by Henrik Loeser (data_henrik) | Nov 24, 2021 | big data, data in action, fun, ibmcloud, IT, scripting
Traffic for event streamsRecently, I worked with IBM Cloud Event Streams which is a message bus built with Apache Kafka. I was looking for a simple command-line tool to test my Event Streams instance and to stream access logs into it. That's when I ran into kcat...
by Henrik Loeser (data_henrik) | Nov 18, 2021 | administration, big data, data in action, fun, IBM, ibmcloud, IT, notebook, Python, tools
Building a data lake the serverless wayThis fall, I started another side project. It involves mobility data and its analysis and visualization. As first step and still ongoing, I am building up a data lake (and maybe integrating it into a data fabric). For that, I...
by Henrik Loeser (data_henrik) | Nov 3, 2021 | DB2, documentation, IBM, ibmcloud, informix, IT, Oracle, version 11.5
Tell the world about Db2 documentationYesterday was one of those days when I, again, worked as information broker. I received a question, asked around myself, passed on information that I learned, and finally handed back an answer to the originator. With this blog...
by Henrik Loeser (data_henrik) | Oct 13, 2021 | administration, cloud, IBM, ibmcloud, IT, system management
Reclaim resourcesThis is a quick follow-up to my "To restore or delete" post in which I discussed IBM Cloud resource reclamations and shared some tricks. Today, I have some more details and also want to share with you my best practices on handling...
by Henrik Loeser (data_henrik) | Oct 11, 2021 | administration, dashdb, DB2, IBM, ibmcloud, IT, migration, nodejs, Python
Over the past 12 months, Db2 on Cloud migrated instances to a new deployment model. It seems to be based on the IBM Cloud Databases model and resulted in a different structure for the service credentials. Previously, Db2 on Cloud instances were accessible on the...
by Henrik Loeser (data_henrik) | Sep 22, 2021 | administration, IBM, ibmcloud, IT, system management
Resource managementOver the past weeks, I provisioned many resources in my IBM Cloud account. Typical to cloud computing, I also deleted and re-provisioned service instances. As part of that work, I dealt with resource reclamation and sometimes restored services or...
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