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Superfeedr : Real-time feed parsing in the cloud for web-developers.

woah

Yes I still skim my techcrunch rss feed once in awhile.  Came across this:

Yahoo Open Sources Traffic Server .

Slightly more technical info here:

http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/TrafficServerProposal

It looks like they built some sort of homegrown haproxy/perlbal kind of thing and are gonna let the rest of us have a go at it.  Could be really cool.

The guy who wrote HAProxy has a pretty great treatise on load balancing here:

Making applications scalable with Load Balancing.

Michael DeHaan is leaving redhat (and cobbler).

If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? .

I was reading yet another nerdfight over the properties and merits of raid configs and was reminded of a site a coworker once showed me: baarf.com. Battle Against Any Raid F.

Ironically, as much as I agree with that sentiment, I recently rolled out a bunch of stuff in mostly raid5 configs because I needed the space, my array has a good sized write cache, and the heaviest write stuff got put on SSD.  Also, it was an upgrade from raid1 on 7.2k sata to raid5 on 10k fc, so it was plenty of improvement already.