It’s not often, but sometimes I need to boot the system from a USB and rebuild initramfs-linux.img. This post is more of a quick note to myself on how, what, and where to mount on my laptop to run mkinitcpio, as I have LVM partitions, separate disk partitions for /boot, and swap. iwctl and WiFi… Read More »
I have already mentioned the EXPLAIN feature in the PostgreSQL: AWS RDS Performance and monitoring blog post, but this is such an interesting and useful thing that it’s worth talking about it separately. In addition, AWS RDS for PostgreSQL has the ability to enable Execution Plans logging with EXPLAIN, which is also useful for… Read More »
We are migrating our Backend API from DynamoDB to AWS RDS PostgreSQL, and several times RDS crashed. Actually, given that we took db.t3.small with two vCPUs and two gigabytes of memory to save money, it was quite expected, but I wondered why everything was crashing. A few days later, I started to debug the… Read More »
We continue the migration from Grafana Loki to VictoriaLogs, and the next task is to transfer Recording Rules from Loki to VictoriaLogs and update the alerts. Recording Rules and integration with VMAlert were brought to VictoriaLogs relatively recently, and I haven’t tested this scheme yet. Therefore, we will first do everything by hand to… Read More »