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Cleaning up your Linux server

Even in the best environments, a little housekeeping is necessary.

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PostgreSQL Replication Update

High availability, replication, and scaling are everyday necessities in the database world. What features does PostgreSQL offer in this context, and how good are they?

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Professional virtualization with RHV4

New and updated features in Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) 4, along with seamless provisioning of services between traditional and cloud workloads, could help RHV make up ground on VMware and Hyper-V.

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Grafana and time series databases

We look at database back ends for monitoring, alerting, and trending analysis in the Grafana visualization tool.

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Performance troubleshooting on Microsoft SQL Server

Use Microsoft SQL Server diagnostic tools to troubleshoot bottlenecks and other performance problems.

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OpenStack Trove for users, sys admins, and database admins

Trove brings DBaaS to OpenStack; however, the service needs meaningful configuration for optimum performance.

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The top three SSH tricks

Add extra security to your SSH service, securely copy files to and from remote computers, and configure passwordless SSH for automation scripting.

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Time-series-based monitoring with Prometheus

As Prometheus gave fire to mankind, the distributed monitoring software with the same name illuminates the admin's mind in native cloud environments, offering metrics for monitored systems and applications.