Web Ops

I was thinking of buying SSDs for a DB, http://www.sun.com/storage... should be plenty...

Looking into system performance of an Oracle data warehouse - http://scaleordie.com/2009...

I am hiring release engineers: https://www.cytiva.com/wgen...

#excel for #mac can't chart a few thousands of data points, back to R to find performance bottleneck

Fwd: An Engineer's Guide to Bandwidth (Yahoo! Developer Network Blog) - http://developer.yahoo.net/blog... (via http://friendfeed.com/clofres...)

#f5 killed the second-hand market with its re-cert fees. Time to move to #zeus and #zxtm?

Storage market quadrant: http://storagemojo.com/2009...

Github's new set-up: http://www.anchor.com.au/blog...

Anonymization is hard http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3...

Interesting security/ops read: https://blogs.apache.org/infra...

Was at Splunk Live yesterday. Saw some compelling use cases. Funny that the big reference customers had introduced it skunkworks-style in their organization.

rackspace cloud-to-hosted story http://blog.boxedice.com/2009...

Blog battle on the storage appliance front - http://scaleordie.com/2009...

Blog battle on the storage appliance front - http://scaleordie.com/2009...

http://blog.backblaze.com/2009... DIY goodness meets storage pr0n. (via http://friendfeed.com/alq...)

Fwd: #oracle pricing model is only make financial sense to itself. With some hope they'll price themselves into irrelevance. (via http://friendfeed.com/alq...)

Netflix describes its culture - http://scaleordie.com/2009...

Install experience of #hyperic a blast, wading through half-deployed jboss beans...

bcfg2 to schedule production changes, ossec.net to keep cowboy-style config changes in check?

Catching up on Velocity 09 - http://scaleordie.com/2009...

Started a friendfeed webops public group - http://scaleordie.com/2009...

Velocity Conference webcasts: http://velocityconference.blip.tv/

Icon credit: http://radar.oreilly.com/2009...

#structure09 Hosting on commodity hardware - http://scaleordie.com/2009...

I love Amazon Web Services open pricing - http://scaleordie.com/2009...

How about sub-second queries in Hadoop? - http://scaleordie.com/2009...

Notes from the 2009 Hadoop Summit West - http://scaleordie.com/2009...

Very interesting talk about SmugMug - http://scaleordie.com/2009...