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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 [...]
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. [...]
As this week draws to a close I’ve been asking myself what’s going on with companies and their social media push and more importantly why has Twitter become a better escalation path to getting support than the official channels. This isn’t just me experiencing this either, two of my good friends have had similar experiences [...]
Bit of a rant today about something that I’m sure everyone in this industry has faced at one point or another in their careers. I’m talking about the amount of time it takes to get a critical issue resolved via ticket or other standard escalation path, and in general the attitude some sysadmins take when dealing [...]
When you rebuild your infrastructure from scratch and have it monitored so closely its inevitable that you are going to open a can of worms for the development team. Some background for you, our development team has had a pretty big turnover as of late so the majority of the developers now are fairly new and are [...]
Oh Facebook, we have this tolerant and hate relationship don’t we. I can understand with the sheer quantity of traffic you receive that compromises must be made but after this last experience it makes me wonder exactly out of the entire system how many ‘update’ operations are just plain lost completely with no chance for recovery. What [...]
We’ve been updating our FreeBSD installs with GCC 4.4 to compile our ports with to squeeze out that extra bit of performance it brings. Unfortuantely for the last few days its been broken. I guess someone decided to blindly push an update to the port as it breaks pretty spectacularly. The sad part is it [...]
I love NetApp but they still have a few quirks that bug the hell out of me. First and foremost is the sheer CPU hit a filer will take from handling GETATTR ops. With modern NFS client cache implementations we’ve moved the predominant NFS operation to 40-60% GETATTR calls, sometimes even higher on more unique [...]
For a blog about scaling my first post will be a rant about my ride in to work today, fitting I think! For the most part the commute on the GO in the morning is enjoyable. I have my crew of people I sit with every day and I have the option to get a [...]
