https://lethargy.org/~jesus/ Recent content on Esoteric Curio Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Wed, 03 Jun 2020 14:51:37 -0400 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/a-guide-to-nomenclature-selection/ Wed, 03 Jun 2020 14:51:37 -0400 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/a-guide-to-nomenclature-selection/ This is a guide for choosing terminology for software and software products. I’ve been in the field for a while and things have changed. It stands to reason that things will continue to change. Just as language changes over time, so should the nomenclature we use to describe the software and services we build in tech. This serves as a living guide as to how one might go about selecting choice words for things. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/prose/dearest-tree/ Tue, 14 Jan 2020 19:13:07 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/prose/dearest-tree/ Dearest tree, Bark to heart you grow. Uncomfortably askew To eyes that fail to see your Struggle and the resulting Majesty with which it crowned you. Not my eyes. I see you. Such a journey. So many of your kind have Lost to the uncaring brutality of nature and the Small minds of men and their ambition. Surviving only to provide comfort to the universe Untainted by deserved spite. Destined To fall and return to Earth. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/software-abstractions/ Wed, 08 Jan 2020 14:05:04 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/software-abstractions/ A few years back, I presented on a topic near and dear to my heart: software abstractions. I think it is critically important to take a pragmatic and critical view of software abstractions and I feel this well represents my views. I hope you enjoy this as much as I did sharing it with the wonderful audience at CraftConf. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/delete-facebook/ Wed, 21 Mar 2018 10:58:45 -0400 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/delete-facebook/ For a long time I’ve seen my peers, my loved ones, and myself dump valuable time into the Facebook platform. I’ve also seen it cause a lack of mindfulness. I have long thought that I should use it less to regain some enjoyment readily available elsewhere in my life. As an excuse, I’ve said I need it for work, for family, or just to stay connected to various communities. The recent #deletefacebook trend has caused me to reflect and rearticulate why I cannot simply delete Facebook. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/weather-yonder/ Mon, 04 Dec 2017 14:02:15 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/weather-yonder/ A while back, Lisa and I bought plot of land in West Virginia called “Schloss Hollow.” Our goals were both epic and vague. We wanted a place all our own that our children would enjoy and come back to later in life with their kids. This place is wonderful and I remain amazed at how effectively and efficiently it recharges my soul. The mobile reception out here is weak, slow and spotty. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/smoked-watermelon-mint-ice-cream/ Sat, 04 Nov 2017 14:02:15 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/smoked-watermelon-mint-ice-cream/ This sounds weird, but it is the most pleasant, smoked fruit ice cream I’ve had. Once I was making a smoked peach ice cream and realized I didn’t have peaches; show-stopper, right? Well, I had some watermelon on hand and (gasp) don’t really like watermelon all that much – this is a sharp divide between my family and me. Make the ice cream custard base, I now use this recipe b/c it works well and it’s very readable. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/smoking-meat/ Fri, 03 Nov 2017 14:02:15 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/smoking-meat/ First, I’m an amateur. But, I’m avid, regular, and profficient. I smoke meat because I like to eat the meats I smoke. I smoke meat often, because I like to do that often. I’ve tried a wide variety of smokers and smoking techniques. I have not, though intend to do so in the future, tried an actual hanging smoke house. I’ve used manual feed side boxes, Green Eggs, gas grills with cast-iron chip boxes, and electric smokers. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/sunw_cap-arcana/ Tue, 28 Feb 2017 10:16:55 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/sunw_cap-arcana/ This post is going to be useless to almost everyone, yet hopefully eye opening and fascinating. Mostly, the purpose is so that I don’t have to discover this for the third time and can, at some later date, Google this, find my own article, and simply read about it. This is a tale of linkers and code optimization and perhaps the most elegant ELF loader magic I’ve ever seen. Backgrounder Modern processors are pretty badass. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/libmtev-on-the-surface-and-under-the-hood/ Tue, 14 Feb 2017 08:28:56 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/libmtev-on-the-surface-and-under-the-hood/ I haven’t talked much publicly about libmtev, but I think it might be about time to start. The C programming language isn’t going to die anytime soon and it has some distinct performance over some of the more populate emerging languages: the compilers are the most mature and there is no garbage collection{% sidebar-link gc %} (so no GC pauses). Alas, this isn’t about C as a language, but about the library that I started (within another project) in 2007. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/craftconf-2015-~-distributed-tracing/ Wed, 29 Apr 2015 16:20:16 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/craftconf-2015-~-distributed-tracing/ I recently had the honor of talking about distributed tracing at CraftConf 2015. Wonderful conference, wonderful crowd and the talk was well received. Bset summary: “Worth watching, even if you are a vegan.” https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/data-rot/ Mon, 19 Jan 2015 18:09:57 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/data-rot/ I wrote a post about data rot over on the Circonus blog. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/mdb-custom-dmods/ Mon, 08 Dec 2014 16:14:11 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/mdb-custom-dmods/ Picking up right where we left off in our previous exercises. We’ve got a core due to an error. We fix the error by removing line 31 from myprog.c and rebuilding. The program runs now… prints out some text and pauses… to simulate a long-running program that we need to debug without disrupting too much. Let’s get a core! # UMEM_DEBUG=default ./myprog & [1] 74502 read 25144 words. # echo '::gcore' | mdb -p `pgrep myprog` mdb: core. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/mdb-ctf-dwarf-and-other-angelic-things/ Fri, 05 Dec 2014 22:56:15 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/mdb-ctf-dwarf-and-other-angelic-things/ So what’s this all about then? Debugging. I’ve written a lot of C, I still write a lot of C and I sure as hell end up debugging a lot of C. One thing that pisses me off is when I’ve got a core file, but I’ve no idea about the exact version or build of the ELF binary that produced it. The bottom line is that I still need to find the failure. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/entrepreneur-protip/ Fri, 19 Sep 2014 13:55:37 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/entrepreneur-protip/ I’ve seen various posts from a diaspora of “entrepreneurs” that have resulted in nothing more than a cacophony of conflicting advice. Some of that advice was (in my opinion) bad. What better way to fix this than add my own! I started by first business OmniTI in 1997 and then proceeded to found three other companies: Fontdeck, MessageSystems, and Circonus. I’ve been around a bit and understand the stresses of growing a company from nothing (no funding) as well as from taking rounds of financing and leveraging debt. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/til-360721/ Mon, 21 Jul 2014 20:19:58 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/til-360721/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/bvio2014/ Fri, 04 Apr 2014 15:28:14 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/bvio2014/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/til-360314/ Fri, 14 Mar 2014 19:09:15 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/til-360314/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/%E6%8A%98%E4%BC%8F-as-it-relates-to-coding/ Sat, 08 Feb 2014 18:43:13 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/%E6%8A%98%E4%BC%8F-as-it-relates-to-coding/ Open plan offices are bad. Breaking my concentration is wasteful. You hired me to code, so don’t interrupt me. I keep reading statements like this and feel compelled to supply a counterpoint. It isn’t that these are lies, it is that the are immature perspectives on a complex set of circumstances that clearly only represent a certain type of coder. In fact, I’ll claim that “coder” is either junior or selfish or both: immature. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/why-the-acm-is-important-to-me/ Fri, 24 Jan 2014 14:05:04 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/why-the-acm-is-important-to-me/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/code-vs-licenses/ Sat, 28 Sep 2013 15:40:58 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/code-vs-licenses/ Let’s start off with some basics: I understand open source licensing very well. I write a lot of code and have released code under myriad licenses. I understand the value of licensing software. I respect the authorship of code. I fucking hate talking about licensing and arguing over violations. Recently, I was harassed over GPLv2 licensing issues. It went entirely wrong, but it had a profoundly good impact on the project. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/twitter-bitch-is-not-a-protected-class/ Wed, 25 Sep 2013 16:57:32 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/twitter-bitch-is-not-a-protected-class/ The seemingly endless stream of misinterpretations of what free speech actually affords you as a citizen in the United States just keeps on flowing. {% blockquote Mark Leiser https://www.thedrum.com/news/2013/09/25/easyjet-under-fire-after-claims-it-refused-let-drum-columnist-mark-leiser-board %} It wasn’t until I asked him if he’d heard of free speech that the tone changed. {% endblockquote %} I presume this happened in Europe and while laws are different there I still get very tired of a “free speech” claim as carte blanche to ridiculue, defame and denounce entities by which you otherwise expect to be serviced. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/law-abiding-citizen/ Sun, 09 Jun 2013 13:25:08 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/law-abiding-citizen/ As civil liberties began a steady state of erosion since the Patriot Act, many other countries have followed suit sacrificing the liberties of their people for an unquantifiable increase in level of safety. It makes me ill to think about. One of the common claims I recurrently hear is: “Law abiding citizens should have nothing to fear.” This argument is so sad and short-sighted. I am a law abiding citizen… today. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/the-myopic-focus-on-it-and-engineering-has-to-stop/ Mon, 27 Aug 2012 11:30:49 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/the-myopic-focus-on-it-and-engineering-has-to-stop/ Business is king. Customers rule. Service is everything. Yet every organization I go into has an engineering group that can’t see outside their bubble. Perhaps they can, but they certainly choose not to. I’m an engineer, I write code. I’ve written approaching 100k lines of C code in my life time, I’ve administered tens of thousands of systems in my career and I’ve help plan some of the largest customer-facing infrastructure ever built. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/creativity-and-execution/ Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:33:41 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/creativity-and-execution/ I’ve built a few successful products and looking back on their success, I think that the mantra that drove product development is what separated our products from the rest of the market: “products built from pain.” All of the products we’ve built were done so to relieve acute pain. Not pain we researched; pain we experienced. We built products and changed the world of software because our lives sucked. Photograph by AlexRK I’ve read a lot of books lately on new ways of running organizations and different methods of motivating people and many of them focus on studies around jobs that require a tremendous amount of creativity or “thought workers. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/peaches-and-pecans/ Wed, 13 Jun 2012 16:21:19 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/peaches-and-pecans/ Peaches and pecans on vanilla ice cream is a wonderful thing, but get some perspective on how you came to enjoy it. I have heard (and have told others), “life is too short to do something you don’t enjoy,” but the truth is there is no way to revel in everything you do at every moment; not even the most ambitious and determined hedonist can achieve this. While I don’t think he was right about everything, I feel confident Sigmund Freud nailed this one: “We are so made, that we can only derive intense enjoyment from a contrast and only very little from a state of things. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/omnios/ Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:04:01 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/omnios/ And this is it … OmniOS. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/the-desktop-and-server-oil-and-water/ Sat, 24 Mar 2012 01:48:20 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/the-desktop-and-server-oil-and-water/ I’ve been using these computer things for a while. I’ve written what is now over 100k lines of production C code and many thousands of lines of code in a variety of other languages. I’ve seen my software run and I’ve run other people software. One thing they all have in common is their propensity to break under unforeseen circumstances. Shit happens. On my laptop, I don’t care much. I want nice, I want convenient, I want new and pretty and productive. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/surge-is-gonna-kick-ass/ Wed, 10 Aug 2011 03:48:22 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/surge-is-gonna-kick-ass/ I haven’t blogged for a while because: I have been travelling insanely. About 80k miles this year so far. Hacking on Circonus and (subsequently) Reconnoiter. Providing strategic and tactical guidance on some mind blowing projects for the truly awesome clientele we have at OmniTI. Speaking at quite a number of conferences. Attempting to participate more in some of the open source projects I can help. … and planning for Surge. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/everyone-is-to-blame-for-this-continued-expectation-that-such-magic-is-possible/ Mon, 25 Apr 2011 00:29:59 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/everyone-is-to-blame-for-this-continued-expectation-that-such-magic-is-possible/ My opinion is that the only reason the big enterprise storage vendors have gotten away with network block storage for the last decade is that they can afford to over-engineer the hell out of them and have the luxury of running enterprise workloads, which is a code phrase for “consolidated idle workloads.” When the going gets tough in enterprise storage systems, you do capacity planning and make sure your hot apps are on dedicated spindles, controllers, and network ports. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/surge-2011-cfp-extension/ Wed, 06 Apr 2011 02:41:11 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/surge-2011-cfp-extension/ The CFPs have been rolling in for Surge 2011; these are exciting times. It does, however, appear that our description of what we’re looking for has produced a different set of submissions that what I expected. I think it might help to better understand what sessions were like last year and, luckily, we’ll be releasing all of the Surge 2010 video footage this week. I apologize for the poor audio quality, we intend to pull in A/V recording professionals this year. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/top-5-software-to-saas-culture-shocks/ Wed, 02 Mar 2011 02:54:54 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/top-5-software-to-saas-culture-shocks/ At OmniTI, I’ve been a part of writing a lot of open source software, my fair share of closed source software. Some of it has been shipped and some of it has been operated as a service. While it is possible (and quite useful) to take what one learns in one scenario and apply it to another, some things simply translate poorly. I do a lot of consulting with traditional software companies that are looking to make a transition to the new world of SaaS. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/using-esper-to-manage-real-time-data/ Fri, 04 Feb 2011 19:01:10 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/using-esper-to-manage-real-time-data/ I’m flying back from a wonderful event: Strata. I gave a talk there called “Esperwhispering” that seemed to pique many people’s interest. This is the stuff you do when a database just doesn’t have the horsepower to answer your questions fast enough. Esper is an excellent, open-source CEP tool. It’s a shame its GPL, but hey… you can’t win ‘em all. We use esper to power many things internally at OmniTI and our clients and Esper is the code CEP engine we use to make sure Circonus custsomers know when “things go wrong. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/ywahusty/ Fri, 04 Feb 2011 15:41:44 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/ywahusty/ Defining the term: I recently used a term and was hit with a lot of out-of-band requests for explanation. It’s a good one and excellent food for thought. ywahusty (yuh-wuh-hus-tee): you will always have users smarter than you. This basic concept is one of sound, pragmatic systems engineering that might appear to fly in the face of traditional product engineering… but doesn’t. In traditional product engineering, there is a goal to produce a product that is both accessible and useful to the largest subset of the predefined audience of the product. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/devilishly-hot-deviled-eggs-w-company/ Sun, 23 Jan 2011 18:32:35 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/devilishly-hot-deviled-eggs-w-company/ I got a copy of “The Sriracha Cookbook: 50 “Rooster Sauce” Recipes that Pack a Punch” last week. First recipe today was just awesome. The egg filling was a little loose, I think I’ll back down the lime juice in the next batch of Sriracha Mayo. Still. Pop! Thumbs up. I have some habanero stuffed olives (which make excellent spicy martini… below). I think I’ll half some of them and use that as garnish. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/why-havent-all-my-graphs-been-useful-like-this/ Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:21:28 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/why-havent-all-my-graphs-been-useful-like-this/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/capacity-planning/ Thu, 06 Jan 2011 00:33:46 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/capacity-planning/ I used to export data into Excel and do linear regressions on it… How I have no need. I am happier person and people like me more.Here’s how we made capacity planning easier for everyone. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/theo-seeks-aspiring-database-administrator/ Tue, 28 Dec 2010 13:20:40 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/theo-seeks-aspiring-database-administrator/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/web-performance-boot-camp/ Tue, 02 Nov 2010 20:33:09 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/web-performance-boot-camp/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/perform-or-die/ Sat, 30 Oct 2010 02:39:50 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/perform-or-die/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/why-json-sucks/ Sun, 10 Oct 2010 13:19:17 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/why-json-sucks/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/whats-your-postgres-searchpath/ Sat, 09 Oct 2010 19:44:32 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/whats-your-postgres-searchpath/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/omnitis-surge-year-one-done-awesome/ Thu, 07 Oct 2010 15:00:00 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/omnitis-surge-year-one-done-awesome/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/software-engineer-cta/ Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:53:54 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/software-engineer-cta/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/remiss-regarding-reading-recommendations/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:26:43 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/remiss-regarding-reading-recommendations/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/designing-for-vendor-malfunctions/ Thu, 19 Aug 2010 02:14:22 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/designing-for-vendor-malfunctions/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/reconnoiter-at-oscon-2010/ Sun, 01 Aug 2010 21:53:58 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/reconnoiter-at-oscon-2010/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/insight-into-the-wild-and-crazy-omniti/ Tue, 20 Jul 2010 05:23:07 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/insight-into-the-wild-and-crazy-omniti/ I recently had the privilege of being interviewed by Josh Ownes over at Webpulp.tvabout all sorts of things. It’s rare that I get time to sit down and think about all the crazy stuff we do at OmniTIlet alone talk about it. Aside from a camera angle that is quite odd and very poor picture quality, the interview is really nice. While I typically don’t watch or listen to my own media events (it’s eerie), in this interview I actually enjoyed listening from start to end because it is a fairly fun list of wild and crazy things we to at OmniTI in unconventional depth. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/operating-at-scale/ Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:37:44 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/operating-at-scale/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/zfs-and-zetaback-win-again/ Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:33:55 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/zfs-and-zetaback-win-again/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/surge-scalability-matters/ Fri, 04 Jun 2010 19:22:37 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/surge-scalability-matters/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/vibram-four-fingers-syndactyly-successful/ Mon, 24 May 2010 01:21:39 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/vibram-four-fingers-syndactyly-successful/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/plan-wagon/ Mon, 10 May 2010 14:54:33 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/plan-wagon/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/pgcontroldata-from-sql/ Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:45:48 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/pgcontroldata-from-sql/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/from-pcap-to-postgres-forensic-performance-analysis/ Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:52:07 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/from-pcap-to-postgres-forensic-performance-analysis/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/pgamqp-slides-from-pgeast2010/ Tue, 30 Mar 2010 04:55:40 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/pgamqp-slides-from-pgeast2010/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/thoughts-on-the-cloud/ Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:10:55 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/thoughts-on-the-cloud/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/managing-risk-by-deploying-incessantly/ Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:07:13 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/managing-risk-by-deploying-incessantly/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/squeezing-precise-numbers-into-fixed-width-types-or-faking-it/ Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:13:56 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/squeezing-precise-numbers-into-fixed-width-types-or-faking-it/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-patriot/ Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:07:15 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-patriot/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/death-by-icicle/ Sat, 13 Feb 2010 02:59:34 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/death-by-icicle/ This fell off the gutter onto the doorstep. Damn lucky no one was standing there. Just ridiculous. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/sexified-fonts-for-the-web/ Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:08:05 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/sexified-fonts-for-the-web/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/asynchronous-postgresql-candy/ Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:49:32 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/asynchronous-postgresql-candy/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/amqp-for-postgresql/ Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:00:27 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/amqp-for-postgresql/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/omniti-seeks-data-management-experts-a-new-type-of-dba/ Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:49:25 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/omniti-seeks-data-management-experts-a-new-type-of-dba/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/jive-turkey/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:26:12 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/jive-turkey/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/itch-scratched-right-between-the-rabbits-ears/ Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:18:32 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/itch-scratched-right-between-the-rabbits-ears/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/extending-and-embedding/ Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:21:48 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/extending-and-embedding/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/highscalabilitycom-talks-about-omnitis-reconnoiter/ Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:13:07 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/highscalabilitycom-talks-about-omnitis-reconnoiter/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/big-bad-postgres-indeed/ Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:45:39 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/big-bad-postgres-indeed/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/painful-reading/ Sun, 19 Jul 2009 01:50:14 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/painful-reading/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/business-chaotics-its-all-i-know/ Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:02:57 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/business-chaotics-its-all-i-know/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/project-management-reading/ Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:29:26 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/project-management-reading/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/make-the-web-a-faster-place-pretty-please/ Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:36:59 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/make-the-web-a-faster-place-pretty-please/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/web-you-can-now-not-suck/ Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:33:33 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/web-you-can-now-not-suck/ In perhaps a new trend, I’m blogging from 39011 feet (or so says the seatback in front of me). I’m traveling back home to the east coast from San Jose, CA where I attended (and spoke) at this year’s O’Reilly Velocity Conference.I participated (and blogged) about the Velocity Summit in which I’ve participated for the past two years. The summit is the unconference preceding the real conference that help the organizers digest current hot topics and better define the conference track for the actual conference. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/what-time-is-it/ Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:28:40 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/what-time-is-it/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/cloud-storage-primer/ Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:41:27 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/cloud-storage-primer/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/reconnoiter-update/ Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:04:34 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/reconnoiter-update/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/oh-god-smf-rocks/ Wed, 27 May 2009 02:34:27 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/oh-god-smf-rocks/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/what-is-professional-services/ Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:14:24 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/what-is-professional-services/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/disk-benchmarking-with-dd-dont/ Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:50:14 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/disk-benchmarking-with-dd-dont/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/nice-writeup-on-zones/ Sun, 12 Apr 2009 14:31:29 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/nice-writeup-on-zones/ My colleague Mark Harrisonat OmniTIwrote a nice little piece on Solaris Containers (Zones)and how we use them (a lot). It’s a short and simple read, good for psuedo-technical people that want to know a but more about Zones. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/robert-spreading-the-wealth-as-usual/ Fri, 03 Apr 2009 02:36:55 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/robert-spreading-the-wealth-as-usual/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/databases-performing-oh-my/ Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:22:35 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/databases-performing-oh-my/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/first-bwosug-meeting/ Wed, 04 Mar 2009 02:47:18 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/first-bwosug-meeting/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/fuck-the-blind/ Sun, 01 Mar 2009 21:08:45 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/fuck-the-blind/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/new-quintessential-library-for-web-engineers/ Wed, 04 Feb 2009 04:08:04 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/new-quintessential-library-for-web-engineers/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/data-explosion-wtf/ Fri, 30 Jan 2009 04:21:51 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/data-explosion-wtf/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/whats-love-got-to-do-with-it/ Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:11:06 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/whats-love-got-to-do-with-it/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/seven-things/ Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:18:12 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/seven-things/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/dtrace-and-apache/ Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:05:20 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/dtrace-and-apache/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/eloquence-in-technical-prose/ Wed, 05 Nov 2008 06:00:15 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/eloquence-in-technical-prose/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/systems-operations-and-fishing/ Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:19:29 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/systems-operations-and-fishing/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/scalability-in-curriculum/ Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:50:44 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/scalability-in-curriculum/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/whirlwind/ Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:48:19 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/whirlwind/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/irony-the-website-is-what/ Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:40:49 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/irony-the-website-is-what/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/zetaback-respect/ Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:02:15 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/zetaback-respect/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/last-second-scaling-hack/ Tue, 16 Sep 2008 04:17:20 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/last-second-scaling-hack/ So, you have an app. You can’t change the code. Now this isn’t the common case when I try to scale things. I usually roll up my sleeves and ignore application stack boundaries. This is a unique case where for political reasons, I can’t touch the app. So.. the app was a tiny little site, then it got popular on facebook and collegehumor and instead of pushing 5-10 megabits, it was falling apart at around 105 megabits due to resource saturation (one box wasn’t enough) and ended up needing to push 200 megabits. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/openssh-and-securid-still-a-good-choice/ Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:01:47 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/openssh-and-securid-still-a-good-choice/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/xmlxslt-and-docbook-for-docs/ Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:01:28 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/xmlxslt-and-docbook-for-docs/ I’ve been writing docs for Reconnoiter. I selected DocBookfor two reasons. First, I hoped that number of polished documents I’ve seen written in DocBook would mean that if this manual grows in size and usefulness we might be able to achieve some polish “on the cheap.” Second, our open-source sitehas a really nice automated systems for auto-publishing project documentation… if it is in DocBook. That said, DocBook is a complete pain in the ass. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/my-favorite-cookbook/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:43:57 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/my-favorite-cookbook/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/sweet-shrimp-goulash/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:11:25 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/sweet-shrimp-goulash/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/varnish-get-your-patch-on/ Mon, 11 Aug 2008 01:50:00 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/varnish-get-your-patch-on/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/bwpug-the-essential-postgresqlconf/ Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:55:44 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/bwpug-the-essential-postgresqlconf/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/oscon2008-presentation/ Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:58:09 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/oscon2008-presentation/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/scalability-and-concessions/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:52:03 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/scalability-and-concessions/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/reconnoiter-and-another-platform/ Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:27:27 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/reconnoiter-and-another-platform/ Reconnoiteris coming along. Unlike most open source project, I tend not to talk about mine until their are really useful to people. Over the last year, I’ve adopted the unhealthy attitude that useful means “shiny front-end.” So, I’m blogging to break that attitude and talk a bit about project that doesn’t have a shiny front-end… yet.Reconnoiter is built out of years of frustration using tools like RRDTOOL, Munin, Cacti, ZenOSS, Nagios, etc. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/dissecting-todays-internet-traffic-spikes/ Tue, 20 May 2008 17:56:59 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/dissecting-todays-internet-traffic-spikes/ Today’s Internet has changed quite a bit from the Internet I used to know. The Internet has always been successful because of net neutrality. What’s net neutrality? It’s complicated, but essentially it means that anyone anywhere can publish with equal rights. These aren’t the kind of rights people usually talk about… I’m not speaking of freedom of speech. Instead, I’m talking about content being simply bits. It doesn’t matter if it comes from CNNor this blog, you as a reader can download the bits that make up the pages you see without bias or preferential treatment. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/bwpug-meetup-reminder/ Wed, 14 May 2008 00:49:56 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/bwpug-meetup-reminder/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/oscon-2008-and-now-for-something-completely-different/ Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:02:28 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/oscon-2008-and-now-for-something-completely-different/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/zfs-respect/ Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:16:32 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/zfs-respect/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/starting-the-baltimorewashington-postgresql-user-group/ Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:49:42 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/starting-the-baltimorewashington-postgresql-user-group/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/probing-for-success/ Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:08:22 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/probing-for-success/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/postgresql-looking-under-the-hood-with-solaris/ Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:21:05 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/postgresql-looking-under-the-hood-with-solaris/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/postgresql-community/ Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:42:08 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/postgresql-community/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/postgresql-conference-east-08-bring-it-yeah/ Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:50:20 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/postgresql-conference-east-08-bring-it-yeah/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/talking-w-sun/ Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:21:55 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/talking-w-sun/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/mysql-all-their-base-are-belong-to-others/ Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:24:18 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/mysql-all-their-base-are-belong-to-others/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/spinetingling-dtrace-euphoria-what-the-scsi/ Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:52:01 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/spinetingling-dtrace-euphoria-what-the-scsi/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/there-is-nothing-quite-like-a-shorn-scrothhhalp/ Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:39:44 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/there-is-nothing-quite-like-a-shorn-scrothhhalp/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/apachecon-us-2007/ Sat, 17 Nov 2007 17:17:30 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/apachecon-us-2007/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/sweat-investment/ Sun, 04 Nov 2007 14:29:07 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/sweat-investment/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/mac-os-x-and-zfs/ Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:49:52 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/mac-os-x-and-zfs/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/zimbra-on-zfs-and-zones/ Tue, 30 Oct 2007 02:13:59 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/zimbra-on-zfs-and-zones/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/we-are-omniti/ Tue, 25 Sep 2007 01:42:03 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/we-are-omniti/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/partitioning-vs-federation-vs-sharding/ Sat, 08 Sep 2007 18:05:36 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/partitioning-vs-federation-vs-sharding/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/sqilzx2120-mad-sqilzx2120/ Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:18:28 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/sqilzx2120-mad-sqilzx2120/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/damn-im-proud-to-be-a-gangsta/ Sat, 07 Jul 2007 00:02:36 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/damn-im-proud-to-be-a-gangsta/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/postgresql-warm-standby-on-zfs-crack/ Tue, 03 Jul 2007 01:06:32 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/postgresql-warm-standby-on-zfs-crack/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/scalability-vs-performance-it-isnt-a-battle/ Thu, 24 May 2007 00:17:23 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/scalability-vs-performance-it-isnt-a-battle/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/tori-has-arrived/ Sat, 19 May 2007 00:58:22 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/tori-has-arrived/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/so-you-want-to-be-a-hero/ Mon, 07 May 2007 20:19:54 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/so-you-want-to-be-a-hero/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/zfs-rules-congratulations-to-freebsd-sun-and-pawel-dawidek/ Fri, 06 Apr 2007 13:29:15 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/zfs-rules-congratulations-to-freebsd-sun-and-pawel-dawidek/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/happiness-reserve-temperature-hrt/ Tue, 20 Mar 2007 05:08:01 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/happiness-reserve-temperature-hrt/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/omniti-labs/ Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:04:28 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/omniti-labs/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/dtraceconf08/ Thu, 15 Mar 2007 01:28:40 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/dtraceconf08/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/and-now-for-something-completely-different/ Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:06:23 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/and-now-for-something-completely-different/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/sunomniti-postgresql-case-study/ Tue, 20 Feb 2007 04:36:45 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/sunomniti-postgresql-case-study/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/debugging-a-memoryexhausting-modperl-app/ Sun, 04 Feb 2007 02:12:07 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/debugging-a-memoryexhausting-modperl-app/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/simply-unacceptable-engineering/ Sat, 13 Jan 2007 02:09:44 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/simply-unacceptable-engineering/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/zfs-sendhhhh-trickle/ Wed, 27 Dec 2006 20:13:04 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/zfs-sendhhhh-trickle/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/benchmarking-lucene/ Mon, 25 Dec 2006 05:01:54 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/benchmarking-lucene/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/theo-seeks-aspiring-systems-administrator/ Tue, 19 Dec 2006 02:57:55 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/theo-seeks-aspiring-systems-administrator/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/choosing-solaris-10-over-linux/ Wed, 29 Nov 2006 03:31:17 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/choosing-solaris-10-over-linux/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/oracle-to-postresql-whered-my-tools-go/ Wed, 01 Nov 2006 14:53:00 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/oracle-to-postresql-whered-my-tools-go/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/postgresql-performance-through-the-eyes-of-dtrace/ Fri, 27 Oct 2006 18:17:18 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/postgresql-performance-through-the-eyes-of-dtrace/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/apachecon/ Wed, 11 Oct 2006 19:03:34 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/apachecon/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/recap/ Thu, 05 Oct 2006 03:23:46 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/recap/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/zfs-and-mixed-results/ Sun, 27 Aug 2006 00:58:45 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/zfs-and-mixed-results/ We’ve had great luck with ZFS on some “largish” systems. I haven’t worked out how to blog about them yet as they contain a lot of client specifics, but I now have ZFS in a happy place of my mind. However, most of the stuff we do doesn’ts go over NFS. So, Eric (who leads out operations group) was tasked to solve some heterogenous home dir issues across a large build cluster we have at the $DAYJOB. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/more-open-positions-at-omniti/ Sat, 12 Aug 2006 17:21:53 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/more-open-positions-at-omniti/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/php-sucks/ Thu, 03 Aug 2006 16:08:22 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/php-sucks/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/omniti-interview/ Thu, 03 Aug 2006 12:43:51 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/omniti-interview/ I was very pleased to read an interviewwith our very own Laura Thomsonon Zend’s DevZone. George and I have tried very very hard to make OmniTIa great place to work – it was one of the many things we wanted to “do right” after working at other companies that just didn’t. I’m really pleased that a recurring theme in the interview is how great it is to work at OmniTI. I always thought I’d be proud of running a successful business (which I am immensely), but I find that I’m even more proud of running one that people like so much as an employer. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/big-bad-postgresql/ Wed, 26 Jul 2006 21:21:36 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/big-bad-postgresql/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/glendalough/ Tue, 04 Jul 2006 15:57:19 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/glendalough/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/apachecon-eu-2006-postdate-last-week/ Mon, 03 Jul 2006 18:57:13 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/apachecon-eu-2006-postdate-last-week/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/apachecon-eu-2006-begins/ Mon, 26 Jun 2006 13:36:14 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/apachecon-eu-2006-begins/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/my-camera-is-back-from-the-shop/ Tue, 23 May 2006 00:23:09 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/my-camera-is-back-from-the-shop/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/why-i-didnt-write-for-wrox/ Wed, 17 May 2006 01:13:07 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/why-i-didnt-write-for-wrox/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/one-more-step-to-world-domination/ Wed, 17 May 2006 00:56:04 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/one-more-step-to-world-domination/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/the-end-has-come/ Thu, 11 May 2006 11:41:07 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/the-end-has-come/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/prophetic-error-messages/ Tue, 09 May 2006 17:50:08 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/prophetic-error-messages/ An interesting SQLite error handed back to me via a web app: https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/compiling-dbdoracle/ Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:54:16 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/compiling-dbdoracle/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/odd-fortune/ Sat, 15 Apr 2006 20:06:07 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/odd-fortune/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/theo-seeks-aspiring-programmer/ Wed, 12 Apr 2006 04:26:15 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/theo-seeks-aspiring-programmer/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/moroccan-tilapia-with-a-hint-of-mexico/ Sun, 02 Apr 2006 16:29:27 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/moroccan-tilapia-with-a-hint-of-mexico/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/lets-reimplement-the-wheel-or-at-least-another-gcs/ Thu, 16 Mar 2006 03:03:50 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/lets-reimplement-the-wheel-or-at-least-another-gcs/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/the-first-umbrella-that-repels-water/ Fri, 17 Feb 2006 01:58:04 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/the-first-umbrella-that-repels-water/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/solaris-10-oops-oops-oops-oops/ Tue, 24 Jan 2006 04:44:04 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/solaris-10-oops-oops-oops-oops/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/clustered-logging/ Mon, 02 Jan 2006 15:11:20 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/clustered-logging/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/postresql-swelling/ Wed, 28 Dec 2005 21:02:00 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/postresql-swelling/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/are-you-smart/ Thu, 24 Nov 2005 03:05:21 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/are-you-smart/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/postgresql-fresh-and-large/ Thu, 24 Nov 2005 02:34:03 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/postgresql-fresh-and-large/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/beware-of-strace/ Tue, 11 Oct 2005 13:16:47 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/beware-of-strace/ So I have this app… And it appears to be misbehaving. I can’t tell quite what it is blocking on (or momemtarily pausing on) as the case may be just by staring at top or its log files. It’s supposed to perform around 300 message submissions per second and appears to be doing like 30. So, where’s the problem? Or more importantly, how do we find the problem? DTrace is the right answer of course, but I’m on Linux and FreeBSD here. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/trying-windows-but-it-hurts/ Thu, 06 Oct 2005 03:05:54 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/trying-windows-but-it-hurts/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/panic-linux-freebsd-and-solaris/ Mon, 19 Sep 2005 00:45:10 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/panic-linux-freebsd-and-solaris/ So a panic is a panic, right? Well yes in that is stops your server dead in its tracks, but the how you deal with it is the important thing. I’ve been frustrated for a long time with Linux and FreeBSD (Linux more so) regarding the lack of good post-mortem crash analysis facilities.Some background might be helpful here. One of the clusters that my company administrates has 10 FreeBSD 5.3, 1 FreeBSD 5. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/ipod-nano/ Wed, 14 Sep 2005 12:26:39 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/ipod-nano/ I just bought an iPod nanofor Lisa. The is, hands-down, the sexiest electronic device I’ve ever seen. It makes my (not so old) iPod 40GB look like an anchor. The thing is just gorgeous. Very few technologies make me show my O-face. For software, it’s dtrace. For hardware, it’s the Apple iPod nano. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/apache-2002-us-slides-a-little-late/ Wed, 07 Sep 2005 12:31:38 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/apache-2002-us-slides-a-little-late/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/perl-leaks/ Fri, 26 Aug 2005 00:47:00 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/perl-leaks/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/lvm2-if-you-cant-grok-snapshots-dont-back-them-up/ Thu, 11 Aug 2005 13:02:40 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/lvm2-if-you-cant-grok-snapshots-dont-back-them-up/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/perl-dynaloader-obscurity/ Wed, 10 Aug 2005 20:02:18 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/perl-dynaloader-obscurity/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/crazy-comcast-port-blocking/ Sun, 07 Aug 2005 15:16:26 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/crazy-comcast-port-blocking/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/off-to-the-cape/ Sat, 06 Aug 2005 01:22:39 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/off-to-the-cape/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/freebsd-54-crashes-wanna-job/ Sat, 06 Aug 2005 00:10:29 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/freebsd-54-crashes-wanna-job/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/oscon-database-replication-slides/ Fri, 05 Aug 2005 14:00:00 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/oscon-database-replication-slides/ It was a pleasure speaking at OSCON2005 on Wednesday on the topic of cross-vendor database replication approaches. Many attendees requested that I put the slides online. While there is a tremendous amount of commentary and critique that goes with the slides, I hope that they will be somewhat useful to a more general audience. Alas, here they are: DB Replication PDFDB Replication Keynote stack https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/dtrace-instrumenting-userspace/ Fri, 05 Aug 2005 02:02:35 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/dtrace-instrumenting-userspace/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/apachecon-2005-scalable-slides/ Fri, 22 Jul 2005 16:00:00 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/apachecon-2005-scalable-slides/ For those that are interested, here is a PDF (print form) copy of my Scalable Internet Architectures talkI gave at ApacheCon 2005 in Stuttgard . https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/whats-missing-from-software-development/ Sun, 03 Jul 2005 13:27:58 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/whats-missing-from-software-development/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/open-solaris-opens-solaris/ Tue, 14 Jun 2005 14:31:23 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/open-solaris-opens-solaris/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/isaexec-and-magical-builds/ Fri, 10 Jun 2005 02:07:29 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/isaexec-and-magical-builds/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/the-spoken-word/ Thu, 09 Jun 2005 19:53:29 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/the-spoken-word/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/apachecon-2004-las-vegas-baby/ Thu, 18 Nov 2004 21:53:24 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/apachecon-2004-las-vegas-baby/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/scalable-internet-architectures/ Sun, 11 Jul 2004 04:03:24 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/scalable-internet-architectures/ I’ve wanted to write a book for a while – mainly because people seemed genuinely interested in the presentations I have given over the past several years at the ApacheCon conferences. While my academic background and most of my project background is in the area of high-availability and resource allocation in clusters (i.e. load-balancing), it seemed that a book on it would either be too high level or too applied. The problem with high level conversation is that you end up boring people to death who are practical and not providing enough hands-on information to those that are engineers. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/starting-a-new-blog/ Fri, 09 Jul 2004 00:56:33 -0400 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/starting-a-new-blog/ In the unlikely event that I can actually focus enough to write in my blog, I have started a new blog with new software. I don’t much like Moveable Type and thought I’d give Serendipity a whirl. It is so hard to separate work from life. Those parts of life that are clearly not work are hard to find time to write about… I hardly have time to live them. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/my-zoe/ Fri, 09 Jul 2004 02:18:06 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/my-zoe/ Occasionally I manage to shoot some good photos with my Sony T1. I love the camera because of its portabliity, but the lack extensive optics make it hard to take spectacular pictures. However, when the lighting is just right… Zoe’s 21 months old now and talking up a storm now – every once in a while we here a structured sentence. She clearly knows what she wants and what she wants to say. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/spam-me-please/ Fri, 09 Jul 2004 01:22:12 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/spam-me-please/ I setup two new email accounts just to see what comes into them:crazyhorse@emailpipeline. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/pulling-pork/ Fri, 02 Jul 2004 01:06:00 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/pulling-pork/ There is something truly American about sitting around a grill, drinking beer for 6 hours while a hug pork butt or shoulder slowly falls apart over low heat. Here’s my recipe… as simple as it is.Get a big (6-8 lbs) pork shoulder.Get a can of Szeged Rib Rub.Coat the shoulder with 3tbs or so of extra virgin olive oil.Rub 1/3 to 2/3 of the can of rib rub into the meat. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/perfectenough-cheapenough-hashing/ Thu, 05 Feb 2004 02:47:00 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/perfectenough-cheapenough-hashing/ So, I was implementing this thing… It seems that all my discussions start like this. Sigh. So, I was implementing this caching systems for file signatures. I needed a hashing algorithm with excellent distribution and low calculation cost. My first assumption was that MD5 didn’t meet my needs due to its computational costs… I was surprised.I found a great exploratory article on hashingthat assisted my search for the perfect[-enough], cheap[-enough] hash. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/mysql-the-best-database-im-afraid-to-use/ Thu, 05 Feb 2004 02:45:00 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/mysql-the-best-database-im-afraid-to-use/ So, there are a lot of databases out there. I’ve used more than a handful. Commercial, Proprietary, Free, Open, etc. The two databases I’ve used most are Oracle and MySQL and let me say that I like them both immensely. However, recently we considered putting database support into a commercial, proprietary application and MySQL concerned and confused me.Recently, SPFv1has been popular – likely due to the recent publication of SPF records by Internet giant AOL. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/zoe-talks-trash/ Sun, 25 Jan 2004 02:44:00 -0400 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/zoe-talks-trash/ https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/apachecon-2003-presentation/ Tue, 18 Nov 2003 02:42:00 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/apachecon-2003-presentation/ Yesterday I presented at ApacheCon 2003 in Las Vegas. My talk on Scalable Internet Architectures was well received, but I have several complaint about the way things were done. There was no planning staff in the room. I had to collect admittance passes myself. I had no microphone. Aside from the LCD projector, it was like teaching in a back alley.Additionally, my presentation materials were not printed for the attendees of the tutorial session. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/my-child-turns-one/ Sat, 11 Oct 2003 01:36:00 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/my-child-turns-one/ So about a year ago, my wife underwent the tremendous trauma of birthing my wonderful daughter Zoe. Many claim there is a beauty in childbirth. Believe me, it is metaphoric. That happiness and wonderment that follow cannot be doubted, but the the process itself is all-in-all barbaric. Never-the-less, Zoe is here and is wonderful. Her impact on my life has been complete and awesome. Her introduction into my life was sudden and over the past year my priorities and all of my personal relationships have changed to a fundamental shift in perspective. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/2006-in-review/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/2006-in-review/ title: “2006 in review” date: 2007-01-09T04:59:00-04:00 type: post categories: review https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/a-bacon-spin-on-sushi-ikura-baciri/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/a-bacon-spin-on-sushi-ikura-baciri/ title: “A bacon spin on sushi: ikura baciri” date: 2011-11-06T13:33:37-04:00 type: post categories: food tags: bacon sushi So, I want sushi. I love sushi. I need sushi. I bought tuna, fake crabmeat, ikura (salmon roe)… I had nori, but it was aged and inseparably stuck together. If there is one rule to live by, it is this: bacon makes everything better. Here’s the plan. Take a shrimp (40-50 count) and put it on a cutting board. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/a-bit-about-me/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/a-bit-about-me/ title: “A Bit About Me” date: 2004-01-01T05:00:00-04:00 type: post https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/a-call-to-humanism/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/a-call-to-humanism/ title: “A Call to Humanism” date: 2016-01-10T12:30:21-04:00 type: post tags: humanism rights religion A letter to my fellow humans, Names can be deceiving. Earlier this year there was a suggestion from some citizens of the United States that preventing Muslims from entering the country would we be a good response to current threats against the American people. It has bothered me so tremendously over the last few months that I’ve felt tormented. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/a-job-a-mission-a-career-all-without-a-path-or-a-name/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/a-job-a-mission-a-career-all-without-a-path-or-a-name/ title: “A job, a mission, a career: all without a path or a name.” date: 2008-01-16T14:39:02-04:00 type: post categories: Damaged Bits tags: operations https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/a-little-wind-damage/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/a-little-wind-damage/ title: “A little wind damage” date: 2003-09-29T01:38:00-04:00 type: post https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/a-look-at-rubyrep/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/a-look-at-rubyrep/ title: “A look at rubyrep” date: 2009-08-20 19:27:12 type: post https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/a-month-later-like-clockwork/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/a-month-later-like-clockwork/ title: “A month later… like clockwork.” date: 2008-12-09 03:40:52 type: post https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/a-new-toy-a-vaio/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/a-new-toy-a-vaio/ title: “A new toy, a VAIO” date: 2005-07-15 01:42:55 type: post https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/a-talk-with-ben-rockwood/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/a-talk-with-ben-rockwood/ title: “A talk with Ben Rockwood” date: 2009-01-03 16:07:31 type: posts categories: Damaged Bits tags: operations https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/a-transformation/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/a-transformation/ title: “A Transformation” date: 2003-11-07 02:34:00 type: post categories: family When I was in high school, I decided I wanted to grow my hair out. That was 10 years ago. Since then, my hair has reached to the middle of my back. My wife, my colleagues, and most of my friends have never seen me with short hair. I love change. I can’t stand a stagnate landscape. I need new business, new projects, new problems and the opportunity for new solutions. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/advice/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/advice/ title: “Advice.” date: 2012-06-03T14:37:09-04:00 type: post categories: Damaged Bits Advice is useful. Advice is guidance on future actions usually given by someone that is considered knowledgable. However, over a global and impersonal network in a one-way communication channel (as the Internet tends to be despite social networks), advice suffers from the consultant’s dilema. The consultant’s dilema is that any advice based on a given situation will not apply cleanly because of the propensity for change due to situation fluidity. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/feb-2009-bwpug-meeting-stephen-frost-column-level-permissions/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/feb-2009-bwpug-meeting-stephen-frost-column-level-permissions/ title: “Feb 2009 BWPUG Meeting: Stephen Frost, Column Level Permissions” date: 2009-01-29 17:42:15 type: post https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/finding-leaks-on-solaris-wo-valgrind/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/finding-leaks-on-solaris-wo-valgrind/ title: “Finding leaks on Solaris (w/o Valgrind)” date: 2010-10-09 20:04:18 categories: Damaged Bits tags: solaris illumos Premise: I write a lot of C code. I run a lot of Solaris. Sadness: One of my favorite tools ever made is Valgrind. Valgrind does not run on Solaris. A lot of the C code I write is event-driven and as such (complicated) it is harder to write code and leaked memory is a common residual of this more complicated coding effort. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/page/about/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/page/about/ Personal I was born in 1978 and was a military brat. My formative primary education took place in Howard County, Maryland. I skipped a few grades and in 1994 I matriculated to The Johns Hopkins University where I started pursuing a dual degree in Electrical Engineering and Physics; neither of which were achieved. In 1997, I received my B.S.E. in Computer Science and entered the Ph.D. program in the Center for Networking and Distributed Systems. https://lethargy.org/~jesus/page/speaking/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://lethargy.org/~jesus/page/speaking/ If you go to conferences, there’s a good chance you might have seen me speak. I am an ACM Distinguished Speaker and have been speaking at conferences far and wide for 15 years. Selected Videos Surge 2011: Closing Plenary SREcon17: Distributed Systems, Like It or Not SREcon17: Monitoring Design Principles Monki Gras 2014: on Leveraging Failures Craftconf: Better Engineer Through Better Discourse Craftconf: Responibly maximizing craftsmanship in software Why I belong to the ACM AppNexus 2013: Building and Shipping a Scalable Product Ricon 2013: How Do You Eat an Elephant?