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Notes on Signed Commits with Git and Github

How can you be sure, that a Git commit is authentic? That it was made by the person it claims to be made by? Git allows for signing commits to provide proof that you authored a commit. The same signing

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Benchmarking Apache HBase on Kubernetes

TL;DR In this blog post, I describe a benchmarking exercise we conducted to compare the performance impact of running HBase and HDFS on Kubernetes versus running them on bare-metal. The blog post explains the challenges of running stateful workloads on

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Stackable and Trino Part 3: Migrating Hive Tables Using CTAS

Using CREATE TABLE AS SELECT (CTAS) SQL statements is a well established method of copying and transforming structured data.Trino’s inherent ability to manipulate data from many different sources, sinks and formats makes this a particularly effective way to move data

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What Were All Those Project Names on the KubeCon Europe 2023 Page?

When checking out this year’s KubeCon in Amsterdam, the following text snippet caught my attention: “Join containerd, CoreDNS, Envoy, etcd, Fluentd, Harbor, Helm, Jaeger, Kubernetes, Linkerd, Open Policy Agent, Prometheus, Rook, TiKV, TUF, Vitess, Argo, Backstage, Buildpacks, Chaos Mesh, Cilium,

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