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How to use different DNS servers on specific domains for resultion – VPN Use-Case

How to resolve selected domains over VPN on LinuxIn todays world, more people use VPN services to work from remote than ever. However, in some Cases its not desirable to route all traffic and all domain name resolutions over the VPN connection. Even if the VPN-Server wants the client to configure itself to work like …

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Shopware 5 – High-Speed Parallel Thumbnail Generation

How to tune the integrated SW5 mechanism to work more then 22 times faster!Shopware 5 – Parallel Thumbnail Generation After Moving a Shopware 5 System to Another Server We hat a customer with 400k images and 1600k thumbnails that needed to move from an old hdd based server to a new ssd based one. The …

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BTRFS: Finding and fixing highly fragmented files

21. Oktober 2020 30. April 2021 / Von Bernd Helm / Das bewegt uns, Uncategorized / BTRFSWhat is BTRFS fragentation?Most of the best BTRFS features are powered by the copy-on-write technology. If a Application wants to rewrite a part of a File, like the first MegaByte, the Data is not written in-place but in an …

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Why we dont use Samsung NVME Pro SSDs anymore

Why we dont use Samsung NVME Pro SSDs anymoreVon Bernd Helm / 20. Dezember 2019Investigation in PerformanceWhen it comes to buying an NVME SSD for a software developer workstation, you are faced with a choice: buy one cheap or buy one expensive. So far, I’ve chosen the more expensive ones because they promised better performance and longer life …

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Next-Gen Backup with BTRFS Snapshots for Root-Fs and Databases

Next-Gen Backup with BTRFS Snapshots for Root-Fs and DatabasesLinux / Von Bernd Helm / 6. September 2017What it is good forThis article is about using BTRFS snapshots as backup solution, usable for databases and full root partition backups. This is not a detailed Step-By-Step guide and requires some linux skills. This Post aims to share my experiences and save …

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PHP & Co.: Unsere Lieblinge

PHP & Co.: Unsere LieblingeSo arbeiten wir / Von Bernd Helm / 27. Juni 2017 / Für Entwickler, Für ShopbetreiberWir arbeiten nicht mit beliebigen Frameworks, Bibliotheken, Plugins und Programmiersprachen. Wir lieben es professionell. Software, die bei Helm & Walter entsteht, soll leistungsfähig und schlank sein. Hier unsere Favoriten: PHP PHP (rekursives Akronym für PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) ist eine weit verbreitete und für den …

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