Paid Members Public
openvpn is working on offloading the data channel to kernel space. This is improving throughput by an order of magnitude according tests.
terraform - use nullable in variables for default values Paid Members Public
Writing terraform makes it easy to split code into modules. To avoid setting default values on each layer of the stack, use nullable to provide a way to fallback to the module's own default value.
upgrade postgres with timescaledb Paid Members Public
Upgrading postgres can be a challenging task, because databases are mostly in use. Having extensions like timescaledb introduces even more complexity. This guide shows a fast way to upgrade a postgres database with timescaledb.
freebsd 12.3 / pfsense 2.6 on hyper-v with low throughput Paid Members Public
Upgrading pfsense running on hyper-v to version 2.6 might result in a massive performance regression when the VMSwitch has RSC enabled.
Storage Spaces Direct / S2D - Disks stuck in maintenance mode Paid Members Public
Having a storage space direct cluster stuck in storage maintenance mode feels quite unlucky. Luckily we've fond a way to fix this!
Zabbix 6.0 - new major release Paid Members Public
While the whole world seems to run prometheus, zabbix is still on track and provides a whole set of new features on it's next major release: Zabbix 6.0. This post will give a brief overview about the (in my opinion) most important features. Baseline monitoring This is
