I’ve finally completed the migration of this site from Rackspace to GCP. I switched over the DNS record this afternoon, and everything seems fully functional. I’m even using Cloud Logging and BigQuery to analyze my Apache access logs.
Talking Audit Logging on Google Cloud Platform
I recently took part in the GCP Podcast, along with my colleague Oscar Guerrero. On the podcast we spoke about Audit Logging, which is a critical security feature of GCP.
Be sure to check out the podcast episode.
rqlite 5.3.0 released
rqlite 5.2.0 released
rqlite 5.1.1 released
rqlite on InfoWorld
rqlite got a mention in an InfoWorld article. Titled 9 offbeat databases worth a look, I’m glad to see the author got the details right.
Be sure to check out the article.
RSA Conference 2020
I attended the RSA Conference 2020 last month. I wanted to understand the security market better, due to my work at Google.
New knex.js library for rqlite
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, with SQLite as its storage engine. Thanks to Katja Lutz there is a new knex.js library available.
Check it out on GitHub.
Moving to HTTPS with Let’s Encrypt
After reading an interesting paper on Let’s Encrypt, I finally decided to switch this website over to HTTPS. I was really impressed with how smoothly the whole conversion went.
With the help of Certbot from the EFF, it took less than 5 minutes and ran without error. Very impressive!
Scaling read performance with rqlite 5.1.0
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, with SQLite as its storage engine. v5.1.0 is now out, and supports scaling reads via newly available read-only nodes.