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slony offers some compelling advantages over streaming replication - even on new databases we setup, we still like slony for several reasons: * Version upgrades (streaming replicat…

Hardware or software? There's some hacks with TPROXY/HAproxy I've seen that would do the transparent proxy but the setup seems like more trouble than it's worth.

One downside of this approach (without some funky iptables/networking-fu) is that you loose the source IP from the original request. Adding headers like X-Forwarded-For only works …

Great points. We've actually deployed additional caching on the frontend, and Varnish should be appearing on future slides.

One big advantage of rsyslog over syslog-ng is that you can spool messages to disk if the remote syslog server is down (syslog-ng only offers this in their 'enterprise' paid versio…

One option you have is to look at portfolio companies for the major VC's to see if they are looking for developers and are tackling problems that are interesting to you. Some examp…

I feel your pain. Recently, I also graduated from college with a startup side project that just acquired its first customer. The last twelve months I've spent alot of time asking e…