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How Twitter Does MySQL - Get Their Fork

5 Signs You Should Hire a Programmer on the Spot

Heterogeneous Computing Is Here, Now

Cretaceous COBOL Can Spawn Jurassic Java

Eric Minick05/19/12
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Breaking my Production Website: A Post-Mortem

I had a failed deployment. I know how to handle complex deployments, and didn’t follow my own advice. I'll explain it so you can learn from my mistakes.

Spike Morelli05/18/12
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Deploying Graphite on Mongrel2

I've started using the mongrel2 web server and set it up with graphite on the same server. So I could just proxy all graphite requests from mongrel2 to Apache, or I could do try to get mongrel2 to talk wsgi to graphite directly. I chose latter and here’s how I did it.

Pablo Pareja Tobes05/18/12
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New Bio4j General Domain Model Schema Available

The creator of Bio4j made a general domain model including al node types and relationships in order to get a better picture of how data is related.

Ranjib Dey05/17/12
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Infrastructure Tooling Anti-Patterns: Accumulator

Over some certain pieces of infrastructure (or infrastructure services) accumulate some feature or functionality that is not automated or documented. Here is how you prevent that...

Eric Minick05/16/12
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5 Things Amazon Taught me About Deployment Automation

Eric Minick gives us 5 takeaways we can learn about deployment automation based on his past experiences with another super-streamlined process: Amazon Prime.

Willie Wheeler05/16/12
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Why I'm Excited About Using Neo4j for a CMDB Backend

Willie Wheeler's Zkybase is an effort at an open source configuration management tool - here's how he came to the conclusion that Neo4j would improve the backend.

Giorgio Sironi05/16/12
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A crash course for the MongoDB console

A JavaScript console is the standard client for administering this database.

Willie Wheeler05/16/12
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Devops: How NOT to Collect Configuration Management Data

In this article we’re going to step away from the keyboard and get architectural. But no ivory towers here. I’m going to give you something that will get you out of lots of pointless meetings. Got your attention yet? Good!

Clint Edmonson05/15/12
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Why Can't I Connect to my SQL Azure Database?

Here are some troubleshooting tips for when you're not getting a connection because of a setting in SQL Server Management Studio or Visual Studio's Data Connections tree.

John Cook05/15/12
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Book Review: Machine Learning in Action by Peter Harrington

A couple months ago I briefly reviewed Machine Learning for Hackers by Drew Conway and John Myles White. Today I’m looking at Machine Learning in Action by Peter Harrington and comparing the two books.

Patrick Debois05/15/12
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Codifying DevOps

This blogpost is a first stab at providing a structure to codify devops practices. The wording, descriptions are pretty much work in progress, but I found them important enough to share to get your feedback.

Willie Wheeler05/13/12
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Devops: What it is and Why you Should be Doing it

We’ll move past the fluffy characterization involving developers and operations working together joyously—not to mention the outright wrong characterization of one superrole that does it all—and get to the heart of what devops is really about.

Eric Minick05/12/12
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uDeploy Built-in Properties Run-Down

A few folks suggested to me that a bit more information on the built-in properties and property scoping for uDeploy would be handy. Message received, and we’ll flesh out the documentation on that front. In the meantime, here’s a quick list of the automaticly available properties.

Eric Minick05/11/12
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uDeploy 4.6 Released with Agent Improvements

A new uDeploy release comes fast and furious this week with server log visibility, locking, and post-processing improvements

Joe Miller05/11/12
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DNS Performance Testing Tools: My Writer Modules

The BIND-DLZ project publishes an excellent set of performance testing tools which make it easy to generate a lot of fake DNS data for a variety of DNS server types. I have even extended this excellent tool set by creating a few new “writer” modules...