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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 22 posts.
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FreeBSD/EC2 lives
There are some caveats to this. First, at the moment only FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT can run under EC2; I haven't merged bug fixes back to the stable branches. Second, at the moment FreeBSD only runs on t1.micro instances, for reasons I can't discuss (NDA) but hope will be resolved soon. Third, this code hasn't received very…
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Why we’re really happy with AppEngine (and not going anywhere else)
There’s been a handful of articles critical of Google’s AppEngine that have bubbled up to the top of Hacker News lately. I’d like to throw our story into the ring as well, but as a story of a happy customer rather than a switcher.
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The Incredible Power of the Amazon EC2 Cluster GPU Instances
Today Amazon Web Services takes another step on the continuous innovation path by announcing a new Amazon EC2 instance type: The Cluster GPU Instance. Based on the Cluster Compute instance type, the Cluster GPU instance adds two NVIDIA Telsa M2050 GPUs offering GPU-based computational power of over one TeraFLOPS per…
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Review: $99 TonidoPlug Linux Home Server, NAS
Have you ever wanted to get more out of your home network, like adding a NAS, without ponying up for expensive hard drives with Ethernet built-in, Time Capsules, Drobos or the like? While some newer routers come with a USB port allowing users to add a hard drive or printer on the network, they are c
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Your Version Control and Build Systems Don't Scale
Let's spend a minute and talk about the performance of a tool you use every day: your build system. For this purpose, they're all the same, so let's assume you use GNU Make. For a no-op build, what is Make's running time? You know, that O(N) stuff.
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Securing your ssh server
A social nerd writing about everything
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Continuous Integration
Every developer integrates their work into mainline at least every day.