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PostgreSQL maintenance without superuser

PostgreSQL’s moving in on superusers. As of recent releases—starting way back in v9.6 and maturing through PostgreSQL 18 (coming 2025)—there are now **15+ built-in admin roles**. No need to hand out superuser just to get things done. These roles cover the ops spectrum: monitoring, backups, fil..

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Best 20 Linux Commands for Daily Use in Production Servers

A fresh roundup drops20 go-to Linux commandsfor production sysadmins, dialing in on modern defaults likehtop > top,ss > netstat, andip > ifconfig. The shift? Faster tools that actually get updates. Built with systemd in mind, too. Expect the usual suspects—journalctl,rsync,crontab—all still pulling..

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SLI Evolution Stages

A new SLI evolution model lays out a maturity roadmap—from rebranded latency/error metrics to ones that actually track business impact. It replaces shallow signals and pulls in the stuff that matters: how service failures hit user goals, tasks, and bottom lines...

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%CPU Utilization Is A Lie

Stress tests on the Ryzen 9 5900X uncovered a big gap between **reported CPU utilization** and what the chip actually pushes. Around 50% on paper? Could mean close to full throttle in reality—thanks to sneaky behaviors from **SMT resource sharing** and **Turbo frequency scaling**. **Takeaway:** Raw..

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Introducing Budget Controls for AWS: Automatically Manage Your Cloud Costs

**Budget Controls for AWS** just got better. The open-source tool now reins in more than just EC2. It wrangles **RDS Aurora**, **SageMaker**, and **OpenSearch** too. Under the hood, it taps **AWS Budgets**, **AWS Config**, and **custom tags** to watch spend like a hawk. Hit a budget threshold? It c..

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Fast, Secure Kubernetes with AKS Automatic

Azure dropped **AKS Automatic**, a new managed Kubernetes tier that tries to do it all—so you don’t have to. It comes with baked-in best practices: autoscaling via HPA, VPA, KEDA, and Karpenter. Automated patching. Node repair. Monitoring. All wired up by default. You still get full access to the ..

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Kubernetes Security: Best Practices to Protect Your Cluster

A new JetBrains IDE plugin throws Kubernetes security best practices straight into your deployment manifests—right where they belong. Think: checks for `runAsRoot`, privileged mode, `hostPath`, host ports, and sketchy sysctls. No hand-waving. It enforces stuff like: - Default `runAsNonRoot` - Drop ..

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v1.34: Pods Report DRA Resource Health

Kubernetes v1.34 lands with an alpha upgrade to **[KEP-4680](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/sig-node/4680-add-resource-health-to-pod-status)**, pushing **Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA)** into smarter territory: health-aware Pods. DRA drivers can now stream device heal..

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v1.34: Recovery From Volume Expansion Failure (GA)

Kubernetes v1.34 bumps **automated recovery from botched PVC expansions** to GA. Users can now fix bad volume size requests—no admin, no drama. It cleans up unused quota, slows down retry spam, and surfaces progress with new PVC status fields...

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v1.34: DRA Consumable Capacity

Kubernetes 1.34 rolls in **consumable capacity** for Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA). That means device plugins can now carve up resources—GPU memory, NIC bandwidth, etc.—into precise slices for Pods, ResourceClaims, and namespaces. The scheduler tracks it all, so nothing spills over...

It takes the brightest minds to be a technology leader. It takes imagination to create green energy for the generations to come. At Siemens Gamesa we make real what matters, join our global team.

Siemens Gamesa has a vision for renewable energy: we believe in the power of nature and technology. Help us to be ready to face the energy challenges of tomorrow and make a green footprint – join the team in creating a better future for us on our planet.

We focus on hiring the best people, wherever they may be in the world. We pride ourselves on the flexibility we offer to our employees and are committed to building a workforce that can grow with the company. Siemens Gamesa is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

In our culture of trust, we focus on empowerment, diversity and continuous learning. Valuing our people is what makes us one global team, with our colleagues’ safety at the heart of our organization.

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How to contribute to our vision

For our DevOps team within the Software Solutions division we are looking for a skilled DevOps Engineer to join our growing, and dedicated DevOps team. In the department, we are responsible for the SW test strategy, the enforcement of it, and the creation and maintenance of build- and test environments in which automated tests are executed. This involves both HIL setups and small to large virtual environments, thus handling both the hard real-time and large scalability requirements. We operate 2 data centers and 2 test labs.

The introduction of Continuous Delivery is a strategic goal of the department; our team has been given the responsibility of introducing it. You will join an inspiring and high performing multinational team.

As DevOps Engineer, your tasks and deliverables are mainly lead the development teams’ transformation to Continuous Delivery, i.e. implement their Chef based server stack, create the QA part of the Jenkins pipeline. The product and system level tests are run in either a VM environment or the physical HW. You will manage and optimize the utilization of these environments while reducing bottlenecks in the delivery pipelines.

Together with the rest of the DevOps team you develop state of the art SW tools and make the decision proposals. You implement these tools in the development projects for them to move faster. As member of the DevOps team you carry the operational responsibility of these tools.

You act as the technical expert across multiple development projects helping them in keeping their delivery pipeline running. The projects range from deeply embedded controllers over large SCADA server systems to central fleet management systems. Together with the rest of the DevOps team you ensure the operational side of our large HW and VMware test environment.

You will implement parts of our cybersecurity strategy by implementing relevant verifications in the pipelines and ensure a short lead time.

What you need to make a difference

Passion for renewable energy and a sense for the importance to lead the change. We are looking for you, who wants to make real what matters and who wants to change the world towards renewable energy.

The ideal candidate holds an academic degree in IT, Computer Science or similar in combination with thorough practical experience with

Continuous Integration/Delivery and DevOps
Applying agile software development practices (e.g. SAFe & SCRUM)
GitLab, Gitflow, Artifactory, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes and Chef
You have strong DevOps understanding of the state of the art build and code level QA tolls for C#, C++ and web development.
You have basic knowledge of BDD, Cucumber - Ruby.
You are not afraid of asking questions and taking the lead in developing the team, methods and frameworks.

Most importantly is your passion for continuous delivery and smooth operations in larger organizations. You have a high professional competency and you have a desire to develop your skills. You have good collaboration skills and you can manage to act in different cultural contexts. To thrive in this position, you must have a strong result- and customer-oriented approach.

In return of your commitment we offer you…

Become a part of our mission for sustainability: Clean energy for generations to come. We are a global team of diverse colleagues who share a passion for renewable energy and have a culture of trust and empowerment to make our own ideas a reality. We focus on personal and professional development to grow internally within our organization. Siemens Gamesa offers a wide variety of benefits such as flexible working hours as well as home-office possibility for many colleagues, employer-funded pension, attractive remuneration package (fixed/variable) and local benefits such as subsidized lunch, employee discounts and much more.

Empowering our people

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How do you imagine the future?

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Our global team is on the front line of tackling the climate crisis, reducing carbon emissions – the greatest challenge we face.