System Administration, Software Engineering, Web Application Development

The Ultra Fast Web with Varnish Web Accelerator

By Per Buer, CEO of Varnish Software Varnish is an open source web accelerator created by Varnish Software, in Norway. Varnish accelerates your site by sitting in front of your web server, typically Apache, caching the content. It will keep the most recent requested pages in memory and serves them from memory, producing high performance responses on a Web site, both ... Read More...

How to Install Debian Linux on an Embedded System (PPC440EPx)

By Melissa Soriano, Engineer, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory In this article, I will describe how to bring up Debian Linux on an Embedded System.  The hardware chosen for the embedded system is a PowerPC 440EPxX. I have chosen Debian for the operating system of choice to load on the embedded hardware because of my prior experience with it and because it ... Read More...

Rich Sharples of Red Hat on Java Enterprise Edition 6 (Java EE 6)

Rich Sharples, Director of Product Management for Applications Platforms and Developer Tools at Red Hat, spoke with TheBitsource.com about the recent updates in Java Enterprise Edition Six, and a look into upcoming technologies in the Java platform. Java EE 6 includes some new features such as managed beans, contexts and dependency injection, bean validation, JavaServerFaces 2.0, and the Web Profile. Rich has ... Read More...

SCALE 8x: Pete Kronowitt: Killing Moblin

By Ryan Compton "We basically just killed Moblin" -Pete Kronowitt Last week in Barcelona it was announced that Nokia and Intel will merge the better parts of Maemo and Moblin into a new product aimed at creating a unified framework for mobile device development, MeeGo. Today at SCALE 8x I spoke with Intel's Pete Kronowitt about the project and what it means ... Read More...

PyCon 2010: Event Report

PyCon 2010: Event-Wrap Up PyCon 2010 was the largest PyCon to date, at over 1000 attendees, and had the the largest percentage of women in attendance in years past, at about 10%. This year's PyCon presented many different interesting topics and concepts in Python development such as the core system, (which focuses more on compiler/interpreter design), testing, and Web application development. ... Read More...

LARubyConf 2010: A Ruby In The Sun

By Ron Evans (@deadprogram) of deadprogrammersociety.com It was a beautiful sunny day here in Los Angeles, and I had spring already in my step, because I was headed to LARubyConf 2010. It was almost time for the main event, and there was lots of good stuff in store. The proceedings began with some brief introductions from the hardest working man in ... Read More...

SCALE 8x: Xen in Antarctica, An Interview with Stephen Spector

By Ryan Compton I had the chance to speak with Stephen Spector of Xen.org about his work on this exciting virtualization project. We spoke about the basics of Xen, Xen development, and Xen in Antarctica, which is one of the goals for the Xen Around the World project. What does Xen do? Xen is a collaboration between industry giants, universities, and hobbyists to ... Read More...

Mark Shuttleworth at PyCon: Cadence, Quality and Design

Mark Shuttleworth, Founder of Canonical (maker of the Ubuntu Linux Distribution) spoke with me at the PyCon 2010 Python conference in Atlanta, GA. We discussed Python, PyCon, and also about effective software design and development. More Information about Shuttleworth's keynote: http://us.pycon.org/2010/conference/schedule/event/122/ Read More...

SCALE 8x: An Interview with Ilan Rabinovitch, Conference Chair, Southern California Linux Expo

The 8th Annual Southern California Linux Expo in Los Angeles, CA occurs this weekend February 19-21. I interviewed Ilan Rabinovitch, the conference chair and one of the co-founders about the conference about how SCALE came about, and the community response that has turned it into a key player in open source conferences. Q: What year did SCALE begin? Ilan Rabinovitch: SCALE started in ... Read More...

SCALE 8x: Eric Hammond on Deploying Linux on EC2

Eric Hammond is an expert in the practical aspects of running Ubuntu on Amazon EC2. I recently did a guest post on the Southern California Linux Expo with Eric Hammond on running Linux on EC2, and his upcoming try-it lab on the SCALE blog. Read the full article here: http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale8x/blog/eric-hammond-deploying-linux-ec2. More Resources Follow Eric on Twitter: http://twitter.com/esh Eric's EC2 technical blog: http://alestic.com/ Photo Credit: Lisa ... Read More...