Brian Ramsey

Recently I wanted to get metrics out of my Raspberry Pi4 AdGuard Appliance and there was little on the internet about how to do this. Knowing a tonne about Linux I figured I'd just from scratch it and save it here in case I ever need it again, and to help anyone who may take a wrong turn and end up here. I'm running the minimal 64bit Raspberry Pi OS, you will need to tailor the downloads by your arch, etc  These were the steps: SSH into the Pi In your home directory (or whatever, you do you...), download node exporter, extract and place it in a system-friendly spot 1 2 3 4 wget https://github.com/prometheus/node_exporter/releases/download/v1.5.0/node_exporter-1.5.0.linux-arm64.tar.gz tar xvfz node_exporter-1.5.0.linux-arm64.tar.gz sudo mkdir -p /opt/node_exporter/ sudo cp node_exporter-1.5.0.linux-arm64/node_exporter /opt/node_exporter/

I recently had a colleague mention to me that Solution Architects (SA) are dead/dying and boy did I have something to say about this! Let's break it down... With the rise of managed IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) PaaS (Platform as a Service) offerings such as AWS's RDS (Relational Database Service), I've endlessly heard a similar thing as to why "DBAs are no longer needed" and "no one hires DBAs anymore". The simple fact is that while these services make things easier to manage, such as backups and restore, the traditional DBA isn't replaced by them.  Inevitably when the database has an issue/outage, someone in Ops is tasked, by a panicking manager, to "get the database back up again and explain what went wrong". More often than not the person being assigned here has little/no experience with the inner working of a database and couldn't tell a "B-tree" from a "Hickory" 😉 With that aside out of the way, I'll

I was recently fortunate enough to pick up an AYANEO Air Pro handheld (in the simply gorgeous Aurora White colour) and while it's undoubtedly much heavier and thicker than my partners Nintendo Switch Lite, it's roughly the same size in the X and Y axis at least. While I decided to spring for the Pro model; I chose the base model CPU (Ryzen 5 5560U), 16GB memory and the middle-of-the-road 512GB NVMe SSD. Why would I choose the Pro chassis and the slower CPU? well, 2 reasons: 1. Bigger battery I know from reading reviews that x86/64 handhelds suffer from poor battery life, so I'll always opt for a bigger battery whenever I can to keep me off of a power bank or away from a wall for as long as possible. I figured roughly 2-3 hours of playtime would typically be enough for me during a handheld gaming session, and so far I've validated my hunch here. 2. Better cooling The cooling in the Pro unit is designed to keep the Ryzen 7 5825U cool enough at 18W, I figure it'd do a

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