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Change of Status

2010/08/08
By Igor Minar
Change of Status

$ sqlplus -sSQL> connect hr@oracle.com/hrSQL> UPDATE employees SET current = false WHERE email = "Igor.Minar@oracle.com";SQL> COMMIT;SQL> disconnectSQL> exit$ curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "firstName":"Igor", "lastName":"Mi...
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Thanks for All the Fish

2010/08/03
By Igor Minar
Thanks for All the Fish

Hi guys,Most of you don't know, but today is the 3rd birthday of wikis.sun.com. In 2007 a bunch of us decided that it was worth it to boldly go where no man has gone before and on August 3, 2007 we launched wikis.sun.com.At that time very few corporati...
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DGC VI: Wiki Organization and Working with the Community

2010/08/03
By Igor Minar
DGC VI: Wiki Organization and Working with the Community

This blog post is part of the DevOps Guide to Confluence series. In this chapter of the guide, we’ll have a look at wiki organization and working with the user community. This post is going to be more subjective than the others, because the recommend...
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DGC V: Customizing and Patching Confluence

2010/08/02
By Igor Minar
DGC V: Customizing and Patching Confluence

This blog post is part of the DevOps Guide to Confluence series. In this chapter of the guide, we’ll have a look at how to customize and patch Confluence.Customizing ConfluenceBefore we talk about any customization at all, I need to warn you. Any kin...
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DGC IV: Confluence Upgrades

2010/07/30
By Igor Minar
DGC IV: Confluence Upgrades

This blog post is part of the DevOps Guide to Confluence series. In this chapter of the guide, we’ll have a look at Confluence upgrades.Confluence Release History and Track RecordI started using Confluence at around version 2.4.4 (released March 2007...
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DGC III: Confluence Configuration and Tuning

2010/07/30
By Igor Minar
DGC III: Confluence Configuration and Tuning

This blog post is part of the DevOps Guide to Confluence series. In this chapter of the guide, we’ll have a look at Confluence configuration and tuning.There are four ways how one can modify Confluence's runtime behavior:Config Files in Confluence Ho...
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DGC II: The JVM Tuning

2010/07/27
By Igor Minar
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 VersionFirst things first: use a recent JDK. Java ...
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DGC I: The Infrastructure

2010/07/25
By Igor Minar
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 clusterTo build a Confluence site, you need Confluence :-...
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DevOps Guide to Confluence (DGC)

2010/07/25
By Igor Minar
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'...
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Improving Satan and Solaris SMF

2010/05/31
By Igor Minar
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 process and lots more. Often handy in production environment is that SMF keeps...
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