Posts by author: Brandon Seibel
Now that we’ve started doing some Scala development internally and in particular using sbt as our build tool of choice we hit our first little snag when it came to integrating these scala projects into the same development flow as all of our other projects. We use Atlassian’s Bamboo to handle all of our code [...]
I have only just started learning Scala over the last week or so and I have to say I’ve already fallen in love with it. The learning curve stems mostly from having to switch my imperative style thinking into a functional one, which is pretty difficult since its like trying to drop every bad habit you’ve ever [...]
Something is afoot in the above graph, what I can tell you is at around 10:15pm is when I disabled transparent hugepages on this box. So where why am I suddenly buffering and caching more? What are transparent hugepages? From what I understand hugepages were introduced to maximize the use of the TLB (translation lookaside [...]
I was making my way through the sites in my daily reading rotation tonight when I saw a fairly suspicious article posted on the High Scalability blog talking about 5 things poisonous to scalability. I dont know how this managed to make it through their normally decent moderation because it read more like cheap marketing [...]
Thanks to Erik for pointing this out, he has also put up a easy HOWTO for fixing this on his blog. So it turns out all is not lost, you can still revert to the original behaviour of apples resolver! They’ve added a parameter to mDNSResponder called -AlwaysAppendSearchDomains. Implying that this new behaviour was very intentional. I [...]
Have you just updated to the latest and greatest Apple operating system? Noticing anything .. funky? No, I’m not talking about the fact they think the ‘natural’ way to scroll on a mouse is by reversing what everyones been using since the creation of the scroll wheel. I’m talking about the serious regression in name [...]
We’ve been using the Barracuda Backup appliance for a few years now primarily to provide us with a 3rd party source for storing backups that aren’t physically removable by our own employees, effectively backups for disaster recovery purposes only. They can send us hard disks of our content in the unfortunate event that we require it. Great. [...]
Cloud Foundry was recently unveiled by VMWare at JAX in London and given the recent failings of other cloud hosting providers I think timing couldn’t have been better. What do you do when you’ve built your entire infrastructure on one vendors ‘cloud’? You’ve tied in all of their API’s into your application to make the [...]
Having overseen a fair number of site acquisitions theres a very noticeable trend when it comes to the security practises used on sites hosted in the US versus those hosted overseas. Its common to see servers wide open to the internet with little to no concern for the traffic inbound or outbound; SSH available on [...]
Over the course of the last month or so I’ve been working intensively on a new piece of software for VerticalScope that allows us to very easily and quickly see the goings-on across all of our owned properties with a wide variety of metrics to choose from, in effect this software is bringing some business [...]
