Monthly Archives: October 2007

Do you have a custom logging module? Ever wondered how long it took to actually finish logging? At $work I was helping with some problems with Apache, and we wanted to know how long until an Apache Worker Process actually … Continue reading →

We thought gltail sounded pretty cool. So we hooked it into bloglines.com: (Screenshot is clipped to protect user data) It worked okay for 1 webserver. But hooking it up to the entire cluster, it was just a little bit too … Continue reading →

Slides from my GeekSessions 1.2 Presentation Video from the presentation and panel are supposed to show up here at some point soon.

The End of an Architectural Era (It’s Time for a Complete Rewrite) [Via Wesley Felter] With CouchDB gaining traction, and the recent paper on Dynamo, it feels like people everywhere are dropping their relational databases.  Are the database vendors going … Continue reading →

If you care about distributed systems, you need to read the paper about Amazon’s Dynamo. Comments: Making node joining/leaving an administrative command is not something most academics consider, but it significantly reduces complexity.  We made a similar decision with the … Continue reading →