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MacOS High Sierra Disk Space
Having updating to macOS High Sierra I’ve mostly been impressed, except about one thing, disk space usage. The new APFS creates snapshots during local Time Machine backups, and this can mean, especially if you’be been dealing with some large files, that when you delete them and empty the wastebasket, you don’t get your disk space.…
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Kafka Replication from MySQL and Oracle
Hello again everybody. Well, I promised it a couple of weeks ago, and I’m sorry it has been so long (I’ve been working on other fun stuff in addition to this). But I’m pleased to say that we now have a fully working applier that takes data from an incoming THL stream, whether that is Oracle…
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Replicating into ElasticSearch
So here at Continuent we are working on multiple new targets for applying data using Tungsten Replicator. There are so many potential targets out there where people want to replicate data directly into a specific system, sometimes just for a specific data set, table, database or requirements. Yesterday afternoon, I started working on ElasticSearch –…
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Extending the Tungsten Replicator Core JS Filter Functionality
Tungsten Replicator has a really cool feature in that we can filter data as it goes past on the wire. The replicator itself is written entirely in Java and writing filters for it is not as straightforward as it looks, which is why the much better feature is just to use the JavaScript mechanism and…
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How to Buffer posts+hashtags from your Blog using Zapier
I try to automate as much my life as possible, particularly when it comes to computers. I’ve been using the automated ‘Social Sharing’ on WordPress.com (and indeed, my blogs in general) for years. However, I’m also a keen Buffer user and WordPress.com does not offer a Buffer connection. Because I also use Buffer to handle…
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2015 is that way, 2016 is this way
The last year has been something of a change in direction in my life. Not only was it a year of a large number of ‘firsts’ for me, in all sorts of ways, I also changed a lot of what I was doing to better suit me. Actually that’s really important. 2015 turned out to be…
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Office 365 Activation Wont Accept Password
So today I signed up for Office 365, since it seemed to be the easiest way to get hold of Office; although I have a license and subscription, I also have more machines. To say I was frustrated when I tried to activate Office 365 was an understatement. Each time I went through the process,…
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Passion for Newspaper Comics? Watch Stripped
I’m a big fan of comics – and although I am a fan of Spiderman, Superman, and my personal favourite, 2000AD – what I’m really talking about is the newspaper comics featuring stars like Garfield, Dilbert, and Calvin and Hobbes. Unfortunately being in the UK, before the internet existed in it’s current form, finding these comics,…
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Revisiting ZFS and MySQL
While at Percona Live this year I was reminded about ZFS and running MySQL on top of a ZFS-based storage platform. Now I’m a big fan of ZFS (although sadly I don’t get to use it as much as I used to after I shutdown my home server farm), and I did a lot of…
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Tungsten Replicator 3.0 is Cloudera Enterprise 5 Certified
One of the key platforms I’ve been testing on for the MySQL to Hadoop replication has been Cloudera, largely driven by customer requirements, but it’s also one of the easiest way to get started with Hadoop. What I’m even more pleased about is the fact that we are proud to announce that Tungsten Replicator 3.0 is…