Reconnoiter: Large scale trending and fault detectionView more presentations from postwait. Several people have asked me to post my OSCON Reconnoiter slides. Honestly, I was reticent at first because the presentation was packed full with oral content not in the slides and it had nice screencasts that end up turning into a crazy-large online movie. Suffice it to say, you need to attend to get real info out of it.
I recently had the privilege of being interviewed by Josh Ownes over at Webpulp.tv about all sorts of things. It’s rare that I get time to sit down and think about all the crazy stuff we do at OmniTI let 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.
As requested, here is my slide stack bereft of wit and cynicism:
Velocity 2010: Scalable Internet ArchitecturesView more presentations from postwait. I just finished my presentation at this year's Velocity Conference. Thank you all for the warm reception and the positive feedback. This year's conference is going to be awesome. If you didn't make it this year make sure you sign up early next year; Velocity is not an event to be missed.
Now that it’s all set up, I gotta say, I think zetaback is the best thing since sliced bread for backing up big file servers.
We have an OpenSolaris file server with about 3TB of data, mostly in home directories. Â The kind of work my users do means that a lot of this data is in millions of small files. Â A full backup via rsync took a week; even a mostly empty incremental would take several hours due to rsync having to walk the tree and stat all those files.
I've been attending conference in the "Internet space" regularly for about 12 years. I have enjoyed conferences about web technologies, open source, and programming languages technologies. Many, though not all, of the conferences I've enjoyed have been put on by O'Reilly — they put on some good shows.
Over the last two years I have immensely enjoyed my involvement with the Velocity conference. It is, in my opinion, the de facto conference on web performance and operations.
These are vibram five fingers:
However, I have syndactyly affecting both of my feet.
I love the idea of having my toes separated which is why I prefer barefoot so much more than shoes. Vibram five fingers have always appealed to me. However, I cannot wear them. I wrote Vibram and asked for a pair of shoes to cut up and make acceptable for all the people with toes like mine, but they seemed completely uninterested.
What does it mean to architect a system? It means you solve problems.
While that might seem simple, I am absolutely dumbfounded by the number of people that attempt to solve their problem by simply applying the solution to someone else's problem without any sort of reasonable thought process.
Let me tell you all about "Plan Wagon."
Bob's a great parent. In fact most people that know Bob are extremely impressed by Bob's parenting skills.
