Monitoring CouchDB with monit
CouchDB is a very good NoSQL database and has many interfaces for many languages. Sometimes however, in low resource environments it can fail and your applications are then doomed to fail as
Monthly Archives: October 2012
How to find directories that occupy a lot of space in ubuntu/debian
Sometimes it is useful to find the folders that occupy the most space in your disk. A simple command is the following:
sudo du -h /var | sort -nr| grep [0-9]M | head -20
This command provides in human readable form (-h) the top 20 directories in the /var
Migrating CouchDB data to a new server
The best way to migrate a couchdb database to a new server is via
Hello World of Software (!)
This is the beginning of my site. Hope you find the material interesting since I am going to post code and comments on software and development issues.
Best regards,
Nikos