DevOps - Frank on Software

How a 20mb data-set brought down a 14gb ElasticSearch cluster.

15 Jul 2016 • 7 min read

For a client project we are using ElasticSearch (ES) as one of our read-models. The use-case was pretty straight forward and the amount of data was super small. However, our problems were pretty big. It got to a point where we had to reboot our cluster periodically to prevent it from crashing. So, what was going on? Let&...

Onboarding and Ansible Galaxy.

27 Sep 2015 • 3 min read

When you start working on a new project, there are usually a couple of steps you'll need to follow to get up and running. This process is called on-boarding. One of the steps in this process is getting your local development environment setup. On every team I've worked we've used Vagrant. Any provisioning...