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German *nix magazine freeX will publish an article of mine covering the use of BIND with the Dynamic Loadable Zone (DLZ) extension.

Some key topics in this essay:

• How do traditional BIND master-slace zones compare to dynamic loadable zones
• A review of the DLZ file system, MySQL and BerkeleyDB drivers
• Load and performance considerations
• Data replication from MySQL to BerkeleyDB

Read more on this in upcoming freeX issue 3’2011, available on April 6th 2011.

Following up my preview on authentication in a Dovecot-Cluster, german *nix magazine freeX released my article in issue 2’2011.

*nix magazine FreeX will publish an article of mine covering the topic of building realiable, highly-available authentication database backends for Dovecot mail servers.

Key topics in this essay:

• Optimize Dovecot for optimium performance
• How to use caching and prefetching to reduce load
• What to consider when bumping up process and session limits
• How to scale well beyond hundred thousands of users
• Load distribution using replication
• Protecting the backend database against rogue brute force attacks

Read more on this in upcoming FreeX issue 2’2011, available on February 2nd 2011.

The german FreeX magazine published an article of mine about configuration management in Apache using mod_macro.

Read more about this topic in FreeX 1’2011.