Making a 10+ Year Dream Come True With an AI Coding Agent

As we all know, AI is still going strong as the latest and greatest thing since sliced bread. While it’s an amazing tool and is enabling lots of neat things to happen, I see it as an evolution of existing tools. Similar to how a hammer got superseded by a nail gun or roofing nailer. […]

Highly Available NFS Storage using LINBIT HA for Kubernetes

While NFS (Network File System) isn’t a new or exciting technology, it is one of the more common storage solutions for Kubernetes clusters that require persistent storage. Particularly, applications or pods requiring shared, network-based, “read write many” (RWX) access to storage in Kubernetes can benefit from the familiar storage solution. LINBIT® supports clients who build […]

The Benefits of High Availability (HA)

This article describes the reasoning behind and the benefits of a high-availability (HA) solution for providing services and applications. This article is intended as a general overview and introduction to HA, with a nontechnical reader in mind. Because you are reading this article on the LINBIT® blog, you will also learn how LINBIT software can […]

Replication Speed and CPU Efficiency Improvements in DRBD 9.3.1

The release of DRBD® 9.3.1 brings with it a “streaming I/O” feature. This feature means that DRBD can allocate compound pages from the kernel as I/O buffers. When applications make large I/O requests or streaming accesses, using compound pages can improve performance because DRBD will use CPU resources more efficiently. Background on DRBD memory allocation […]