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How Oracle transforms its operation into a cloud business with Gerald Venzl from Oracle (video + interview)
Gerald Venzl, Oracle, discusses the shift to cloud, challenges, and Oracle's belief in a multi-cloud future over on-premise databases.

Chris Engelbert
May 17, 202415 min read


What is Block Storage?
Block storage describes a technology that controls how data is stored on storage devices. Data is split into chunks and stored in blocks.

Chris Engelbert
May 15, 20245 min read


Automated Vulnerability Detection throughout your Pipeline with Brian Vermeer from Snyk (video + interview)
Brian Vermeer from Synk talks about the necessity of multi checks, the common threats and importance of rebuilding images for deployment.

Chris Engelbert
May 10, 202414 min read


What is NVMe Storage?
Non-Volatile Memory Express is a modern protocol dedicated to flash based solid state NVMe storage for low latency and high performance.

Chris Engelbert
May 8, 20246 min read


PostgreSQL mistakes and how to avoid them with Jimmy Angelakos (video + interview)
Jimmy Angelakos talks about his experiences with customers running PostgreSQL on bare-metal, in the cloud, and on Kubernetes.

Chris Engelbert
May 2, 202411 min read


How to build your scale out data infrastructure for AI workloads?
How to build scale out data infrastructure for AI workloads and vector databases? Key concepts and best practices to build modern data layer

Rob Pankow
Apr 30, 20246 min read


Coding the Cloud: A Dive into Data Streaming with Gunnar Morling from Decodable (video + interview)
Gunnar Morling from Decodable shares shares insights into how Decodable facilitates near real-time data movement and processing.

Chris Engelbert
Apr 26, 202416 min read


IOPS vs Throughput vs Latency - Storage Performance Metrics
IOPS and throughput are important metrics when measuring the performance of storage solutions. Learn all about and how to measure them.

Chris Engelbert
Apr 24, 20249 min read


How API Gateways help to improve your security with Nicolas Fränkel from API7.ai (video + interview)
Nicolas Fränkel talks about how to choose the right tools fitting your needs based on your requirements.

Chris Engelbert
Apr 19, 202414 min read


Block Storage Volume Pooling for the Cloud-Age
Cloud block storage services like Amazon EBS are great for quick starts but have shortcomings when scaling out. Simplyblock is here to help.

Rob Pankow
Apr 17, 20245 min read
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