Domino-docker explained – Part 2 : Creating your first Domino image
This article shows how to use the scripts from the Domino-Docker project to easily create your own Domino container image
Continue readingDomino-docker explained – Part 1: Why run Domino inside a container?
Github houses a great project: domino-docker. Regretfully, this project misses one thing: Good documentation. In a series of 6 articles I hope to fix this. We start with the first part: Why run Domino inside a container?
Continue readingProblem with installing fixes for Connections
The other day I installed Connections 7 on a CentOS 8-stream environment. Where I got into problems was installing the cumulative fixpack for Connections 7. Googling the error didn’t help me at all, so I decided to write this blog article about it. Hopefully this article will help someone who’s running into the same problem.
Continue readingHCL Week 2021 at e-office
Just a short post to inform you that my employer, e-office, will facilitate an HCL week coming week with a really interesting program concerning the HCL Digital Solution portfolio. We won’t just look at the products, but also show what to do with the products and how to integrate AI with Domino and Connections. I will present a session on Connections 7 with a sneak peek at Connections 8 on Monday 31st of May
Continue readingDomino V12 is here!
Domino 12.0 has reached GA and is available on FlexNet now. More than in time for the big launch event on the 7th of June. Notes & Domino 12 is an exciting new version that brings great new features both under the hood and, very visible, in the Notes client!
Continue readingDomino 12 and Borg backup
In the past years we saw less and less backup solutions which supported HCL Domino and specifically supported Domino’s transactional logs. HCL needed to step in to solve this and they did. This post shows how I combined Domino 12’s new Backup solution with Borg backup, an open source backup solution, to create a perfect Backup solution for Domino.
Continue readingDomino V12 – SSL Performance revisited – Testing the curves
In my previous post I looked at the performance of the Domino V12 HTTP task in decrypting/encrypting SSL traffic. One of my biggest findings was the huge influence of the elliptic curves on the performance. In this post I dive deeper in the differences between the various curves and compare Domino 12’s best to Domino 11’s best.
Continue readingDomino 12 – SSL Performance
For years, many of us have placed reverse proxy servers in front of HCL Domino for 2 reasons:
– Domino didn’t support either SNI nor the latest ciphers
– Domino’s SSL performance was really bad
In my previous article I described how HCL solved the 1st problem with the new Certificate Manager in Domino 12. Now I look at the 2nd reason. SSL performance.
Continue readingDomino V12 – The Certificate Manager
HCL Domino V12 is in beta, and we currently have beta 2 to work with. One of the interesting new features of Domino V12 is the Certificate Manager task (certmgr). I’ve been playing around with this task and in this post I’ll tell about my experiences.
Continue readingBAT – the intelligent cat
Every now and then I run into a handy little tool which makes life on the command line just a bit easier. This is one of them: bat
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