Tag: Technical Blog

What’s Airflow? Apache Airflow is an open source scheduler built on Python. It uses a topological sorting mechanism, called a DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph) to generate dynamic tasks for execution according to dependency, schedule, dependency task completion, data partition, and/or…

Some time ago I was doing a maintenance on an OVM and noticed that it had significant number of disks without mapping to any virtual machine (I need to mention that the OVM cluster was a home for more than…

Gleb Otochkin, Principal Consultant and Certified Oracle Expert at Pythian, discusses Oracle’s recently released new beta 12.1.0.2.6 version for the Orachk utility, and why Oracle DBAs should be using it.

Based on previous findings on CPU counting in public clouds, we look at an example where it makes a big difference: software licensing, particularly Oracle. Additional licensing costs resulting from CPU counting can dwarf any cost savings on infrastructure. We talk about how this happens, and show an example.

After looking at how virtual CPUs are handled in Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, we explore CPU definitions and CPU performance under the Google Compute Engine platform.

Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c uses a considerable amount of RAM and CPU resources; here are a few tips to shoehorn it into a 2GB virtual machine.

Normally when using Avro files as input or output to a MapReduce job, you write a Java main[] method to set up the Job using AvroJob. That documentation page does a good job of explaining where to use AvroMappers, AvroReducers,…

Creating a Consul Client Docker Image In my previous post, I demonstrated how to create a cluster of Consul servers using a pre-built Docker image. I was able to do this because our use case was simple: run Consul. In…

Today I would like to demonstrate the use of Consul to help achieve loose coupling and discovery of services, two important principles of service-oriented architecture (SOA) present in modern, elastic infrastructures. If you have ever designed an architecture to be…

After observing CPU core sharing with Amazon Web Services EC2, I thought it would be interesting to see if Microsoft Azure platform exhibits the same behavior. Signing up for Azure’s 30-day trial gives $200 in credit to use over the…