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The Decline and Fall of BIND 10 [pdf](ripe68.ripe.net)
66 points by ook 12y ago|59 comments
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Monitorama PDX 2014 – James Mickens(vimeo.com)
11 points by ook 12y ago|0 comments
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Packagecloud.io Hosted package repositories(packagecloud.io)
2 points by ook 12y ago|0 comments
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With $16B WhatsApp acquisition, jankoum becomes 2nd w00w00 billionaire.(twitter.com)
1 points by ook 13y ago|0 comments
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by ook 13y ago
A reasonable approximation is to model a sine wave per region with peak amplitude based on typical usage patterns. For example entertainment services will peak in evenings and at weekends, business services will peak during typical core hou
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Meet the people who keep some of your favorite games running(polygon.com)
1 points by ook 13y ago|0 comments
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by ook 13y ago
Use iPxe ( http://ipxe.org/ ) to boot from a http image server.
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How Google roll out OS updates and new distros for their server fleet(marc.merlins.org)
2 points by ook 13y ago|0 comments
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by ook 13y ago
I think any of Logging/Monitoring/Metrics at scale can be thought of as Chicken & Egg problems. They are important, hard to do well and have a bad habit of only causing issues which swallow engineering time when you are firefi
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Why Spooling? Custom graphite branch to re-architect & scale carbon relay(github.com)
1 points by ook 13y ago|0 comments
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by ook 13y ago
Security Professional with hacker buddies who did TJ Maxx hack talking at length frankly about his prosecution under conspiracy charges by same prosecutor who prosecuted Aaron Swartz. See http://venturebeat.com/2013/01/17/convicted-hacker-
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Stephen Watt keynote at Infiltratecon 2013(infiltratecon.com)
5 points by ook 13y ago|1 comments
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Communication costs in real-world networks(bailis.org)
2 points by ook 13y ago|0 comments
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by ook 13y ago
Automating infrastructure and treating it like code is a similar shift in mindset to embracing test driven development for the first time. It appears daunting, but once you get over the hump you can't imagine how you ever survived without i
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by ook 13y ago
Nothing Automated network installer (eg cobbler) installs OS, which installs a configuration management system (eg puppet or chef or ansible) which sets up the server appropriately. Done correctly someone logging into a non development serv
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Internet Census 2012 - Port scanning /0 using insecure embedded devices(seclists.org)
4 points by ook 14y ago|0 comments
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New Squarepusher album(warp.net)
3 points by ook 14y ago|0 comments
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by ook 14y ago
I heartily endorse this product and/or service.
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Open Sourcing our Operational Scale Tools–Meet Trigger (loosebolts.wordpress.com)
1 points by ook 15y ago|0 comments
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by ook 15y ago
I just found these slides from a MSC Module at an Irish university on "Software in Production" which are well worth reading through if you're tasked with scaling systems and have a Software Development background: http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~
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by ook 15y ago
I have helped scale (non web) low latency systems in some pretty stressful situations. In addition to the sage advice about monitoring / metrics, mentoring and not scaling until necessary I think the following are useful: * Design Services
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by ook 15y ago
A follow up to https://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/10/03/141011155/did-a-r... Which was discussed in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3068991
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Let's be Clear: I didn't invent Bitcoin(irishtimes.com)
40 points by ook 15y ago|11 comments
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by ook 15y ago
There's a pretty good interview with Michael Clear in todays Irish Times: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2011/1008/122430...
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by ook 15y ago
Far from scientific analysis but using Unmask[1] I get a pretty low scare (109/300) comparing the first Michael Clear pre-print I could find against the Bitcoin paper. [1] http://immunityinc.com/downloads/unmask1.0.tar.gz
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by ook 16y ago
I forgot to say, any questions drop me a mail ook-hn@yumm.ie
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by ook 16y ago
Demonware - Irish video game network middleware startup acquired by Activision in 2007. We develop custom client and server side software in C++ (client/server) and Erlang, Python & Mysql etc (server) for the biggest games in the world.
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by ook 17y ago
This looks really neat but it's not a runner for us as it's a 3rd party hosted solution. Do you have any plans for a packaged version which companies can host themselves?