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by mattyb 14y ago
We've seen the same behavior, so we do the draining via HAProxy, which does the right thing.
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by mattyb 14y ago
I mentioned this in a thread the other day; I've yet to see a good use case for hot code reloading. Can you really not drain requests to that host via HAProxy (or similar), and then actually restart the service? The nice thing about that ap
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by mattyb 14y ago
Any idea if HBase can work with this? Looks like there are patches for hadoop-core, a quick skim didn't reveal if HBase changes are needed.
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by mattyb 14y ago
By 'taking the resource out of the pool', I had HAProxy in mind, not the service itself. And naught is the equivalent of a process supervisor. No, it's not. Can Naught do this? http://mmonit.com/monit/documentation/monit.html#service_tes
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by mattyb 14y ago
I've never been interested in hot code-swapping; I find it's sufficient to just take that resource out of the pool, give it the new goodies and then boot it up again. I know the Erlang runtime can do this, but I've yet to find a good use ca
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by mattyb 14y ago
+1!
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by mattyb 14y ago
That is a good paper. Thanks for the pointer!
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Federated Graphite(rcrowley.org)
2 points by mattyb 14y ago|0 comments
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by mattyb 14y ago
You don't use this over collectd; you can use BatsD with it. These tools are complementary. collectd is very good at collecting system-level metrics and sending them somewhere. Batsd is a system for receiving those metrics and storing t
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by mattyb 14y ago
While graphite at least tried to mimic the RRDTool file-format 37signals just skips over that whole "complicated binary-stuff" and writes the data as newline-delimited ascii-text... What benefit lies in trying to mimic RRDTool's file form
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by mattyb 14y ago
The Etsy blog post that introduced StatsD is helpful: http://codeascraft.etsy.com/2011/02/15/measure-anything-meas...
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by mattyb 14y ago
According to the documentation, they are the same: http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.6.18/api/modules.html#modules_the_...
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by mattyb 14y ago
How are FPM-generated debs any less integrated than native packages? You have the same control over the package metadata using its flags as you do with a Debian control file, and using `-s dir`, you have complete control over the package co
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by mattyb 15y ago
Homebrew makes installing Cairo very pleasant.
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by mattyb 15y ago
as opposed to a self-running Sinatra handler which has to be quite significantly modified to be Rack-compatible Huh? Here's the `config.ru` that you need: $: << File.dirname(__FILE__) require 'app' #assuming app.rb run Si
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by mattyb 15y ago
Graphite is not a monitoring tool. It stores time series data and graphs it. You can write a monitoring system that queries Graphite, and send notifications from there. Graphite can give you the raw data that backs the graphs: http://graph
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by mattyb 15y ago
Graphite is not abandonware: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~graphite-dev/graphite/main/chan... The documentation could use a lot of work, but do note that it now lives here: http://graphite.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html
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by mattyb 15y ago
Is there a compelling reason to not use google's own LevelDB? LevelDB is a key-value storage library. MySQL is a relational database server. They are about as different as data stores can get.
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by mattyb 15y ago
Cool! This will help make our Node.js packaging pipeline much more predictable :-)
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Developing Operability(rcrowley.org)
1 points by mattyb 15y ago|0 comments
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by mattyb 15y ago
Not that it makes any difference, but Berkeley isn't an Ivy League school.
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by mattyb 15y ago
What are some of Riak's shortcomings?
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by mattyb 15y ago
Just worked for me (at 2:43AM PST). Thanks for pointing that out!
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by mattyb 15y ago
At least for (recent versions of) Ubuntu Server, a C compiler isn't available on a bare install, so it'd need to just be Bash. And what's with the aversion to dependencies? Installing Ruby is just an apt-get invocation away from a bare serv
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by mattyb 15y ago
I suspect sneak is implying that you should build packages on a build box, then your other servers can just grab those instead of compiling themselves. It's a good idea.
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by mattyb 15y ago
Type "cache: http://dtuite.github.com/define-custom-vim-tags-and-labels.h... into Chrome's address bar and hit enter to see the content. The repo is no longer visible ( http://davidtuite.com/define-custom-vim-tags-and-labels.html ), so I'm
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by mattyb 15y ago
I find it hard to beleive your company can't spend $100 on offloading to a managed resource such as GitHub. Oh, we can. We just haven't needed to yet.
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by mattyb 15y ago
I have 94 megabytes of git repositories at work. Github would want $100/month to host that. Huh? My $7/month plan comes with 600+MB of storage, and my job's $50/month plan comes with 6GB. Where are you getting these numbers?
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Introducing Setler for Feature Flags(napkin.highgroove.com)
3 points by mattyb 15y ago|0 comments
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by mattyb 15y ago
He used Scott Chacon's excellent ShowOff: https://github.com/schacon/showoff

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