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Last weekend, our team named “Ponies for Orphans” participated in the Node Knockout competition.  The team included 3 of my co-workers from Cloudkick, Russell, Tomaz, Logan, and myself. In 48 hours, we had to build a project based on Node.js. We … Continue reading →

Have a big blog post over on the Cloudkick Blog about Writing Node.js Native Extensions.

We started discussing TLS in Node.js at the meetup in Palo Alto tonight. Lets imagine you wanted to implement SSL/TLS in an Asynchronous framework, like node.js. For the sake of discussion, I will be using OpenSSL as an example.  At least … Continue reading →

At Velocity, I saw Adam Langley give a great presentation entitled Overclocking SSL. Last week Adam posted a distilled version of the Overclocking SSL presentation on his blog. He covers many topics for improving SSL performance. Unfortunately, his recommendations are decidedly focused … Continue reading →

Back at the May 2010 Board meeting of the Apache Software Foundation, there was a discussion about releases.  It got me thinking about how my own use of many open source projects has changed. The Past – Long Cycles, few releases, software … Continue reading →

Gave an Ignite Velocity talk tonight at Velocity about Apache Libcloud. The Ignite format is 20 slides, automatically advancing every 15 seconds — I think I did okay, though I had a few slides where I needed better timing without … Continue reading →

The Past and Present I’ve written dozens of event loops for network services, in C, C++, Python, Perl, Java, Lua, Go and probably other languages at this point.  They all make me reinvent handling of events, none of them are … Continue reading →

I have been to nearly a dozen countries the last few years, done all kinds of fun stuff, yet almost none of it is archived in any way.  I won’t cure cancer or win a Nobel Peace Prize, but I … Continue reading →

Security on the Internet sucks, and it is only getting worse.  The problem is systemic, with security researchers and developers not producing viable ways for the average user to live on the Internet in a secure fashion without excessive paranoia. … Continue reading →

ps happy birthday Sam!

I did a  post about the first day at SXSW, but I failed to post any others for the following 9 days.  I also made 0 tweets, but successfully checked into a total of 4 places on foursquare. I am … Continue reading →

Everyone from Cloudkick arrived in Austin for SXSW 2010 on Thursday evening, so Day 0 technically.  Bob found us a nice condo to rent just outside the downtown, but still easy walking distance to everything.  We picked up our badges … Continue reading →

I was happy to attend the “Facebook Technology Tasting” event tonight, where they gave a presentation about their newest open source project, HipHop for PHP. HipHop is definitely some very cool technology, built by an enthusiastic team, solving real world … Continue reading →

I started at Cloudkick in August, and today we announced our for-pay products & Freemium model.  (TechCrunch, GigaOm, ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat, and more) I’ve been working along with the entire Cloudkick Team on a few parts of our launch: Integration with … Continue reading →

mod_cache has a pretty inflexible configuration setup.  CacheEnable can only take a prefix of a path to be cached, and to disable a sub-path with CacheDisable, you need to list all of the possible prefixes (ie, no regular expressions). Lets … Continue reading →