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12 May 2017
PostgreSQL® Auditing Extension on Debian/Ubuntu
The pgAudit extension allows for fine-grained auditing of access to a PostgreSQL® database. Among other things, it is an important component of the recently published PostgreSQL® STIG (“Security Technical Implementation Guide”) by the US Department of Defense. Debian packages created by us as part of the pkg-postgresql project are now available in the official PostgreSQL® […]
24 February 2017
Debian Bug Squashing Party 2017 in the German Open Source Support Center
Debian 9 “Stretch”, the latest version of Debian, is about to be released and after a full-freeze on February 5th everyone is trying its best to fix the last bugs that are left. Upon entering the final phase of development in February the test version was “frozen” so that no more packages could be added […]
10 January 2017
Network Virtualization with VXLAN and Linux
VXLAN stands for “Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network”. Standardized in RFC 7348 in August 2014, VXLAN is also available today as a virtual network interface in current Linux kernels. But what is VXLAN? What is VXLAN? When one reads the keywords “Virtual” and “LAN”, most rightly think of VLAN. Here, a large physical network is […]
15 June 2016
Quality Assurance in PostgreSQL® with SQLsmith
An interesting tool for quality assurance of C compilers is Csmith, a generator of random C programs. I had come to appreciate it during the development of an optimization phase for a C compiler. This compiler features extensive regression tests, and the correctness of the translated programs is also tested using standardized benchmarks. The latter, […]
10 August 2015
[Howto] Icinga2 with Graphite and Grafana on Debian
In this blog, we describe the integration of Icinga2 into Graphite and Grafana on Debian. What is Graphite Graphite stores performance data over a configurable period. Services can send metrics to Graphite via a defined interface, which are then stored in a structured manner for the desired period. Possible examples of such metrics include CPU […]