pquerna

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   by pquerna 17y ago

   I thought it was a pretty cool implementation (zero memory alloc is pretty hard most of the time), though I was disappointed how HTTP methods were hard coded in, so adding a new HTTP method (like PROPFIND?) would be adding a ton of code, th
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   by pquerna 17y ago

   Because the FreeBSD userland enviroment and ports collection are sane, and there is a reasonable way to do upgrades, while with OpenSolaris you have... what?
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   by pquerna 17y ago

   FreeBSD 7/8 are really starting to feel like the decisions made in 5.x are starting the pay off. Between the ULE Scheduler, ZFS filesystem, DTrace (even if not as good as on Solaris) and the new Jails, Its a pretty sweet technology packed
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   by pquerna 17y ago

   I quit Joost to join Cloudkick in August. I was originally working on the P2P team (working on the code that the whole Skype Lawsuit is about), but after we changed to flash based, I worked on http based content distribution and the webapp.
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   by pquerna 17y ago

   ZFS on FreeBSD is great, but its mostly ZFS is great compared to UFS/geom or ext{3,4}/LVM. svn.apache.org is using it now, we caused many panics on FreeBSD 7.x with ZFS -- and lots of patches are now baked into 8.x, with all the patches ZFS
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   by pquerna 17y ago

   you don't always get a NAT IP -- it seems to be a locality thing, depending on how and where they are bridging from the telephone network to the internet -- I've always seen a public IP in San Jose.
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   by pquerna 17y ago

   SQLite locking: http://www.sqlite.org/lockingv3.html """ An EXCLUSIVE lock is needed in order to write to the database file. Only one EXCLUSIVE lock is allowed on the file and no other locks of any kind are allowed to coexist with an EXCL
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   by pquerna 17y ago

   Good lesson that RAID != Backup! RAID5 by chance?
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   by pquerna 17y ago

   Actually Brian McCallister wrote much of the initial implementation, then called mod_wombat.. I just helped with various bits and kinda championed for including it in apache httpd. I've used lua for several other projects, and I love its em
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    by pquerna 17y ago

    using lua is by far the best language to embed -- its why apache httpd is including mod_lua by default in 2.4, the next major version.
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    by pquerna 17y ago

    https://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/apache_org_downtime_ini...