Running out of memory on small MySQL instances (less than 1GB) hosting WordPress sites was a common thing for me, for a while. Even creating swap disk didn’t help as the MySQL service was crashing mostly because of OOM (out of memory). Not sure what the error…

One of the first struggles with Go, was when I wanted to have a private repo for the app. Apparently, if you run go get, Go uses Git to pull the specific versions of your dependency packages. As with any private repo, you need to be authenticated. This is…

Most of the API proxy services like AWS Gateway API are used to secure some requests with a level of authentication. To achieve that you can use either Bearer tokens or API Keys. Here I’m going to show you how to pass an API key with an HTTP header using…

Note 05/01/2024: Hello there, you can find an update version of this article here, with the latest findings, improvements and new tools. Thanks to the DALL·E 2, we finally have a very nice graphic representation of the feelings of a Docker container inside…

If you are playing with Jenkins, one of the first things that you might be asking yourself is how to get the default Jenkins environment variables. It’s simple and easy, so let’s jump to the Solution part.

Attributes and metadata for DNS records.

Another issue to get off my chest. A few weeks back, I was struggling to find why the production PostgreSQL DB size was significantly larger than the sum of table sizes. I was bamboozled. However, it turns out I was running the “wrong” SQL query the whole…

If you find yourself connecting to a Docker container, so you could investigate an issue, update a .conf file, or whatever other reason, you are doing an anti-pattern. However, if you really want to create a “snapshot” out of a running Docker container, you…

As I was trying to get my Python Docker Compose stack up and running on my MacBook Pro, I’ve noticed the following message: Warning: The requested image's platform (linux/amd64) does not match the detected host platform (linux/arm64/v8) and no specific platform…

Usually, you will get this kind of error client_loop: send disconnect: Broken pipe if you keep your ssh connection open more than the timeout limit. Let’s see how can we potentially fix it.

Another good nugget to share as I was trying to find out which production DB table was bloated and why. The size was in GB, and it was ridiculous, something around 50GB. You can find the queryies here → Show database and table size in PostgreSQL.

The original entry is in Japanese, published on December 28, 2022.

Vim (VI IMproved), as a common text editor based on Vi, since the early 90s cause headaches to every beginner and junior Ops engineer out there, whatever is a DevOps, SysOps, Cloud Administrator, etc. Here are few commands which I believe could use well as…

Test pull request code in the context of the broader application running in AKS with Azure Dev Spaces and Azure Pipelines.

Dissecting why everybody keeps talking about microservices.

Forget these interview questions 🙅‍ and never ask them your potential employees in software development (or elsewhere).

It’s not so common to be concerned about HTTPS endpoints in the development stage. Thus, it feels like suppressing warning messages is a common thing, right. So, as I was playing around with a dockerized Python app I was getting: InsecureRequestWarning: Unverified…

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