Curt Gratz

December 13, 2018

Couchbase – Big OFFSETs can be a big problem

Dealing with large data sets and big data can often call for new techniques to optimize performance.  When you have a few million documents or rows, you can do things differently than when you have to deal with tens of millions of rows or documents in either a standard SQL database or a NoSQL database like Couchbase.  One thing we noticed at CKH is that in very large document stores, the OFFSET and LIMIT style pagination on both N1QL queries and Views in Couchbase was getting slow as the OFFSET grew larger.  This becomes a problem when you want to build efficient, consistent paging into your system.  Not to worry, Couchbase provides a solution.

July 13, 2018

Kubetail – Watch multiple pod logs the easy way

At CKH we have been using Kubernetes for orchestrating our Docker containers.   One of the challenges when using Kubernetes, however, is when you have a Deployment that is set to scale your app to multiple Pods, watching logs for all of those pods.  Let's talk about kubetail and how it can help us with this issue.

April 13, 2018

Curt is speaking at Into The Box 2018

We are proud to announce that Computer Know How Owner Curt Gratz (along with others, but more to on that to come) has been selected to speak at the very first Into The Box conference in May.  

He will be speak on Dependency Injection: Wiring Up for the Future as well as Meet The Family: WireBox, CacheBox, LogBox, & TestBox.  

If you haven't heard of this amazing one day conference.  We strongly suggest checking it out.  It's a one day conference right before cf.Objective() focusing on the *Box family of frameworks as well as industry best practices with speakers from around the world.

The venue for this event is the Homewood Suites by Hilton is right across the road from the Radison Blu at the Mall of America. 

Check out more at the site http://www.intothebox.org/