FreeBSD ganz klein – Main Story in freeX 3-4/2012

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German Unix Magazine freeX has published my latest article on FreeBSD: How to shrink FreeBSD to fit embedded system by the help of NanoBSD and bsdbox.

Read more about this story in the current issue 3-4/2012.

Log-Server mit ZFS – Main Story in freeX 5/2011

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German Unix Magazine freeX has published my latest article on ZFS: How to build a scalable Syslog-Server that uses ZFS as underlying file system storage layer with built-in compression. Of course, it runs FreeBSD 😉

Read more about this story in the current issue 5/2011.

Upcoming Article: Using BIND with Dynamic Loadable Zone (DLZ) Extension

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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.

Reliable Authentication in a Dovecot-Cluster published in freeX 2’2011 magazine

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

Upcoming Article: Building reliable and highly-available authentication databases for Dovecot

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*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.

Mastering Apache’s configuration with mod_macro published in FreeX 1’2011 magazine

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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.