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The things started to go from bad to worse when work_mem parameter has not been set up correctly. Some queries that requires a large amount of memory to process started to use disk…

@fxtentacle I agree with you. This actually makes a lot of sense. Probably the title reflected the anger and frustration that I was feeling after the poor support. Actually the com…

@evil-olive Thanks for your feedback. Aurora is something that we would definitely look in the future, but with the levels of workload that we are currently experiencing postgres R…

> run out of burstable IOPS but RDS is still partway through a background mirror operation. This is a very good point. Will check. > If you have RDS Enhanced Monitoring turned on d…

> Does Cloudwatch confirm that RDS "needed" to scale? Actually you pointed out to a clue that I missed. I should have checked cloud watch! The free space graphs shows that at some …

@synicalx thanks for your feedback. I will see if there is anything visible in Cloud Watch. > - Other than the (presumably) one change made to that RDS instance at ~4.30AM, were th…

@tus666 thanks for the tip. "Collapsing Under it's Own Weight" is more accurate.

Hi everyone, I have been working with AWS with many years and the service over the years has been outstanding. A few months ago I started the migration of (yet another business) to…

There are 3 types of programming languages you can learn: Modular programming, Object oriented, and Functional programming Python- it has a very simple syntax and it’s easy to lear…

From my working experience in Spain, "error" is a more generic term. The word "bug" is commonly used to specify an error in the software.

Back up with a fix: https://twitter.com/DOStatus

You would expect that a company as big as they are to update their status page as well...Anyhow, at least they communicate via twitter.

Yes, they are down again. They had some downtime a few weeks back as well in the NYC3 region.

Yes, I monitor about 1000 servers in Digital Ocean in New York, London and Singapore. Only New York went down for about 1 hour and a couple of hours later the global DNS system in …

They don’t mention other benefits rather than just the pay package. And nowadays, not allowing remote work.

If the containers are truly inmutable, the application has been designed for horizontal scalability and the automation is right, it doesn’t make any difference to manage 5 containe…

I’ve pretty much been working non-stop since I was 18. I started self-learning when I was 14 and found a job as a programmer a few years after. I’ve only taken a long break when I …

In my professional lifetime, I have developed several technologies. Most of them as a hobby, and about 90% become fully functional and production ready. Some of them got sold; some…

I agree, Vanguard is one of the best funds with low commissions. Nowadays there's no point putting your money in a bank account, so I looked into ways of investing the money. After…

Try the CCNA course of CISCO, “The Complete Network Fundamentals”. I did one of those years ago. It’s a great course to achieve a good base of networking. CCNA is just the first st…

It depends on the company culture and its maturity towards software development. Good PM if they know the product inside out and they have a good insight on how development works p…