Archive

2025  1

February  1

Architecture Decision Records: A Tool for Experienced Engineers

February 8, 2025 · 10 min · Alexander Holbreich

2024  1

May  1

Composable Architecture

May 27, 2024 · 5 min · Alexander Holbreich

2022  1

October  1

JDK 21: Virtual Threads

October 4, 2022 · 5 min · Alexander Holbreich

2021  2

June  1

(Typical) journey towards full GitOps

June 8, 2021 · 9 min · Alexander Holbreich

April  1

Blog with Hugo

April 2, 2021 · 2 min · Alexander Holbreich

2020  6

November  1

How to setup EKS on AWS with terraform

November 2, 2020 · 8 min · Alexander Holbreich

May  2

Kube-state-metrics 1.8.0 - all metrics docu

May 5, 2020 · 12 min · Alexander Holbreich

Upgrading Fedora Linux

May 4, 2020 · 2 min · Alexander Holbreich

April  3

Installing Filebeat for Kubernetes Logs

April 26, 2020 · 3 min · Alexander Holbreich

Installing Logstash on Kubernetes

April 25, 2020 · 3 min · Alexander Holbreich

Open Distro for Elasticsearch

April 22, 2020 · 3 min · Alexander Holbreich

2019  1

June  1

Terraforming of the AWS: Getting started

June 4, 2019 · 4 min · Alexander Holbreich

2018  2

May  1

Services in systemd

May 28, 2018 · 5 min · Alexander Holbreich

April  1

Docker components explained

April 27, 2018 · 5 min · Alexander Holbreich

2017  12

November  3

Elasticsearch: Working with Indices

November 22, 2017 · 4 min · Alexander Holbreich

Internal data structures of Elasticsearch

November 20, 2017 · 3 min · Alexander Holbreich

Elasticsearch cluster configuration: What i’ve learned

November 17, 2017 · 8 min · Alexander Holbreich

August  2

Kubernetes on Ubuntu

August 28, 2017 · 5 min · Alexander Holbreich

Thoughts on Elasticsearch

August 18, 2017 · 4 min · Alexander Holbreich

July  1

How to cook Jenkins in 2017

July 14, 2017 · 6 min · Alexander Holbreich

June  1

Upgrading debian Jessie to Stretch

June 19, 2017 · 3 min · Alexander Holbreich

May  2

Docker and Moby

May 20, 2017 · 2 min · Alexander Holbreich

Terraforming the Google Cloud

May 2, 2017 · 4 min · Alexander Holbreich

April  2

Side notes while terraforming AWS

April 28, 2017 · 2 min · Alexander Holbreich

AWS automation

April 3, 2017 · 4 min · Alexander Holbreich

February  1

The Serverless Compute Manifesto

February 10, 2017 · 2 min · Alexander Holbreich

2016  13

November  1

Kubernetes with CoreOS on AWS

November 17, 2016 · 5 min · Alexander Holbreich

October  2

List of Container Management Systems

October 20, 2016 · 4 min · Alexander Holbreich

AWS for Docker containers: first impressions

October 5, 2016 · 5 min · Alexander Holbreich

September  3

JSON Web Tokens are made for Microservices

September 29, 2016 · 6 min · Alexander Holbreich

How modularity enables Agility

September 25, 2016 · 4 min · Alexander Holbreich

My first public ansible role

September 12, 2016 · 2 min · Alexander Holbreich

June  1

Golang: How to start

June 23, 2016 · 4 min · Alexander Holbreich

April  1

Do more Ansible

April 21, 2016 · 8 min · Alexander Holbreich

March  4

Message Authentication

March 29, 2016 · 6 min · Alexander Holbreich

Symmetric-key cryptography

March 17, 2016 · 11 min · Alexander Holbreich

Cryptographic Hash Functions

March 16, 2016 · 3 min · Alexander Holbreich

Cryptography basics

March 16, 2016 · 3 min · Alexander Holbreich

January  1

Time to start playing with Angular 2.0

January 6, 2016 · 3 min · Alexander Holbreich

2015  5

December  2

Goodbye Wordpress, Hello Ghost

December 19, 2015 · 3 min · Alexander Holbreich

Docker image for Ghost blog

December 17, 2015 · 3 min · Alexander Holbreich

September  1

Switch to Docker (Instead of package manager)

September 5, 2015 · 5 min · Alexander Holbreich

April  1

Upgrading debian wheezy to jessie

April 27, 2015 · 5 min · Alexander Holbreich

March  1

Just tried Google Cloud SQL (with update)

March 23, 2015 · 3 min · Alexander Holbreich

2014  7

October  2

Entering Docker Container with docker exec

October 16, 2014 · 1 min · Alexander Holbreich

Systemd on Debian: What do you think?

October 6, 2014 · 6 min · Alexander Holbreich

July  1

Moving docker images location to different partition

July 14, 2014 · 1 min · Alexander Holbreich

April  3

Continuing with trusted Docker images

April 24, 2014 · 1 min · Alexander Holbreich

Docker on the Google Computer Engine

April 22, 2014 · 1 min · Alexander Holbreich

Switching from Livefyre to DISQUS

April 14, 2014 · 1 min · Alexander Holbreich

January  1

Start using Docker

January 29, 2014 · 3 min · Alexander Holbreich

2013  5

November  1

Introduction to the data model of cassandra db

November 5, 2013 · 4 min · Alexander Holbreich

October  1

Installing Apache Cassandra

October 17, 2013 · 4 min · Alexander Holbreich

July  1

Local network for local virtual machines: Ready to use bash script

July 28, 2013 · 5 min · Alexander Holbreich

June  1

Debian aptitude recipes

June 17, 2013 · 3 min · Alexander Holbreich

March  1

qemu-kvm introduction

March 1, 2013 · 6 min · Alexander Holbreich

2012  12

November  1

Why JEE EJB has failed

November 2, 2012 · 2 min · Alexander Holbreich

October  2

Installation and Configuration of Sonatype’s Nexus

October 12, 2012 · 4 min · Alexander Holbreich

Maven Basics

October 8, 2012 · 5 min · Alexander Holbreich

September  5

Apache Maven Installation

September 26, 2012 · 2 min · Alexander Holbreich

Upgrading to Livefyre 3.52

September 14, 2012 · 1 min · Alexander Holbreich

Switching commenting system to Livefyre

September 11, 2012 · 2 min · Alexander Holbreich

Introduction to Apache Camel

September 10, 2012 · 5 min · Alexander Holbreich

OSGi Bundles: Declarative Services

September 5, 2012 · 7 min · Alexander Holbreich

August  1

Oracle (sun) jdk console tools

August 2, 2012 · 7 min · Alexander Holbreich

February  3

Release your entities

February 22, 2012 · 6 min · Alexander Holbreich

Samba configuration

February 12, 2012 · 3 min · Alexander Holbreich

Building Eclipse Rich Client Application automatically (Tycho)

February 1, 2012 · 6 min · Alexander Holbreich

2011  7

December  1

Packing with tar gzip, bzip2 and zip

December 31, 2011 · 3 min · Alexander Holbreich

November  2

JBoss 7 setup on debian linux

November 10, 2011 · 3 min · Alexander Holbreich

Installing Oracle Java 7 on Debian

November 9, 2011 · 1 min · Alexander Holbreich

August  1

Favorite Eclipse UML Plugin

August 21, 2011 · 1 min · Alexander Holbreich

July  1

Bootcharting

July 10, 2011 · 1 min · Alexander Holbreich

February  1

Git

February 26, 2011 · 5 min · Alexander Holbreich

January  1

Java EE 5 vs Java EE 6

January 29, 2011 · 4 min · Alexander Holbreich

2010  11

November  4

Subversion on Debian Linux

November 28, 2010 · 4 min · Alexander Holbreich

lsof command tutorial with examples

November 25, 2010 · 4 min · Alexander Holbreich

102 Post so far

November 23, 2010 · 2 min · Alexander Holbreich

Ubuntu vs. Windows XP on my Thinkpad

November 20, 2010 · 2 min · Alexander Holbreich

October  1

Java WebServices JSR overview

October 20, 2010 · 2 min · Alexander Holbreich

May  1

Get JIRA for 10$ only

May 25, 2010 · 2 min · Alexander Holbreich

March  1

The Queen and 11 Presidents!

March 7, 2010 · 1 min · Alexander Holbreich

February  2

How to send E-Mails with Exim installed on Linux

February 14, 2010 · 2 min · Alexander Holbreich

How to do SSH tunnels

February 8, 2010 · 3 min · Alexander Holbreich

January  2

JBoss 5 GA on Debian linux

January 29, 2010 · 6 min · Alexander Holbreich

Software RAID on Debian Linux

January 11, 2010 · 6 min · Alexander Holbreich

2009  5

February  1

Unpacking archives with tar, gzip, bzip2, z

February 1, 2009 · 4 min · Alexander Holbreich

January  4

How to duplicate magento installation

January 29, 2009 · 4 min · Alexander Holbreich

My Pagerank is back!

January 14, 2009 · 1 min · Alexander Holbreich

Folder Monitr a Flickr Upload tool

January 10, 2009 · 1 min · Alexander Holbreich

Found solution for Magento - ‘SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error’ on installation

January 4, 2009 · 2 min · Alexander Holbreich

2008  16

July  1

WPopularity progress

July 20, 2008 · 1 min · Alexander Holbreich

April  1

What if you get google malware notification?

April 26, 2008 · 2 min · Alexander Holbreich

March  4

Magento 0.9….

March 30, 2008 · 1 min · Alexander Holbreich

In the meantime

March 19, 2008 · 2 min · Alexander Holbreich

DIGG Effect is worth it?

March 10, 2008 · 2 min · Alexander Holbreich

Success factors in social (News) communities

March 6, 2008 · 4 min · Alexander Holbreich

February  7

Yahoo Buzz launched

February 26, 2008 · 2 min · Alexander Holbreich

W-Popularity Plug-In

February 16, 2008 · 1 min · Alexander Holbreich

Mark Meta widget with “nofollow”

February 15, 2008 · 2 min · Alexander Holbreich

HeadSpace - Meta-Information Plug-in

February 14, 2008 · 3 min · Alexander Holbreich

Wordpress 2.3.3 fixes XML-RPC bug

February 5, 2008 · 2 min · Alexander Holbreich

Category vs Tag

February 2, 2008 · 3 min · Alexander Holbreich

Pligg 9.9.0 Test

February 1, 2008 · 2 min · Alexander Holbreich

January  3

Subdomains vs. Subdirectories

January 24, 2008 · 3 min · Alexander Holbreich

Yahoo Shortcuts Plug-In deletes Posts

January 23, 2008 · 1 min · Alexander Holbreich

Polyglot Plugin

January 8, 2008 · 1 min · Alexander Holbreich

2007  18

December  4

My Top 10 Wordpress Plug-ins I won’t miss

December 27, 2007 · 2 min · Alexander Holbreich

Update your wordpress with one click

December 23, 2007 · 2 min · Alexander Holbreich

Pligg 9.8.2

December 15, 2007 · 1 min · Alexander Holbreich

Magento

December 9, 2007 · 3 min · Alexander Holbreich

November  2

Good PHP online shop for money

November 13, 2007 · 2 min · Alexander Holbreich

Will new Java Browser Plug-in make java applets sexy again?

November 1, 2007 · 1 min · Alexander Holbreich

October  1

Semantic spam Attack

October 24, 2007 · 3 min · Alexander Holbreich

August  2

Curiosity: How IDE features affects design quality

August 27, 2007 · 1 min · Alexander Holbreich

Don’t let trigger take control

August 11, 2007 · 3 min · Alexander Holbreich

July  1

I was hacked…

July 13, 2007 · 2 min · Alexander Holbreich

June  2

Changes in HTML5

June 16, 2007 · 3 min · Alexander Holbreich

Home Page v 3.0

June 16, 2007 · 1 min · Alexander Holbreich

March  1

Master of Business Information Technology soon

March 19, 2007 · 1 min · Alexander Holbreich

February  1

“NoFollow” considered harmful

February 3, 2007 · 3 min · Alexander Holbreich

January  4

Jim Gray is lost at sea

January 30, 2007 · 1 min · Alexander Holbreich

Aptana IDE

January 27, 2007 · 2 min · Alexander Holbreich

First Look at Java Persistence API (JPA)

January 13, 2007 · 4 min · Alexander Holbreich

Hello World

January 6, 2007 · 1 min · Alexander Holbreich