DGC II: The JVM Tuning
This blog post is part of the DevOps Guide to Confluence series. In this chapter of the guide, I’ll be focusing on JVM tuning with the aim to make our Confluence perform well and operate reliably.
JDK Version
First things first: use a recent JDK. Ja...
DGC II: The JVM Tuning
This blog post is part of the DevOps Guide to Confluence series. In this chapter of the guide, I’ll be focusing on JVM tuning with the aim to make our Confluence perform well and operate reliably.
JDK Version
First things first: use a recent JDK. Ja...
DGC I: The Infrastructure
In the introductory post, I mentioned that a Confluence cluster is the way to go big. Let's go through some of the main things to consider when you start preparing your infrastructure.
Confluence cluster
To build a Confluence site, you need Confluence...
DGC I: The Infrastructure
In the introductory post, I mentioned that a Confluence cluster is the way to go big. Let's go through some of the main things to consider when you start preparing your infrastructure.
Confluence cluster
To build a Confluence site, you need Confluence...
DevOps Guide to Confluence (DGC)
After working with Atlassian Confluence for 3 years, running one of the bigger public Confluence installations, I realized that there is a major lack of information about how to run Confluence on a larger scale and outside of the intranet firewalls. I'...
DevOps Guide to Confluence (DGC)
After working with Atlassian Confluence for 3 years, running one of the bigger public Confluence installations, I realized that there is a major lack of information about how to run Confluence on a larger scale and outside of the intranet firewalls. I'...
Improving Satan and Solaris SMF
One of the features of Solaris that we heavily rely on in our production environment at work is Service Management Facility or SMF for short. SMF can start/stop/restart services, track dependencies between services and use that to optimize the boot pro...
Improving Satan and Solaris SMF
One of the features of Solaris that we heavily rely on in our production environment at work is Service Management Facility or SMF for short. SMF can start/stop/restart services, track dependencies between services and use that to optimize the boot pro...
Testing matters, even with shell scripts
A few months ago, we migrated out production environment at work from Solaris 10 to OpenSolaris. We loved the change because it allowed us to take advantage of the latest inventions in Solaris land. All was good and dandy until one day one of our serve...
Testing matters, even with shell scripts
A few months ago, we migrated out production environment at work from Solaris 10 to OpenSolaris. We loved the change because it allowed us to take advantage of the latest inventions in Solaris land. All was good and dandy until one day one of our serve...
Configuring Common Access Log Format in GlassFish v2 and v3
For a long time Matthew and I had a dilemma about changing the non-standard access log format used by GlassFish v2 and v3, to the commonly used common or combined format used by Apache.
GlassFish does allow one to specify the access log format, but ho...
Configuring Common Access Log Format in GlassFish v2 and v3
For a long time Matthew and I had a dilemma about changing the non-standard access log format used by GlassFish v2 and v3, to the commonly used common or combined format used by Apache.
GlassFish does allow one to specify the access log format, but ho...
