With the pandemic scorching the world for more than a year already, businesses are looking for a reduction in the cost of operating a business. In many cases, IT is one of the most expensive...

Database deployment for a multiple number of servers becomes more complex and time consuming with time when adding new resources or making changes. In addition, there is a likelihood of human errors that may lead...

Puppet is open source software for configuration management and deployment. Founded in 2005, it’s multi-platform and even has its own declarative language for configuration. The tasks related to administration and maintenance of PostgreSQL (or other...

Ensuring smooth operations of your production databases is not a trivial task, and there are a number of tools and utilities to help with the job. There are tools available for monitoring health, server performance,...

Managed environments grow over time, often as a result of the increased data involvement or maybe due to the need of increasing performance through shared workload. Because of this there is a need to add...

Database system perform best when they are integrated with some well defined approaches that facilitate both the read and write throughput  operations. MongoDB went the extra mile by embracing replication and sharding with the aim...

Deployment and management your database environment can be a tedious task. It's very common nowadays to use tools for automating your deployment to make these tasks easier. Automation solutions such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, or...

In the previous blog, we showed you how to set up our machine with the Puppet and then install and configure MongoDB. Since we are going to configure a number of nodes or rather machines...

Database clustering often involves configuring and maintaining a number of servers and instances, all with a collective purpose. By this we mean you can have different database servers at different hosts which are serving the...

It is a known fact that over 80% of businesses fail within their first five years. Studies have shown that the number one reason for this failure is poor cash flow management. New business owners...

NEWS ALERT: “The Marriott just revealing a massive data breach involving guest reservation database at its Starwood brand. Marriott says it was unauthorized access since 2014. This includes up to 500 million guests... For approximately...

Chef is a popular configuration management tool designed to deploy, configure and manage servers. It may not be that easy to use, as you need to be a programmer to manage the configurations in Ruby...