Articles from ADMIN Issue 73
No, you're not mistaken and not imagining things. I've written about the Great Resignation, the Great Stay Put, and now the Great Layoff.
The JUPITER supercomputer is set to become the first European exascale computing system, according to a recent agreement...
Demand for cloud databases continues to increase, not only because of better scalability and availability, but because of lower investment and operating costs. We'll look at some of the limitations.
The Google Cloud Platform offers a wide range of different databases for various purposes.
Legacy databases are regarded as stateful applications and, theoretically, not a good fit for containers. We reveal how classic SQL can still work well on Kubernetes and the database options available to SMEs for scale-out environments.
Vitess relies on various techniques to scale MySQL horizontally, while looking like the popular database from the outside. But does it deliver what its authors promise?
The world of scale-out is stateless; unfortunately, databases are not. YugabyteDB solves this dilemma for PostgreSQL.
Automated acceptance testing is a powerful tool for catching problems related to misconfiguration. We'll show you how to implement your own acceptance testing environment with a free tool called goss.
Chocolatey and WinGet offer full-fledged package management on Windows, but which is best for your environment?
The declarative PowerShell Desired State Configuration extension supports easy and transparent configuration of systems and applications. We describe the fairly complex initial setup and use of the Microsoft 365 Desired State Configuration.
