Author: Chris Engelbert
Simplyblock's blog brings you the latest of storage, cloud, and thought leadership
Chris Engelbert
May 08th, 2024 | 8 min read
What is NVMe Storage?
NVMe or Non-Volatile Memory Express is a modernaccess and storage protocol dedicated to flash based solid state storage. Designed for low overhead, latency, and response times, it aims for the highest
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Chris Engelbert
May 02nd, 2024 | 15 min read
PostgreSQL mistakes and how to avoid them with Jimmy Angelakos
This interview is part of the simplyblock’s Cloud Commute Podcast, available on Youtube , Spotify , iTunes/Apple Podcasts , Pandora , Samsung Podcasts, and our show site . In this installment of
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Chris Engelbert
Apr 26th, 2024 | 21 min read
Coding the Cloud: A Dive into Data Streaming with Gunnar Morling from Decodable (video + interview)
This interview is part of the simplyblock’s Cloud Commute Podcast, available on Youtube , Spotify , iTunes/Apple Podcasts , Pandora , Samsung Podcasts, and our show site . In this installment of
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Chris Engelbert
Apr 24th, 2024 | 13 min read
IOPS vs Throughput vs Latency – Storage Performance Metrics
IOPS, throughput, and latency are interrelated metrics that provide insight into the read, write, and access performance of storage entities and network interconnects. Measuring the performance of a s
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Chris Engelbert
Apr 19th, 2024 | 19 min read
How API Gateways help to improve your security with Nicolas Fränkel from API7.ai (video + interview)
This interview is part of the simplyblock Cloud Commute Podcast, available on Youtube , Spotify , iTunes/Apple Podcasts , Pandora , Samsung Podcasts, and our show site . In this installment of the pod
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Chris Engelbert
Apr 12th, 2024 | 17 min read
Building a Time Series Database in the Cloud with Steven Sklar from QuestDB (video + interview)
This interview is part of the simplyblock Cloud Commute Podcast, available on Youtube , Spotify , iTunes/Apple Podcasts , Pandora , Samsung Podcasts, and our show site . In this installment of the pod
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Chris Engelbert
Apr 10th, 2024 | 9 min read
Kubernetes: Future or Fad?
Kubernetes has pretty much become synonymous with container orchestration, and all competition is either assimilated (or rewritten to be based on Kubernetes, see Openshift), or basically disappeared i
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Chris Engelbert
Apr 05th, 2024 | 25 min read
Production-grade PostgreSQL on Kubernetes with Álvaro Hernández Tortosa from OnGres (interview)
This interview is part of the simplyblock Cloud Commute Podcast, available on Youtube , Spotify , iTunes/Apple Podcasts , Pandora , Samsung Podcasts, and our show site . In this episode of the Cloud C
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Chris Engelbert
Apr 03rd, 2024 | 7 min read
What is a Kubernetes Persistent Volume?
A persistent volume is a slice of storage, provisioned by an Kubernetes administrator, that can be attached and mounted to pods. Like everything in Kubernetes, it is a resource inside the cluster, and
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Chris Engelbert
Mar 28th, 2024 | 3 min read
AWS Cost Optimization with Cristian Magherusan-Stanciu from AutoSpotting (interview)
This interview is part of the simplyblock Cloud Commute Podcast, available on Youtube, Spotify , iTunes/Apple Podcasts , Pandora , Samsung Podcasts, and our show site . In this installment, we’r
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