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Just because it’s sending emails doesn’t mean it’s being monitored… | Three Drunken SysAds
Remember, you might be able to ping it, you might be able to connect to the port and you’ll definitely be able to send emails when you encounter what you perceive to be an issue, but if you’re only getting data, not information, then it’s completely useless to you…
Aperio Guitar Home Page Guitar and Services
Awesome place down the road for guitar repair. I need to take the stinger in for a setup and a new nut.
Apache Cassandra Glossary
This is the glossary of terms that are important to understand when working with Apache Cassandra.
The Death of Architecture
"let's just agree that all you can do in the present is make change well, given what you know to be true, and what you hope to be coming true. An as-is architecture exists, but not a to-be, because the to-be will be the as-is if it comes to pass"
DODOcase - Welcome
The limited first edition iPad DODOcase is inspired by the Moleskine journals of our favorite artists.
QuickCursor — Your favorite text editor anywhere for Mac.
QuickCursor allows you to edit text from any application in your favorite text editor. It's like Edit in TextMate, but it works!
The Twitter Engineering Blog: Memcached SPOF Mystery
memcached 0.19.3 now retries common memcached exceptions, supposedly fixing a problem Twitter and I have seen in production.
Perfect System Administration: cucumber-puppet 0.0.3 released
cucumber-puppet is the glue between cucumber and Puppet, allowing you to write behavioural tests, or features as cucumber calls it, for your Puppet manifests.
pigz - Parallel gzip
pigz, which stands for parallel implementation of gzip, is a fully functional replacement for gzip that exploits multiple processors and multiple cores to the hilt when compressing data
oak-purge-master-logs | openark forge
oak-purge-master-logs: purge master logs, depending on the state of replicating slaves.
I Can't Wait for NoSQL to Die - Ted Dziuba
By replacing MySQL or Postgres with a different, new data store, you have traded a well-enumerated list of limitations and warts for a newer, poorly understood list of limitations and warts, and that is a huge business risk.