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Welcome back to the fourth installment of our blog series on using the Pure Storage PowerShell SDK2.

SQL Server 2022 introduces a new feature to enable application-consistent snapshot backups.

Welcome back to the third installment of our blog series on using the Pure Storage PowerShell SDK2.

Welcome back to the second installment of our series on using the Pure Storage PowerShell SDK2.

Welcome to our blog series on using the Pure Storage PowerShell SDK2.

I help enterprises modernize mission-critical data platforms, moving from legacy architectures to modern, cloud-based systems that perform predictably at scale.

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In this blog post, I will show you how to build a hello world container-based web application in the go programming language.

I provide online training though Pluralsight.

My new course “Securing Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Clusters”, co-authored with my good friend and colleague Ben E.

Introduction Purity is the operating environment that runs Pure Storage products like FlashArray and Cloud Block Store.

Last week I purchased a shiny new MacBook Air with an M2 processor.

I’m pleased to announce that I will be presenting at this year’s PASS Summit.

Introduction In this post, I will walk you through how to set up MinIO, so you can use it to work with SQL Server 2022’s s3 object integrations.

Introducing S3 in SQL Server 2022 S3 compatible object storage integration is a new feature introduced in SQL Server 2022.

My new course “Deploying and Managing Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Networking” is now available on Pluralsight here!

Background If you’ve been using Availability Groups, you’re familiar with the replica seeding (sometimes called initializing, preparing or data sychronization) process.

My updated course “Maintaining, Monitoring and Troubleshooting Kubernetes” is now available on Pluralsight here!

My updated course “Configuring and Managing Kubernetes Security” is now available on Pluralsight here!

I’m super proud to announce that Ben E.

At work, I get to work with some fantastic tech that pushes the boundaries of performance.

I’m proud to announce that I will be speaking at SQLBits!

My updated course “Configuring and Managing Kubernetes Storage and Scheduling” is now available on Pluralsight here!

This blog post shows you how NTFS stores data, what the NTFS Allocation Unit means, and how SQL Server performs IOs of variable size.

In this post, we’re going to walk through configuring Active Directory authentication for SQL Server on Linux.

My updated course “Configuring and Managing Kubernetes Networking, Services, and Ingress” is now available on Pluralsight here!

The intent of this post is a quick reference guide based on the recommendations made on Pure Storage Support page in the Microsoft Platform Guide.

This post is a reference post for retrieving IO statistics for data and log files in SQL Server.

The intent of this post is a quick reference guide based on the recommendation made in “Architecting Microsoft SQL Server on VMware vSphere” April 2019 version.

This post will walk you through setting file permissions on database files copied into a container.

Every once in a while when I’m recording a Pluralsight course, I’ll take a photo of my desk to let people see the behind the scenes of the process.

By Argenis Fernandez This post is archived here.

My updated course “Managing Kubernetes Controllers and Deployments” is now available on Pluralsight here!

In this blog post, we will walk through a few examples of configuring SQL Server in Kubernetes.

In this blog post, we will walk through a few examples of how to configure SQL Server in Docker Containers.

Here are the books and research papers I’ve contributed to over the years, covering SQL Server, Kubernetes, Azure, and systems programming.

I’m super proud to announce that Ben E.

Limits in Containers Docker gives you the ability to control a container’s access to CPU, Memory, and network and disk IO using resource constraints, sometimes called Limits.

I want to start by saying thank you to all who submitted, and an amazing collection of people submitted some fantastic content.

In recent years containers have come into the data platform world, exposing new technologies to data professionals.

Where I’ve Been Since January 1, 2012 I’ve been the principal consultant at Centino Systems.

Ever need to set your web server a specific protocol version of TLS for web servers and need a quick way to test that out to confirm?

My updated course “Managing the Kubernetes API Server and Pods” is now available on Pluralsight here!

My updated course “Kubernetes Installation and Configuration Fundamentals” is now available on Pluralsight here!

I’m super proud to announce that Ben E.

Recently I needed to take a look at all of the SQL Server Agent Jobs and their Jobs Steps for a customer.

Pre-conference Workshop at Data Platform Virtual Summit 2020 I’m proud to announce that I will be be presenting pre-conference workshop at Data Platform Virtual Summit 2020 split into Two four hour sessions on 30 November and 1 December!

The first EightKB back in July was a real blast.

In this post, we will explore how a Pod name is generated, Pod Name lifecycle, how it’s used inside a Pod to set the system hostname, and how the system hostname is used by SQL Server to set its server name metadata.

I’m pleased to announce that I will be presenting at PASS Summit.