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Node.js: Connecting to MySQL on a socket with Sequelize

According to its official description, “Sequelize is a promise-based Node.js ORM for Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite and Microsoft SQL Server.” Sequelize is widely used in Node.js web applications to abstract the database layer. I recently found a “corner case” for Sequelize which is possible to accomplish, but is not well documented anywhere on the web. …

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Alert Policies for Log Metrics on Google Stackdriver Monitoring

Google Cloud Operations, formerly known as Stackdriver Logging and Monitoring, can be very confusing to set up. It’s easy to monitor something simple, but more complex cases quickly get confusing. One of the more flexible but confusing types of alert policies in Stackdriver Monitoring is a Logs-Based Metrics policy, which gives you the ability to …

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Another Reason to Enable Private IP Addresses on Google Cloud SQL

Google Cloud SQL recently introduced the capability for an instance to have an IP address within the private address space of your VPC network. Previously, all Cloud SQL instances had IP addresses within the address space of the public Internet. Obviously, the public IP was a security and privacy concern, as well as a potential …

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Creating Kubernetes Secrets Using TLS/SSL as an Example

Creating Kubernetes secrets isn’t intuitive the first time you do it. A common reason to use a secret is to add a SSL/TLS certificate to a cluster. Kubernetes provides two ways to add a secret: directly on the command line, and from a YAML source file. First, let’s generate a test certificate to work with …

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