This is a rant / observation of the general landscape of what the majority of the IT support companies have become in the past few years. The idea is that they will take all the pain away when it comes to keeping the big bad entropy out of the picture so that you can focus on the business side of things.

Goal: Build a stupid simple routine that will keep one SQLite database (slave on Node2) in sync with the master database (Node1) over a local network (active / passive setup). This is still a part of my IoT smart home project.

Lately I have been all over the shop with the things that peak my interest... In the last few days I have been toying around with some of the replication and synchronization tools that I never seen before. The first one that I totally struggled (aka failed) to get up and running was the OCFS2 (Oracle Clustered File System 2).

It will be very hard for me to say nice things about the marketing techniques that I see and read about. Most of them feel like from a cheap manual book of a corner pimp that is a rather shady character that you want to avoid at all costs most of the time.

The IoT / smart home market is apparently going to explode in the next few years. At the moment all I can hear is how some of my colleagues are installing an Alexa at their home to control few lights and somehow they are impressed with that.