Databases are and always will be the most critical applications when it comes to maintenance, durability, uptime and smooth running of the businesses. DBs, being the backbone of all of the operations going on, need to be resilient, fault tolerant, and therefore they demand special attention and vigilance from the administrators.

Trivia: It’s been 5 months since I’ve embraced Vim as my full-time IDE and ditched VSCode finally. Being a DevOps engineer and Cloud Admin, I spend a lot of time inside my Terminal; sometimes tailing logs, running playbooks, debugging Networking issues, and I had always used Vim for past 4 years to make small changes on remote machines.

Are you still using Minikube in 2020 to provision your local Kubernetes environment? Don’t you love the idea of having a multi-Node cluster for your local env too? Idea of having Docker Containers as “Nodes”? Pre-installed binaries and tools to test, debug and understand the wizardry of K8s.

Python’s collections module is often ignored and sidelined by most of the python programmers but it contains few useful container data types which can come handy in some special scenarios and use-cases. Let’s dig in! As of writing, Wed 6 Nov 2019, and v3.

procfs is a psuedo-filesystem present in many UNIX-like Operating systems. It is used to access process related info without interacting with Kernel directly (means no system calls). procfs is also a great example of one of the core UNIX philosophy – store data in flat files.

Shell and Shell scripting is unarguably one of the best asset of UNIX systems. Yeah prima facie, it looks intimidating and old-school, this is all because it’s almost the same for almost five decades now. Let’s begin! #!/bin/sh – Shebang Almost all shell scripts out there have this weird looking line on the top the file.