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Yep. I got in on the RHAT F&F deal thanks to some bug reports and a patch here and there. I made the stupid mistake of allowing coworkers to buy some shares through me but I wasn't…

That's not what I'm saying at all. In fact I was pretty clear about that fact. What I said was that I, personally, am going to be writing more personal tooling in Go. I was pretty …

Graylog2 only handles syslog and its own protocol (GELF) for accepting log events. Graylog2 uses ElasticSearch for data storage. Logstash can use ElasticSearch or just send the dat…

Logstash and Graylog are complimentary. Most people, myself included, we're originally using Graylog2 in conjunction with Logstash. Graylog2, though, had problems with it's origina…

You might underestimate the size of deployments of logstash. Mailchimp runs logstash in a pretty sizeable cluster for all traffic coming into HTTP front-ends. I can think of quite …

Please don't call logstash "an open source splunk". It's no such thing. Splunk still has features that logstash doesn't have (yet). Logstash has quite a few features that Splunk do…

This is why my vpn setup is done via Rackspace. I gave up fighting this backwards ass approach to the problem.

Got a really good shot last night playing outside with the kids: http://yfrog.com/o03xqzsj Not bad for a cellphone camera.

Oh wow. I didn't realize until postrank told me that my post had made it to HN. I'll answer some comments below (and I have another post in the works.

The problem is people are still confusing two issues. 1 - The mass assignment rails issue was resolved as soon as could be after it was reported 2 - The public key form update vuln…

For those who don't know, nats is at the core of cloudfoundry. It's a great tool if you're in an all ruby world. The author wrote messaging software for Tibco before vmware so he k…

We had a discussion about the original blog post over on IRC. I'm not going to tone down my talks (unless it's inappropriate for the audience) but I normally won't include it in a …

Good to see a local gang representing!

TMTOWTDI. Ruby, for all the problems it can cause, gives you. More than one way to solve a problem. Yes, it sometimes makes it harder to dive into other's code but I happen to enjo…

This is a horrible idea. Detecting things like publish date is incredibly difficult. I can totally understand the aversion to wanting to generalize tags but this one is, IMHO, appr…

IMHO, the thing that bothered me about the whole exchange was that it could have been avoided with a little bit of common courtesy. Instead it turned into a "oh let's go roll that …

Feel free to correct me then. I have YET to work anywhere in any industry (financial primarily) that stated we had to have specific hardware up and running as part of an SLA. It's …

You don't need to "understand" why someone would use Android anymore than I need to understand why someone uses iOS. But if it helps you sleep at night, I simply dislike iOS. I dis…

Rollbacks are a myth. You can never rollback. Always be rolling forward. Enabling a culture and environment that allows for small frequent changes solves that problem. The way to n…

Triviality has nothing to do with it. Nothing in your SLA says you have to have servers 1, 2 and 3 available. It says you have to have service X available. You can do that with out…

There is a better way. It's to stop deleting and start deprecating. Write your code in a backwards compatible way. If your storage engine, whatever it is, can't handle it then swit…

It's not so much what I consider to be missing as what others don't seem to be finding in them that encourages them to bolt on functionality into "incompatible" tools: http://blog.…

A little while ago is a bit of a stretch. BOTH communities have moved far and beyond the state of things in that article. The fact of the matter is that X vs. Y is ENTIRELY subject…

CFEngine is the "granddaddy" of configuration management. It's been around something like 17 years at this point. CFEngine spawned Puppet spawned Chef (rougly speaking) I never got…

The correct answer to this entire question is "yes". Use whichever tool encourages you to adopt proper configuration management. Yes, there's a gap that the current crop of CM tool…