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Author: Chris Engelbert

Simplyblock's blog brings you the latest of storage, cloud, and thought leadership

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Oct 23rd, 2024 | 12 min read

Serverless Compute Need Serverless Storage

The use of serverless infrastructures is steeply increasing. As the Datadog “State of Serverless 2023” survey shows, more than half of all cloud customers have already adopted a serverless environ

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Oct 10th, 2024 | 11 min read

AWS Storage Optimization: Avoid Storage Over-provisioning

“Cloud is expensive” is an often repeated phrase among IT professionals. What makes the cloud so expensive, though? One element that significantly drives cloud costs is storage over-provisioni

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Oct 02nd, 2024 | 20 min read

Why would you run PostgreSQL in Kubernetes, and how?

Running PostgreSQL in Kubernetes When you need a PostgreSQL service in the cloud, there are two common ways to achieve this. The initial thought is going for one of the many hosted databases, such as

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Sep 17th, 2024 | 5 min read

9 Best Open Source Tools For Kubernetes

The Kubernetes ecosystem is vibrant and ever-expanding, driven by a community of developers who are committed to enhancing the way we manage and deploy applications. Open-source tools have become an e

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Aug 22nd, 2024 | 6 min read

Kubernetes 1.31: Day of the Storage

On August 13, the Kubernetes team released Kubernetes 1.31, a release also known as “Elli”. The release follows about a month after the release of 1.30 (Uwubernetes) which also marked the

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Jul 26th, 2024 | 9 min read

Say Goodbye to High Data Access-Latency Cloud Storage with Simplyblock’s Local NVMe SSD Caching

When using persistent storage on cloud providers, there are two options, locally attached (like AWS’ Instance Store or GCP Local SSD) or remote (like Amazon EBS or Google Persistent Disks). Both hav

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Jul 19th, 2024 | 15 min read

Image Recognition with Neural Networks: A Beginner’s Guide

If you’re anything like me, you must be anxious to understand how computers are able to recognize images. Certainly, it can’t be magic, we know that for a fact, but how does it work? As a disclaim

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Jul 15th, 2024 | 9 min read

Neo4j in Cloud and Kubernetes: Advantages, Cypher Queries, and Use Cases

Introduction: In the era of big data, managing complex relationships is crucial. Neo4j , a leading graph database, excels at handling intricate data connections, making it indispensable for modern app

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Jun 27th, 2024 | 25 min read

Machine Learning driven Database Optimization with Luigi Nardi from DBtune (interview)

Introduction This interview is part of the simplyblock Cloud Commute Podcast, available on Youtube , Spotify , iTunes/Apple Podcasts , and our show site . In this insightful video, we explore the cutt

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Jun 20th, 2024 | 23 min read

How I designed PostgreSQL High Availability with Shaun Thomas from Tembo (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 , w

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