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If I'm reading this proposal correctly, locks will still be needed within multithreaded guilds to guard mutations against complex object graphs. Here's my reasoning. Since the GVL …

I can answer only some of these questions. :) Why not upgrade Xen? We run on cloud VMs, so we aren't in control of the version of Xen that's being used. Patch the kernel? Honestly,…

It was indeed. We poked at this issue off and on for several months by multiple engineers before figuring it out.

Nice. We'll be doing the same shortly. How many nodes did you deploy? Are they within a single DC or cross WAN? Do your clients write to all nodes, or just one? Basically, how much…

heh, well, that's a bit harder /c most of our team is remote, but you're right. John, you get a cookie on Friday!

Nice work John! My favorite feature is seeing a graph of historical run time. Really helpful to figure out how a job is doing performance wise.

We've been using Puppet to manage our servers for some time now. As a group of developers doing our own operations work, we've found puppet both good and bad. Setting up puppet was…

I work at Signal with John. I hadn't heard of GeoCouch before, so thanks for the tip. The service that uses Mongo isn't core to our application, so we're probably unlikely to chang…

We integrated PagerDuty with scoutapp.com and pingdom.com. Works great.

It's visually improved, but functionally, it's not much better and in some ways, worse. Besides the lack of mobile support, looking at train schedules is not more difficult. My pre…

Awesome. This is so much better than Metra's own site. A nice addition would be cross reference their service updates for any delay information.