Apple servers named after wu-tang, of course
“We use MongoDB for nearly all of our data storage needs. We’re starting to use SOLR more and more to do search related queries (including geo related queries).”
harry_heymann comments on IAmThe servier engineering lead at foursquare. Ask Me Anything.
I thought this was the most interesting part of the thread. IIRC the main reason 4square chose MongoDB was geospatial indexing.
“I’ve been watching RSS feeds from job posting aggregators for several alternative versions of MySQL: Percona Server, MariaDB, and Drizzle. It appears that Percona Server is by far the most in-demand in terms of job skills. (I haven’t seen a job posting for the others at all, so far.)”
h/t bob
puppet-server requires libselinux-ruby, which is available in redhat’s -optional repo, but the official RHEL EC2 AMI’s don’t seem to have access to that repo. They only have -releases and -updates. If you try to add the channel via the usual rhn commands you have to provide rhn account credentials, which if you’re just firing up a new ec2 instance you don’t have.
h/t bob
CentOS 6 misses another deadline.
“Lawyers. Shoot the lawyers! Shoot them! They and their legal ways are a plague.”
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I’m totally with Artur on this one. Particularly love the screenshot at 1:31
“Delegating writes to someone else is the easiest way to build systems.”