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Thoughts on the Technical Track(mcfunley.com)
1 points by ajdecon 11y ago|0 comments
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by ajdecon 11y ago
I guess if you're running 5 servers and each one has 4 functions, more "interesting" naming schemes can work. But once you're dealing with more than a few machines, functional names are necessary. When I see a machine&#x
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Charity Majors – Hiring a Tech Ops Team (video and transcript)(heavybit.com)
2 points by ajdecon 11y ago|1 comments
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by ajdecon 11y ago
Interesting! I'll have to check this out, thanks!
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by ajdecon 11y ago
The "High Performance Conjugate Gradients" benchmark was proposed a couple years ago as an alternative metric for ranking supercomputers. Its proponents claim its behavior is more similar to real applications (irregular access pat
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Choosing a Linux Tracer(brendangregg.com)
87 points by ajdecon 11y ago|2 comments
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by ajdecon 11y ago
Philosophically, I'd like to see more non-connected link aggregation sites built around specific communities. I.e., there's no reason /r/askhistorians can't be www.askhistorians.whatever and serve the same purpose.
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How Complex Systems Fail [pdf](web.mit.edu)
3 points by ajdecon 11y ago|0 comments
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by ajdecon 11y ago
What would be necessary to make living in space a real and sustainable possibility? Heck -- what would be necessary to make our current, planet-bound society sustainable in the long term? How can we address the massive inequality in the wor
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by ajdecon 11y ago
Go to the library. (Yes, the place with all the books. ;-) ) Wander through the nonfiction section and scan the titles. If anything catches your eye, pick it up and read the first couple pages. If it seems at all interesting, check it out a
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How Complex Systems Fail (2000) [pdf](web.mit.edu)
12 points by ajdecon 12y ago|0 comments
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Where Docker security may be headed(opensource.com)
4 points by ajdecon 12y ago|0 comments
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Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods (2013)(somethingsimilar.com)
100 points by ajdecon 12y ago|7 comments
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by ajdecon 12y ago
This is true, but at the upper end the "it isn't Big Data if it fits in a single system's memory" rule starts to get fuzzy. If you're using an SGI UV 2000 with 64 TB of memory to do your processing, I'm not goi
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by ajdecon 12y ago
And following up: Your laptop does not count as a "single machine" for purposes of RAM size. If you can fit the index of your DB in memory on anything you can get through EC2, it's still not Big Data.
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by ajdecon 12y ago
I've mostly worked in operations, which IME is a field with a very high concentration of stack people. Sysadmins (including myself!) tend to derive great pain from the presence of a production issue and feel the need to fix it immediat
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by ajdecon 12y ago
Oil and gas already does a hell of a lot of computing, and invests heavily in supercomputing facilities. [0] I'm not too familiar with the domain, but looking at abstracts of conferences like the Oil & Gas HPC Workshop [1] might gi
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Software Checklist(solipsys.co.uk)
1 points by ajdecon 12y ago|1 comments
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Graceful Degradation(solipsys.co.uk)
2 points by ajdecon 12y ago|0 comments
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Simplifying the EC2 Reserved Instance Model(aws.amazon.com)
42 points by ajdecon 12y ago|22 comments
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Summit – Oak Ridge National Laboratory's new supercomputer coming in 2018(olcf.ornl.gov)
23 points by ajdecon 12y ago|8 comments
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by ajdecon 12y ago
I really think there are no good reasons to include build tools in a docker image. The author lists three possible reasons: - you need a specific version (e.g. redis is pretty old in the Debian repositories). - you need to compile with spec
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Linearizability versus Serializability(bailis.org)
9 points by ajdecon 12y ago|0 comments
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by ajdecon 12y ago
At the moment I use feedly, though I may consider newsblur at some point. I could not live without my rss feeds. :)
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by ajdecon 12y ago
The Cray brochure for this system has more information, including detailed specs: http://www.cray.com/Assets/PDF/products/cs/CrayCS-Storm.pdf A few fun points from the brochure: - The internal network (&
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by ajdecon 12y ago
Remember you may have to deploy third-party processes as well as apps whose code you control. Most existing software uses OS-standard APIs for doing things like resolving hosts, and you can't just point it at a path in zk. That means r
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by ajdecon 12y ago
I don't have time to write a detailed post, but would a book recommendation work? :) "The Practice of Cloud System Administration: Designing and Operating Large Distributed Systems", coming out next month, provides a good vie
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Scalzi: Subscription Services and My Writing(whatever.scalzi.com)
3 points by ajdecon 12y ago|0 comments
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by ajdecon 12y ago
There are a few others... Nvidia has a list at http://www.nvidia.com/object/gpu-cloud-computing-services.ht...
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Fe[26](newbrict.github.io)
1 points by ajdecon 12y ago|0 comments

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