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Inside Twitter Operations with John Adams
Posted On: June 12, 2010
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The Velocity Web Performance and Operations Conference is upon us in about one week. John Adams of Twitter operations spoke a bit about configuration management, ...

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Evaluating Software Support Performance and Quality
Posted On: December 23, 2009
Posted In: Operations
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By Matthew Sacks One aspect often overlooked when purchasing an enterprise software product is: How does a vendor’s support channel perform.  This is a critical aspect ...

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Q&A: How and Why Oracle is Utilizing Virtualization and Open Source
Posted On: February 25, 2009
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Wim Coekaerts, Vice President Linux Engineering at Oracle, reveals what Oracle is doing with open source technology, their position on open source development, and how ...

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Amazon CloudFront and S3 Performance Reviewed on The Bitsource
Posted On: January 28, 2009
Posted In: Operations
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This article is an independent study of the performance of Amazon CloudFront and S3. There is another article on how Amazon CloudFront and S3 are ...

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How to Get Started with Amazon CloudFront and Amazon S3
Posted On: January 11, 2009
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How to Get Started with Amazon CloudFront and Amazon S3 By Matthew Sacks S3 and CloudFront Amazon S3 is Amazon’s Cloud Computing Storage Service. It allows for storing ...

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An Introduction to Java/J2EE System Administration with JBoss
Posted On: November 14, 2008
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While at LISA, I gave a small short talk at a bird-of-a-feather (BoF) session about Java/J2EE system administration. I wanted to give system administrators who ...

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Rackspace’s Mosso Hosting Cloud Review
Posted On: September 23, 2008
Posted In: Operations
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Rackspace's Mosso Hosting Cloud Review Mosso is Rackspace’s (NYSE: RAX) hosting cloud which is a cloud computing platform for hosting websites and web applications. I tested ...

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Monitoring Disk I/O, CPU Usage, Memory Usage, and Swap with vmstat on Unix and Linux
Posted On: September 11, 2008
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vmstat is a very useful command found on Linux and other Unix distributions that allows for real-time monitoring of most health vitals. Explained here is ...

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SAGE Blog: Open Source Enterprise Monitoring Review: Part 3, Hyperic
Posted On: September 7, 2008
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This is the third review in a 3-part series for the SAGE (Special Interest Group of the USENIX Association) blog on open source enterprise monitoring ...

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Xen Virtualization: The Foundstone of Cloud Computing
Posted On: September 4, 2008
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As the cloud computing boom continues to reverberate through the technology ultraverse, it seems as if there is more and more mention of Xen as ...

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Graphing Various Devices with Custom SNMP MIB’s and MRTG
Posted On: September 2, 2008
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Often times, a sytems administrator will want to trend data available to them via SNMP with a utility such as MRTG or Cacti. Although creating ...

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Splunk for Managing Log FIles
Posted On: August 26, 2008
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This article was originally published in the March 2007 Issue of Sys Admin Magazine. It describes how to manage log files with Splunk, a log file ...

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Linux Kernel Tuning for Virtual Guests
Posted On: August 20, 2008
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In VMware ESX server 3.0, Virtual machine performance can severely degrade when deploying a large number of virtual machines to a single ESX server. To ...

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How is the Linux Load Average Calculated and Interpreted?
Posted On: August 8, 2008
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How is the load average to be interpreted? The average number of processes in the run queue calculates the Load Average over some period of time ...

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Extending SNMP
Posted On: August 8, 2008
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Often times, an administrator wants to extend the capabilities of the standard net-snmp installation. The UCD-SNMP MIB offers a wide variety of system performance metrics ...

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