Author Archives: ckauhaus

About ckauhaus

Christian is a systems administrator working with gocept.

Python 2 and 3 compatible builds with zc.buildout

Posted on November 9, 2012

Creating a single-source build environment with zc.buildout that works for both Python 2 and 3 is a bit of a hassle. This blog post shows how to do it for a minimal demo project. During the sprints at PyCon DE … Continue reading →

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Don’t stop PostgreSQL’s autovacuum with your application

Posted on May 22, 2012

The problem Some weeks ago, we received a complaint from a customer about bad PostgreSQL performance for a specific application. I took a look into the database and found strange things going on: the query planner was executing “interesting” query … Continue reading →

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gocept talks at PyCon DE

Posted on November 2, 2011

No blog post for quite a while… part of the reason is that we gocept developers were busy preparing talks for PyCon DE 2011. As result, we presented an impressive number of 7 talks/tutorials at this lovely conference. Curious? Here … Continue reading →

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No luck with glusterfs

Posted on June 27, 2011

Recently, we’ve been experimenting with glusterfs as an alternative network storage backing our VM hosting. It looked like a very promising candidate to replace our current iSCSI stack: scale-out with decent performance, mostly self-configuring, self-replicating, self-healing. And all of this … Continue reading →

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