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kitchensoap.com

Kitchen Soap – Availability: Nuance As A Service

http://www.kitchensoap.com/2013/01/03/availability-nuance-as-a-service

Kitchen Soap – Availability: Nuance As A Service. Kitchen Soap Thoughts on systems safety, capacity planning, and web operations. Availability: Nuance As A Service. Something that has struck me funny recently surrounds the traditional notion of availability of web applications. With respect to its relationship to revenue, to infrastructure and application behavior, and fault protection and tolerance, I’m thinking it may be time to get a broader. Adjustment to the industry’s perception on the topic. In my...

blog.matthewskelton.net

Monitoring | Matthew Skelton

https://blog.matthewskelton.net/category/computer-systems/monitoring

DevOps Summit December 2013, Bangalore: Software Operability and Run Book Collaboration. DevOps Summit November 2013, Amsterdam: Software Operability and Run Book Collaboration. DevOps Summit May 2013, London. WebPerfDays EU 2012: Continuous Delivery track. IASA UK Ignite 2: London, 2012. Sitecore DreamcoreEU 2011, London. Internet World 2011, London. DevOps Days 2010, Hamburg. Notes on ‘team responsibilities in cloud-native operations’ (Pete Mounce). July 10, 2015. By Matthew Skelton (@matthewpskelton).

heliost.at

HELIOST.AT ✵ • Here’s why I like Django better than Pyramid or Rails.

http://www.heliost.at/heres-why-i-like-django-better-than-pyramid-or-rails.html

Here’s why I like Django better than Pyramid or Rails. As part of my day job I get to see a lot of different web frameworks. I also get to see all of their dependencies, requirements, and craziness when building stand-alone installers for them. Some of the frameworks I see have a ridiculous amount of dependencies. Django is so delightfully simple to install and run. Here’s the. From Django’s setup.py:. Z0FL:Django-1.4 klynton$ grep "install requires" setup.py Z0FL:Django-1.4 klynton$.

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Distributed Systems – Brave New Geek

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Introspections of a software engineer. Go Is Unapologetically Flawed, Here's Why We Use It. A Look at Nanomsg and Scalability Protocols (Why ZeroMQ Shouldn't Be Your First Choice). You Cannot Have Exactly-Once Delivery. Benchmarking Message Queue Latency. So You Wanna Go Fast? Benchmarking Message Queue Latency. From the Ground Up: Reasoning About Distributed Systems in the Real World. So You Wanna Go Fast? I originally proposed this as a GopherCon. We work on some interesting things at Workiva. As I hin...

dan.carley.co

Other people's firewalls

http://dan.carley.co/blog/2014/06/12/other-peoples-firewalls

Jun 12, 2014. The more appropriate title would be ingress and egress firewalls that affect your connectivity but which you have no visibility and limited control of but it was too long. I’ve experienced this tale many times with just one minor variation to the beginning of the plot and the rest of the details remaining the same. It’s either a:. Corporate firewall: owned by another team or group in a much larger organisation. Vendor firewall: owned by a *aaS provider that you have other services with.

laur.ie

laur.ie's blog – Sometimes I make things or think things. Here they are.

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Sometimes I make things or think things. Here they are. Follow me on Twitter. SSDs: A gift and a curse. Founder of a CDN exclusively powered by super fast SSDs, has made many compelling cases over the years. To use them. He was definitely ahead of the curve here, but he’s right. Nowadays, they’re denser, 100x faster and as competitively priced as hard disks in most server configurations. 8221; pretty rapidly. Plus, they look amazing. So if this post isn’t. 8220;GO BUY ALL THE SSDs NOW”, what is it? But t...

danielcompton.net

While open source is free as in beer, it’s also free as in baby – Daniel With Music

http://www.danielcompton.net/2014/11/19/dependencies

The personal blog of Daniel Compton. While open source is free as in beer, it’s also free as in baby. November 19, 2014. Recently Zach Tellman and Factual open sourced. Several libraries that they wrote to handle specific needs where nothing else existed. In the comments on Reddit some people were griping. Do a search on GitHub, and add in a dependency. Want to take advantage of this new fangled single page app craze? Pull in another one. Need to process XML with Ruby? In a minute and. It interacts with ...

blog.jupo.org

My Baby Sinatra Apps

http://blog.jupo.org/2012/02/27/my-baby-sinatra-apps

My Baby Sinatra Apps. February 27, 2012 / Home. It was almost a year ago that I took up a new role using Ruby on Rails. I’ve previously talked about my thoughts on Rails. And given my experience with Django. I probably wouldn’t consider using Rails for my own projects. What I did explore in my time with Ruby. Was another framework called Sinatra. Which I used to build several apps. Firstly I’ll go over Sinatra and some of the related pieces in the stack, and then I’ll cover the apps I built. I’d highly r...

blog.softwareoperability.com

operability | Software Operability

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How to make software work well in Production. Where do I start with operability? Early version of ‘Software Operability’ book coming soon. March 1, 2015. By Matthew Skelton (@matthewpskelton). We’re pleased to announce that an early version of our book. Software Operability: how to make software work well in Production. Will be published soon via our LeanPub site at operabilitybook.com. Matthew Skelton and Rob Thatcher, authors, ‘Software Operability’. October 16, 2013. I will be talking about run book c...