Monthly Archives: January 2008
Great presentation from Dan Pritchett at eBay on operational manageability
Here at infoq.Dan made a number of interesting points that resonate with our experience: The need to figure out dependencies before crisis hits The main point here is that good software design heavily promotes resource abstraction. Databases become simple data … Continue reading
Release It! is a great book
At long last a book about production-ready software aimed at developers. More often than not (except in the small web 2.0 startups) people who write software do not operate it and vice-versa. Hence the prevailing mentality among developers than tested means done. … Continue reading
On Joyent’s recent storage mishaps
I have read with interests comments on Joyent’s blog of disgruntled users among which professional system administrators seemed to be found. Beyond the technical merits of the recovery it is quite clear that selling storage services with no backup scheme that … Continue reading
Options to build cheap unified storage
We have been running happily with a 3Par S400 in production and it has delivered so far according to our expectations. The ease of management has made the anarchy of our development environments more conspicuous, to the point that we … Continue reading
