Blog

Please visit us on medium for more blogs

Visit Now
Infrastructure as a Code (IaC)
April 29, 2019

Setup Kubernetes Cluster with Terraform and Kops – Build Enterprise Ready Containers using Packer – PART 2

Who should read this Blog Short Introduction Packer Ansible Problem we are trying to solve Why not use Dockerfile rather than Packer Environment Used for this Exercise Actual Implementation STEP 1: Install Packer and Ansible STEP 2: Build a sample image using Ansible and Packer STEP 3: Verify the Exercise Who should read this Blog […]

Read More
Infrastructure as a Code (IaC)
April 9, 2019

Setup Kubernetes Cluster with Terraform and Kops – PART 1

Who should read this Blog: Short introduction What is Terraform What is Kubernetes What is KOPS What is Kubectl Problem we are trying to solve Stack used Actual implementation Install Terraform, Kops and Kubectl Setup S3, VPC and Security Group using Terraform Setup K8 Cluster using KOPS Validate the K8 Setup Install a Smaple Application […]

Read More
April 7, 2019

Automated CI-CD with Docker and Jenkins

This repository is a tutorial it tries to exemplify how to automatically manage the process of building, testing the highest coverage and deployment phases. GITHUB URL- Click on GitHub URL to Download the Java Project. https://github.com/AVM-Consulting/CI-CD-with-Dockers-and-Jenkins Our goal is to ensure our pipeline works well after each code being pushed. The processes we want to auto-manage: Just […]

Read More
Business Intelligence
March 11, 2019

Tableau Ask Data

Simplifying analytics with natural language With Ask Data, anyone can easily ask questions of their data regardless of expertise. It is available at no extra charge as part Tableau’s newest release, Tableau 2019.1. Ask Data interprets the intent behind ambiguous and vague questions to give you accurate results. You can continuously refine your question as […]

Read More
Business Intelligence
March 9, 2019

Tableau Performance Recipes

After multiple Tableau projects delivered, we see more and more of the same problems and same fixes. Patterns repeat. Thus we decided to publish a blog with Tableau Best practice. This blog is specifically for performance best practice. We will keep it as compact as possible so reader can get right to the core. Data […]

Read More
Business
January 25, 2019

Pursuing a Simpler Life. Oracle’s Integration Cloud Service vs MuleSoft Cloudhub

Simplifying Application Integration Applications integration (or enterprise application integration) is the sharing of processes and data among different applications in an enterprise. Application integration has become a mission-critical priority for both small organizations and large enterprises alike, because by connecting disparate applications it becomes possible to reap the benefits of application collaboration, such as increasing […]

Read More
Tips & Tricks
January 4, 2019

Google Voice with Hangouts setup

Google Voice with Hangouts setup Intro We can use combination of Google Voice+Hangouts to get US cell number and forward it to any other outside US number for calls and texts. Inbound and outbound. Long story short, you have US virtual number 100% free. And unlike WhatsApp and similar apps its fully native cell number. […]

Read More
Cloud
Infrastructure as a Code (IaC)
Tips & Tricks
November 12, 2018

Terraform – Orchestration Automation on Any Cloud

Provisioning cloud platform resources is never as simple as AWS and other cloud service providers claim. Especially in hybrid or multi-cloud models creating cloud resources consistently is not always straightforward. Even when a only a single cloud provider is being used, a businesses’ demands for cloud infrastructure are rarely static. New operational requirements may call […]

Read More
Business
Cloud
August 13, 2018

A New World for Cloud MSPs

A Multi-Cloud Centric Approach to Managed Services A Trend Toward Hybrid Over the years we have noticed several trends that reshaped the IT Managed Services industry and market we find ourselves in. From very traditional on premises data center management and system administration, to organizations jumping the gun and moving everything into the cloud – […]

Read More
Tips & Tricks
August 5, 2018

Hugo + netlifyCms image Handling and Shortcodes

Hugo All media files are located in static/img folder of the repository. In markdown text link on the image would be: /img/YourImage. Inserting image in markdown have only 2 params image src and alt as: If you need some other params like dimensions of picture, you can insert html tags or use Hugo shortcodes. Hugo has some default shortcodes. figure is default shortcode for […]

Read More
Database
NoSQL
July 16, 2018

A Manager’s Guide to the Database Galaxy in the Cloud – Part 7 (NoSQL – Graph Databases)

PART 7 In the last few blogs we examined a variety of different NoSQL databases and considered some of their appropriate domains and use cases. In this edition we conclude our multi-part database blog series by considering Graph database offerings from different vendors. This is done in an attempt to highlight some of the key […]

Read More
Database
NoSQL
July 10, 2018

A Manager’s Guide to the Database Galaxy – Part 6 (NoSQL – Key Value Stores)

PART 6 In the last blog we considered different Wide Column Store databases and examined some facets of performance and associated costs. In this blog we look at another type of NoSQL databases, the much simpler Key Value Stores. Offerings from different vendors and examined in an attempt to highlight some of the key differences […]

Read More
Database
NoSQL
June 29, 2018

A Manager’s Guide to the Database Galaxy – Part 5 (NoSQL Wide-Column Stores)

PART 5 In the last blogs we examined a variety of different database types and considered some of their appropriate domains and use cases. In this blog we look at actual NoSQL Wide Column Store offerings from different vendors, in an attempt to highlight some of the key differences between otherwise similar technologies. We also […]

Read More
Database
June 15, 2018

A Manager’s Guide to the Database Galaxy – Part 3 (RDBMS)

PART 3 In the last blogs we examined a variety of different database types and considered some of their appropriate domains and use cases. In this blog we look at actual DBMS offerings from different vendors within each database type, starting with Relational databases and moving on to different types of NoSQL in future blogs. […]

Read More
AWS
Benchmarking
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
May 4, 2018

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Benchmarking Oracle’s DBaaS against RDS – A Performance Comparison – Part II

he following Blog discusses the results of testing I/O performance of an Oracle Database running on Oracle’s Cloud X7 generation instances compared to the same database running on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The Oracle Stress Testing Tool (SLOB) was used to test the performance. The results suggest that it is possible to achieve almost double […]

Read More