Stoping some threads or queries that may appear in the deadlock queue or locked from the InnoDB engine on AWS RDS is a different thing than self-hosted MySQL or MariaDB. They can potentially increase the database CPU load and cause a lot of problems. If you…

A lot of useful checks can be made with telnet in terms of connectivity, sending test emails, access to databases, etc. Telnet is an application protocol based on TCP, and it can allow you to establish client-server TCP connections. Here I’m going to show…

HTTP/2 was released in 2015 (7 years ago) which is faster and more reliable than HTTP1. In this post I’m gonna show you how easy it can get to upgrade from HTTP1 to HTTP2 for Azure App Services.

Earlier this week, I was writing a Dockerfile to download and run a binary when I noticed the image size was way more than what I would expect. I’m using ubuntu:21.10 as the base image, which is about 70MB. The binary I’m running is about 80MB. Other packages…

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In today’s post we are going to find out how to check for read-only filesystem in Linux from the CLI.

In today’s post we are going to list a few solutions on how to deal with the following Docker network error: ERROR: error while removing network: network <> has active endpoints. There also few possible reasons behind it, starting from renaming docker-compose…

Grafana Loki is a log aggregation tool inspired by Prometheus, or simply put Prometheus for logs. In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to install and configure the Loki logging driver in Docker.

Using EPEL package repository can be very beneficial. Epel contains all the common packages that you may want to install. Unfortunately, EPEL is disabled in Amazon Linux 2. Let’s see how to enable it.

Although it may seem like manually executing commands inside Docker containers could be considered as an anti-pattern, actually it might be useful for instance when debugging things in non-production environments. This is done with the docker exec command…

Nodejs doesn’t exist in the default Amazon Linux 2 yum packages. So we should add the node official repo and use it for the installation. Let’s see how to install node js on Amazon Linux 2.

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Disabling Redis persistence in Docker could be a good thing tho, if you are hosting a development environment, running low on disks space and possibly can’t afford to scale. By default, I believe Redis uses the RDB persistence which basically saves a snapshot…

While creating Amazon Linux 2 instance through the AWS console, there is a step that will provide you with the EC2 key pairs to connect to your instance. But if you need to set up some CI/CD or execute some scripts on a remote machine, then you’ll need to…

Upgrade your local installation of Git, especially if you are using Git for Windows, or you use Git on a multi-user machine.

There is a good reason you might stumble upon this post, so let’s see how can we resolve the following pip install some_package command error: ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement package_name (from versions: none) ERROR: No matching…

Checking out Git PR’s on your local machine it’s not so uncommon practice, especially if you wanna test things out before they are merged into the main branch or any other branch that could screw your environment easily that you might care of. Let’s see how…