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I tried building FreeBSD AMIs for the 32-bit EC2 instance types the same way as I did the 64-bit instances — by defenestrating Windows AMIs — but there was a catch: They wouldn't boot. In fact, when I tried this six months ago, they not only didn't boot, but they didn't even produce any console output to help me…
I always smile when I hear a web performance speaker say this. I forget who said it first, but I’ve heard it numerous times at conferences and meetups over the past few years. It’s true! Caching is critical for making web pages faster. I’ve written extensively about caching:
Last summer, Heroku became a polyglot platform, with official support for Ruby, Node.js, Clojure, Java, Python, and Scala. Building a platform that works..
While most of VPS providers are trying hard to stay in the business with their sub $5 VPS plans, OVH which is the worlds biggest consumer data center located in France is now ( uh for sometime ) offering $15 a month dedicated servers. While OVH has data center in Canada, this cheap offering is only available in their…
From: FreeBSD Security Officer < security-officer@FreeBSD.org > To: FreeBSD Security < FreeBSD-security@FreeBSD.org > Bcc: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org , freebsd-security-notifications@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: secteam@FreeBSD.org Subject: Security Incident on FreeBSD Infrastructure
Nearly three years ago to the day, from a set of green, worn couches in a modest office Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Riak team announced Riak to the world. To say we've come a long way from that first release would be an understatement, and today we’re pleased to announce the release and general a
ZFS keeps winning over btrfs on many fronts. Here's a short list that explains exactly how.
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Overview We've been working with, building, and evangelizing message queues for the last year, and it's no secret that we think they're awesome. We
(Edit 3/16/2012: I am surprised that this post is picked up by a lot of media outlets. Given the strong interest, I want to emphasize what is measured and what is derived. The # of server racks in …
I’m not leery of Google shuttering its Gmail service, but I can imagine a scenario where they cut off my access to Gmail and I have no way to plead my case to the search behemoth. So I went looking …
