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It is slightly surreal for me to see somebody posting here with my name and such different perspectives to mine on the topics being discussed. I have to double-take each time I rea…

Since we manage our servers with Puppet, we use hiera-gpg to securely store sensitive information in encrypted form in git. Puppet then safely deploys these files to our servers an…

This looks like a scaled up version of this experiment that has been on youtube for about 5 years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1TMZASCR-I (only 5 metronomes in that one, but I…

Congratulations to the 80/20 folks, and a great acquisition for Square. I had the pleasure of working with Andrew in the past on a couple of projects and he's both a very talented …

I watched the Anthony Griffiths movie he referred to a while ago and it is heartbreaking. I'm normally a very reserved person who's partner is convinced my tear ducts dried up from…

This is exactly the mechanism that pt-online-schema-change from Percona uses. http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-toolkit/2.1/pt-online-sch...

Thanks. I had only installed the JRE. When I installed the JDK it showed up in there for me too.

Does anybody know how to integrate this into OSX so that it is known to the Java Preferences app ? (/Applicatons/Utilities/Java Preferences.app)

Sounds like you should give New Relic a try so :-) Although unfortunately their pro plan is a little more than $25/month

Heh, perhaps some Joyent staff may have something to contribute to this conversation. They offered a "lifetime" hosting deal with shell access a while ago for a one-off fee, and I …

Thanks for the clarifications. And the work :-)

Is there any overlap between the work done in Gizzard and the other popular MySQL forks (Percona, MariaDB, Drizzle) or are each of these solving different (incompatible) problems?

Certainly the UK seems to have taken a giant leap in this direction recently (unless this is a misguided April fool article): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17576745 I think…

Well done and congrats. Glad we nabbed you for a visit to New Zealand before you got lost in work again. Good luck in your new job.

Thanks for the information. Looks like the app needs to support it too, using a custom URL syntax.

Never heard of this until now, so was very interested to see the list of enhancements that they have made to nginx. Some of them look quite useful e.g. the logging enhancements and…

Well, taking a consistent snapshot for backups is easier when it's in a single source. I know there are ways around this (ZFS!) and not everyone needs synced backups to the millise…

Simple reliable replication has been a huge differentiator for a long time; enough so to put up with a lot of the other faults of MySQL. Have not revisited Postgres replication in …

Guilty as charged for immediately assuming that the problems of the MySQL family apply to other databases. Thank you for pointing out that PostgreSQL does not necessarily have all …

Interesting. As you have probably guessed by now, I'm not a Rails developer and therefore did not know this. I was surprised to read about this after your comment and find that Act…

There is another problem unmentioned in this article with his simple table modification example... When you modify a table the DB needs to write the entire table to disk, locking i…

How does this deal with foreign key references? I thought that if you rename a table the FK references from other tables will still point at the renamed table? Discussion here: htt…

re (3): I have used the headless webkit engine to render high quality PDFs from HTML in the past. It's free. See: https://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/

Setting your max clients to 220 on that setup is a terrible idea. You will probably cause the machine to start swapping as there is insufficient memory for each PHP process. It wil…