Mongrel Cluster Under SMF Control
I've got the best users hands down. I'm really proud of the work of Mr. Mark Cornick and his recent Mongrel, meet SMF; SMF, meet Mongrel blog entry in which he shares his excellent manifest for handling Mongrel's as a service under SMF, including Capistrano tasks. This manifest first popped up in the TextDrive Containers Forum after I posted a HOWTO for users interested in harnessing the power of SMF, which I'm fairly proud of: HOWTO: ...
O’Reilly Short Cuts: Mongrel
I just bought my first O'Reilly Short Cuts on Mongrel. At Joyent I spend a lot of time working with Mongrel so I thought maybe I'd learn something new... besides, I was curious whether or not these Short Cuts were worth it. The document is only available in PDF, weighs in at 53 pages and costs $9.99. The PDF is dense, so dense that its hard to distinguish section headings from captions. Only two pages are "wasted", the title page ...
A Nice Holiday Break
Tamarah, Nova, Glenn, and I just returned from the 4 day weekend... and man was it nice. Now that my home is "the office" there was more an appreciation for leaving than I've had in the past. Most important I only did about 2-3 hours of work while on vacation, which was nice. Interesting highlights include seeing Happy Feet with the kids, the first movie we've taken both of them too (Nova's first movie experience was The Hitchhikers ...
Life at Joyent
We're now doing a weekly podcast at Joyent: ps pipe grep. (No, I didn't have anything to do with the name.) Apparently Joyent is also doing a new weekly comic strip: Benr & Shanr... a strip that I had nothing to do with (as evidence by the fact that my "character" is wearing pants). The first time I saw it was in the blog like everyone else. As for providing real content in this blog... I'm hoping to get back to it soonish. ...
The Secret Behind MediaTemple’s Grid-Server
There has been a lot of buzz around (mt) MediaTemple's latest offering this week: (gs) Grid Server. I listened to a podCast at TechCrunch and was really sucked into the marketing speak about the offering. But as a SysAdmin I wanted to know how it worked. The key to the product is that you setup your enviroment once and its "automatically deployed on the grid", thereby even your little site is benefiting from the collective resources of the ...
Anandtech & Enterprise Storage
I haven't checked Anandtech in months, but felt the desire tonight. Frankly, its the best hardware review site it is, and Anand Lal Shimpi's book The AnandTech Guide to PC Gaming Hardware is quite simply the best book ever written about X86 hardware, bar none, suffering only because its title massively misrepresents the bredth of content. Reguardless, I was felt the ned to point everyone toward an excellent article written by Johan De ...
Pillar Data Desperate for News?
I couldn't help coming across the following article found pronounced on Pillar Data's front page: NetApp Unseated at NASA Unit. The article is from August but Pillar is still proud of it. I'll save you the hassle of reading it... basically: NASA's Solar Data Analysis Center bought a NetApp F840 in 2002. That was about toward the end of the F840's life, so it wasn't hot hardware even at the time, so they must have bought just prior to ...
Blackbox is Real
After I learned of Project Blackbox I got excited... real excited. Anyone who has been around Sun in the Bay Area will recognize in the video the building behind it: the Executive Briefing Center on the Menlo Park Campus. I live across the bridge so I kicked my Volvo S70 T5's turbo into action and flew across the bridge. And I found what I sought.... It is really real. On the net the thing looks like a gag... a complex and complete ...
Joyent & Sun: The Movie
Hi... remember me? I used to blog and stuff. But like, now, I have to actually work for a living. It was nice at Homestead, my former place of employment, because I'd been there long enough to have automated and built almost everything. I did like maybe 3 hours of real work a day. It was sweet, and I blogged a lot. But, now I'm a new guy with lots of stuff to design and build, no sleep for me. Wanna see the guys I work for? Sun ...