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Continuous Deployment at IMVU: Doing the impossible fifty times a day.
I recently wrote a post on Continuous Deployment : deploying code changes to production as rapidly as possible. The response on news.ycombinator was, well…
Why I Won't Use Rimuhosting
I originally got a VPS at Rimuhosting because their website lauded their “fanatical service” and a friend had concurred. In September 2006, I ordered my first server.
Let's Stop Talking About "Backups"
Is your desktop backed up? Did you backup that server? Are your backups on a different machine? Do you have offsite backups? All good questions, all best practices. But let’s stop talking about “ba…
High Performance at Massive Scale: Lessons Learned at Facebook
Recently, we were fortunate to host Jeff Rothschild, the Vice President of Technology at Facebook, for a visit for the CNS lecture series. Jeff’s talk, “High Performance at Massive Sca…
Using /usr/local
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Datacenter Security: A Cautionary Tale from Last.fm
Last.fm has presence in three datacenters in the London area - this is currently more because of necessity than redundancy; datacenter space is at a real premium in the UK and we can’t fulfill our power growth needs at just one site. We operate our own 20 gigabit fibre ring between these, which means we can basically…
Use rsync to deploy your website
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Media Temple Hacked
I don’t normally do negative posts about another person or company, but I feel this needs to get out there. A few hours ago I received an email from MediaTemple , where I host several of my clients. It was an automated message informing me that:
Why Continuous Deployment?
Of all the tactics I have advocated as part of the lean startup , none has provoked as many extreme reactions as continuous deployment , a p...
How to run a Linux based home web server
Sometimes you need complete control over the server, and don't want to pay $20 to $40 a month for a VPS. In this article, I'll describe step by step how to set up a home web server using Ubuntu, capable of handling modest spikes in traffic.
Iostat -x
My favorite Linux tool in DB work is ‘iostat -x’ (and I really really want to see whenever I’m doing any kind of performance analysis), yet I had to learn its limitations and prop…
How to Back Up Gmail In Linux
I really like Gmail, but I also like having backups of my data just in case. Here’s how to use a simple program called getmail on Unix to backup your Gmail or Google Apps email. We’ll b…