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Comment on DevOps Illustrated by Peco

Peco — Thu, 17 May 2012 00:39:35 +0000

Notice the shiny black helmet in the front … Management keeping an eye on all your devops shenanigans!

Comment on Why Does Cloud Load Balancing Suck? by José García Robles

José García Robles — Tue, 15 May 2012 16:48:24 +0000

Have you tested Zen Load Balancer? It is still in development, but it can be a very good open source load balancer solution. It is moving with the suggestions of their users, and the develpment team is very active. If you don’t find the features you need, you can suggest it to the mailing list.

Comment on Amazon CloudFormation: Model Driven Automation For The Cloud by ernestm

ernestm — Sat, 12 May 2012 01:11:34 +0000

They are working on open sourcing it somewhat despite the NI legal department. Watch https://github.com/PIEFramework, they have some code out…

Comment on Why Amazon Reserve Instances Torment Me by ernestm

ernestm — Sat, 12 May 2012 01:10:21 +0000

Well sure, that’s the default use. Doesn’t help with the problems if you’re using multiple AZs, OSes, sizes… If you are running “750-100 of exactly the same thing” then they’re great.

Comment on What Is DevOps? by DevOps | andrewleaning.com

DevOps | andrewleaning.com — Thu, 03 May 2012 13:08:23 +0000

[...] definition of devops is ““developer and operations collaboration” (source: whatisdevops) or to borrow the wikipedia definition, it’s an “emerging set of principles, methods [...]

Comment on Velocity 2010: Ignite! by HTTP Compression use by Alexa Top 1000 | Zoompf

HTTP Compression use by Alexa Top 1000 | Zoompf — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:12:53 +0000

[...] should be something that is charted over time, to see if we are improving. My last figure, from 2010, showed 78% of Alexa Top 1000 sites having at least 1 resource served without compression by the HTTP. Perhaps this should be added to [...]

Comment on Amazon CloudFormation: Model Driven Automation For The Cloud by Jeff Hoffman

Jeff Hoffman — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:30:20 +0000

Is the PIE fully baked? Would love to give it a run through, seems easier than manually creating the AWS Templates.

Any DEVOPS/TA in the Chicago area?

Comment on Why Amazon Reserve Instances Torment Me by patchy

patchy — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:03:17 +0000

Is there an argument against using reserved instances for “base capacity” and autoscaling with on-demand? That way, you are able to get a fix on your fixed costs. Thanks.

Comment on Why Does Cloud Load Balancing Suck? by ernestm

ernestm — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 23:42:42 +0000

We had that, not load balancing itself per se but from our network redundancy around our front end, ended up repeating packets on us. I forget what we did about it, mainly yelled at our network admins…

Comment on Why SSL Sucks by ernestm

ernestm — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 23:37:03 +0000

Also make sure you’re on the newest version of OpenDS because on old ones, ssl encrypted replication didn’t work and messed up your installation for good.