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"To add this middleware to your configuration, add the swift3 middleware in front of the auth..."

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:21:04 -0500

“To add this middleware to your configuration, add the swift3 middleware in front of the auth middleware, and before any other middleware that look at swift requests (like rate limiting).”

- Configuring Object Storage with the S3 API - OpenStack Object Storage Admin Manual - trunk

Don't scar on the first cut - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:49:41 -0500

Don't scar on the first cut - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals):

this is old but I just found it and its really good

Luwak EOL

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 13:41:31 -0500

Luwak EOL:

Riak just took itself off the table as an “in house S3” solution.

Red Hat finally added a "just the packages please" license

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:07:09 -0500

Red Hat finally added a "just the packages please" license:

Under the name “Self-support Subscription”.

I’ve asked every redhat sales rep I ever talked to for this for something like 5 years now. Now you can get official ISOs, do basic management via RHN, and get security updates *that day* without paying for email/phone support you never use.

"From my experience, and I have done thousands upgrades and downgrades in my life, the least number..."

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:31:32 -0500

“From my experience, and I have done thousands upgrades and downgrades in my life, the least number of problems come from RPM packages available in RedHat…”

- Which Linux distribution for a MySQL database server? A specific point of view. - MySQL Performance Blog

"One of my goals for 2012 is to have our market opportunities tightly align with our consumer and..."

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:58:00 -0500

“

One of my goals for 2012 is to have our market opportunities tightly align with our consumer and revenue product development and goals and to have our leadership operate the company to build the products and talent that will continue to put AOL at the forefront of where the Web is going.

It is in that spirit that we have been working closely with the McChrystal Group, led by General Stan McChrystal and an elite team of Special Forces leadership.

- AOL CEO Tim Armstrong

”

- LEAKED MEMO: AOL Has Hired The General Obama Fired

Sooooooooooo glad I quit.

Akamai Reportedly Buying Rival Cotendo For Up To $350 Million | TechCrunch

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 13:44:14 -0500

Akamai Reportedly Buying Rival Cotendo For Up To $350 Million | TechCrunch:

Dammit, I specifically chose Cotendo because they fulfilled my “not akamai” requirement.

AOL: 60,000 Servers, Retooling for the Future » Data Center Knowledge

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 13:39:01 -0500

AOL: 60,000 Servers, Retooling for the Future » Data Center Knowledge:

AOL has 60K servers and five datacenters. Huffpo had less than 50 servers and 6 racks.

Video

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 18:37:30 -0500

Gawker Media Testimonial (by NewRelicInc) gettin my shill on

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:32:28 -0500

Gawker Media Testimonial (by NewRelicInc)

gettin my shill on

Creating An Amazon IAM User Who Can Access A Single S3 Bucket - Andrew’s Website

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:31:50 -0400

Creating An Amazon IAM User Who Can Access A Single S3 Bucket - Andrew’s Website:

You would think this would be a really common and well documented use case, but it took a couple hours of pouring through confusing docs and blog posts before I found this gem. Straight to the point, problem solved in 5 minutes.

"David M. Wong - Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Research Division: My final thing, when might we..."

Sun, 23 Oct 2011 13:48:14 -0400

“

David M. Wong - Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Research Division:
My final thing, when might we expect the first PCs with Ivy Bridge chips to be on shelves?

Paul S. Otellini:
Spring.

”

- Intel’s CEO Discusses Q3 2011 Results - Earnings Call Transcript - Seeking Alpha

Looks like new Ivy Bridge based servers will be more of a Q2 purchase next year than Q1.

Puppet 0.25 to 2.6 upgrade gotcha

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:19:19 -0400

Puppet 0.25 to 2.6 upgrade gotcha:

”*” now really means “*.pp”, so if your files were named “foo” instead of “foo.pp” your import statements fail with an error message that makes no sense.

thanks to Steve Snodgrass for the explanation at the bottom of that ticket.

Photo

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:53:53 -0400

"If you love re-compiling Linux kernels, than this is the role for you!"

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 19:36:34 -0400

“If you love re-compiling Linux kernels, than this is the role for you!”

- DevOps Engineer

What kind of idiot loves re-compiling anything let alone the kernel?

"One parent process coordinates work among many children? Where have I heard that before?"

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:27:55 -0400

“One parent process coordinates work among many children? Where have I heard that before?”

- Straight Talk on Event Loops

This is an awesome post. Ted can be a little too trollish sometimes but he can also clearly bring it.

Amazon Web Services Blog: Amazon Linux AMI - General Availability and New Features

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 23:21:27 -0400

Amazon Web Services Blog: Amazon Linux AMI - General Availability and New Features:

Wow amazon really tackled the main problems I had with their AMI last time I tried it (puppet & epel). Guess its worth another shot.

Why I Don’t Use Third-Party Binary Packages - The Lone Sysadmin

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 21:53:03 -0400

Why I Don’t Use Third-Party Binary Packages - The Lone Sysadmin:

I picked a nit with Bob Plankers(tm).

"today we are releasing the latest addition to the Page Speed family: Page Speed Service. Page Speed..."

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 08:10:33 -0400

“today we are releasing the latest addition to the Page Speed family: Page Speed Service. Page Speed Service is an online service that automatically speeds up loading of your web pages. To use the service, you need to sign up and point your site’s DNS entry to Google. Page Speed Service fetches content from your servers, rewrites your pages by applying web performance best practices, and serves them to end users via Google’s servers across the globe.”

- Page Speed Service: Web performance, delivered. - The official Google Code blog

holy crap, google just launched a CDN out of nowhere

"If you’re lazy, you go to Google; if you want cash, you go to Facebook; if you want cool work, you..."

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:05:53 -0400

““If you’re lazy, you go to Google; if you want cash, you go to Facebook; if you want cool work, you go to a start-up.””

- Raiders of the Last Nerd | Betabeat — News, gossip and intel from Silicon Alley 2.0.