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I'm mainly excited that you can just deploy a generic tool like Bacalhau across your cluster and have it as a platform to manage your logs and a whole bunch of other workload/manag…

> The author is worried about the overhead of the three-way handshake, but the overhead of setting up TLS is far worse. Oh, "TLS sucks" is a whole separate blog post for another da…

Performance: A bit meh at bulk bytes-per-second snapshotting, particularly when the vault is accessed over ssh, as it's latency sensitive (send block, wait for response, get next b…

I aint'n't dead :-D Largely, Ugarit is ticking along nicely in my production setup, doing backups of my servers; when I get time I work on (a) performance, which is still weak in s…

Oh dear... I once logged into the postgresql database of a very busy hosted service in order to manually reset a user's password. So I started to write the query: UPDATE principals…

A cheap NAS made from a Raspberry Pi model B (the Ethernet one) and an off-the-shelf USB external HDD.

That's a good point - version control and build/release process management are all too often reinvented from scratch after initial painful experiences in the field!

Check out what RainStor does to compress relational data by a factor of 20-40 or so (that's 95%-97.5%): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIsVcaMaAgg&feature=playe...

It's a general question, but the linked article explores it from a few angles of different kinds of career :-) It agrees with your points - a split into applied and theoretical wou…

SOCKS gets you end to end (though it's arguably not "real"!) by letting you have listening sockets (which NAT doesn't). There is indeed a scaling issue with NAT/SOCKS as both need …

Yeah, I'd like easier peer-to-peer communications, too. Which is why I suggested setting up SOCKS as a competitor to NAT, as it lets the client ask the gateway device for an extern…

I've run IPv6, to try it out... I just didn't bother setting it up again next time I replaced things, as it gained me nothing, so I didn't want to repeat the effort. So it's in my …

I've seen the "IPv4 will get more and more expensive, and more and more sites will provide IPv6 connectivity, and (for some unspecified reason) clients will put out the effort to g…

Of course, what I'm proposing here - fixing the problems with NAT as a way of making IPv4 address exhaustion not be a problem for clients - doesn't help with IPv4 exhaustion for se…

I agree... the problem is, how are we to get a single global namespace? I have serious concerns with IPv6's practicality, even with 6in4 et al. Is trying to implement it just flogg…