pedoh

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by pedoh 15y ago
In Thomas Hatch's blog he says that he wants Salt to be a viable competitor to Puppet.[1] It looks like Salt's grains[2] are similar to Puppet's facter[3]; it would probably be fairly easy to write a grain that would pull in facter data, so
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by pedoh 15y ago
I wonder what would happen if you tried to make the negotion process as transparent as possible; something along the lines of: "Look, I've read all of the negotiation strategy books, and clearly you're an expert in your field, so let's agre
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by pedoh 15y ago
> No re-registration or change of any kind of the existing domains is necessary. So who gets to own www.foobar, the owner of www.foobar.com, www.foobar.net, or www.foobar.org?
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by pedoh 15y ago
Does the reverse (finding a business cofounder) also apply? What resources do you recommend a technical person gather (beyond things like Rework, which I grok, and Four Steps to the Epiphany, which I need to reread and try to grok)?
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by pedoh 15y ago
What do you view as the advantages of PostFrenzy vs. FogBugz's Trello?
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by pedoh 15y ago
I think 0MQ is brilliant. If this is your first time looking at 0MQ, I'd suggest the following: http://www.zeromq.org/intro:read-the-manual Watch the first video by Ian Barber. He's an excellent presenter. The guide ( http://zguide.zerom
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by pedoh 15y ago
What python module did you wind up using for your Python bot?
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by pedoh 15y ago
I think a StackOverflow style app would be powerful, and yet I don't want to add yet another "knowledge base" style application on top of, say, an internal wiki, ticket tracking systems, git commit messages, et cetera. What do you use to ti
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by pedoh 15y ago
This is a great list. Thanks for creating it. There's no mention of PagerDuty in the Alerts / Monitoring section. There's also nothing in the way of DevOps tools a la Puppet / Chef, and metrics tools such as Graphite.
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by pedoh 15y ago
ExtJS has two commercial licenses and an open source license: http://www.sencha.com/products/extjs/license/
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by pedoh 15y ago
I can't argue with that one, but gravity's a bit tough. Several of my colleagues are using git-svn, and would probably love to flip over to git.
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by pedoh 15y ago
Chef and Puppet can definitely do this for you, without servers involved. Another great use of Chef and Puppet can be seen in Vagrant ( http://vagrantup.com/ ). Vagrant uses VirtualBox ( http://www.virtualbox.org/ ) to create virtual instan
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by pedoh 15y ago
We're using Puppet for our deployments, and not just initial deployments, but for code deployments as well. The puppet node classifier talks to a MySQL database that has the "right" versions for a particular server in it; upgrading consists
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by pedoh 15y ago
mopoke, You're absolutely correct; without the people processes in place, the world's best tools aren't going to do anything for you. I'll ponder over that for the next blog post.
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DevOps in Milliseconds(techblog.appnexus.com)
39 points by pedoh 15y ago|19 comments
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by pedoh 15y ago
We're currently using Graphite ( http://techblog.appnexus.com/2011/metrics/ ) and loving it, but using MongoDB is an interesting spin. I'd love to see some performance benchmarks and see how many datapoints you can pump in and out of Cube
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by pedoh 15y ago
The big takeaway for me from this article is "treat your employees well". It may be that some devs prefer sitting in a beanbag chair with a 13" laptop. Do you think Fog Creek is going to say no? Heck no. They're going to do whatever it take
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by pedoh 15y ago
I just wrote a blog post about metrics. We're collecting about a million datapoints every minute, using an open source package (that we're contributing back to) called Graphite. http://techblog.appnexus.com/2011/metrics/
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Graphite for metrics aggregation and display(techblog.appnexus.com)
3 points by pedoh 15y ago|0 comments
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by pedoh 15y ago
Buy one domain, then use one subdomain for each idea.
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by pedoh 15y ago
Here's Pingdom's response: http://blog.pingdom.com/2011/06/22/about-yesterday%E2%80%99s... If I were a customer, I would think this is a good response. It's essentially, "Here's what went wrong, and here's how we're going to fix it." If I
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by pedoh 15y ago
Any time you put your eggs in one basket you're setting yourself up for potential problems. Use Pingdom, but then add in either a direct competitor or someone else like Keynote or Gomez (no endorsements of any of the above by me, by the way
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by pedoh 15y ago
How do you propose handling the abusers who download the app and then point their virtual fingers at some random person in the theater?
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by pedoh 15y ago
Roots by Alex Haley. My copy is read, re-read, worn, and well loved. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Haley#Roots
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by pedoh 15y ago
Some of these companies are direct competitors in that how they differ is in their algorithms or the sliver of the market they're trying to "be the best" for. But then you get into the difference between networks, exchanges, DSPs, et cetera
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by pedoh 15y ago
Is the owner aware of how unhappy you are? Is your boss aware of how unhappy you are? Is there any chance you can be happy at your current company? If the answers are "yes, yes, no", then your path seems pretty clear. Give appropriate notic
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by pedoh 15y ago
What are the reasons you think AWS is your ultimate destination instead of Linode? My advice would be to use a DevOps tool like Puppet or Chef to create recipes to make deploying new infrastructure as painless as possible. If you take it fa
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by pedoh 15y ago
I'm going to comment solely on the adoption of Dev Ops, which I personally consider to include change management, incident management, deployment, monitoring, metrics, and file distribution. I believe that the barrier to adopting solid Dev
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by pedoh 16y ago
It's going to vary so much from child to child. This is your first, so you've got a lot to get used to. I think you don't want to travel too early. Sleep is going to be at a premium. Establish your rhythms. Give it six weeks or two months a
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by pedoh 16y ago
Hah, I like the floor analogy. I can also attest to sleeping with the baby on my chest without crushing her, despite our decision to not have her in the bed with us. As you can see, there are lots of different opinions, and they're all held

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