credativ® Blog
Here you will find interesting news about industry-specific topics and us.
Categories
Category
06 December 2016
[Howto] Centralized and Semantic Logging for PostgreSQL®
Introduction Today, there is no need to argue why centralized logging is useful or even necessary. Most medium-sized companies now have centralized logging or are currently implementing it. Once the infrastructure is in place, it is important to use it effectively and efficiently! Especially as an infrastructure operator or service provider, the goal is to […]
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, […]
02 December 2015
Official Debian images for Microsoft Azure now available
The free Linux distribution Debian is now available as a supported distribution in the Azure Marketplace. In collaboration with Microsoft, credativ will also take over the ongoing maintenance of the Debian images. The Debian images created by credativ are now available for Debian 8 (Jessie) and Debian 7 (Wheezy). Further information is available on Microsoft’s […]
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 […]
05 August 2014
Informix Foreign Data Wrapper for PostgreSQL®
Since PostgreSQL® 9.1, PostgreSQL® has implemented an interface for accessing external data sources. The interface defined in the SQL Standard (SQL/MED) allows transparent access to and manipulation of external data sources in the same manner as with PostgreSQL®-native tables. External data sources appear as tables in the respective database and can be used without restriction […]