Articles
AI in Microservices Architecture: How to Streamline DevOps and Performance
21 minutes
CLSTRLobe DevOps chooses RavenDB for agile development in a microservices IoT deployment with over 80 databases.
The cost of timing out
4 minutes
Let’s assume that you want to make a remote call to another server. Your code looks something like this: var response = await httpClient.GetAsync("https://api.myservice.app/v1/create-snap", cancellationTokenSource.Token); This is simple, and it works, until you realize that you have a problem. By default, this request will time out in 100 seconds. You can set it to a […]
On AI, GPT and the future of developers
9 minutes
When I started using GitHub Copilot, I was quite amazed at how good it was. Sessions using ChatGPT can be jaw dropping in terms of the generated content. The immediate reaction from many people is to consider what the impact of that would be on the humans who currently fill those roles. Surely, if we […]
Production postmortem: The server ate all my memory
4 minutes
A customer reported a scenario where RavenDB was using stupendous amounts of memory. In the orders of tens of GB on a system that didn’t have that much load. Our first suspicion was that this is an issue with reading the metrics, since RavenDB will try to keep as much of the data in memory, […]
Production postmortem: The big server that couldn’t handle the load
3 minutes
A user of ours called us, quite frantic. They are running a lot of systems on RavenDB, and have been for quite some time. However, very recently they started to run into severe issues. RavenDB would complain that there isn’t sufficient memory to run. The system metrics, however, said that there are still gobs of […]
Accelerating DevOps, Performance, and Peace of Mind via RavenDB
18 minutes
Some modern databases provide agility for DevOps teams to realize their goals quickly. The question for IT managers to consider is: What aspects of a database should be dynamic so that my DevOps team will have maximum velocity?
Production postmortem: The heisenbug server
19 minutes
A user reported that they observed nodes in the cluster “going dark”. Basically, they would stop communicating with the rest of the cluster, but would otherwise appear functional. Both the internal and external metrics were all fine, the server would just stop responding to anything over the network. The solution for the problem was to […]
To Structure and Summarize Data from Various Sources HitHorizons Leverages RavenDB’s Unique Indexing Prowess
18 minutes
RavenDB simplifies HitHorizon’s ability to organize and aggregate massive, heterogeneous data imports and reduce the DevOps costs of producing accurate reports while improving time to market of new features.
RavenDB Sharding Webinar recording
1 minutes
The recording of my webinar showing off the new Sharding feature in RavenDB 6.0 is now live. I’m showcasing the new technology preview of RavenDB 6.0 and we have a nightly build already available for it. I think the webinar was really good, and I’m super excited to discuss all the ins & out of […]