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Softlayer Cloud: An operations guy's rant about really bad service
Disclaimer: the information in this post is the author’s personal opinion and is not the opinion or policy of his employer. It was spring 2010 when we decided that even though Softlayer‘s server provisioning system is really great and it takes only a few hours to get a new server when we need it, it […]
How SmugMug survived the Amazonpocalypse
tl;dr: Amazon had a major outage last week, which took down some popular websites. Despite using a lot of Amazon services, SmugMug didn’t go down because we spread across availability zones a…
How Google's build system works
This is the second in a four part series describing how we use the cloud to scale building and testing of software at Google. This series el...
Stack Exchange’s Architecture in Bullet Points
I thought as a break form the normal prose some of our readers might enjoy a short overview of the Stack Exchange Network (including Stack Overflow, Server Fault, and Super User) from a technical view:
Azul launches pauseless gc jvm for unmodified linux
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Setup a complete Django server, deploy, rollback – all in one powerful script.
This will create the neccesary directories, install nginx and gunicorn under supervisord control and upload new configuration files made from templates on all the app-servers. Additionally it deploys the newest codebase from your local git branch.
The Backblaze Blog
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Etsy Engineering
If Engineering at Etsy has a religion, it's the Church of Graphs. If it moves, we track it. Sometimes we'll draw a graph of something...
FreeBSD on EC2 status
For lists of FreeBSD AMI IDs, please consult the appropriate FreeBSD release announcement; you can also launch FreeBSD through the AWS Marketplace .