A few weeks ago I blogged about my TODO / Reminder project called gwtf, I’ve done a lot since then and thought I’ll give a quick progress update. Generally I am very glad I started this process, I am actually continuing to use it today which is probably the longest I’ve ever used any TODO [...]
Since shutting down my business I now run a small 25 node network with no Puppet Masters and I do not schedule regular Puppet runs – I run them just when needed. Till now I’ve just done puppet runs via MCollective, basically I’d edit some puppet files and after comitting them just send off a [...]
I’ve wanted to play with the GLI gem from Dave Copeland for a while after seeing his presentation on writing CLI tools in Ruby – he also has a book due on the subject that I’m quite keen to get. I hate all task trackers, todo lists and everything like it, I’ve spent lots of [...]
I spent an alarming amount of time yesterday attempting to make the most of Apache’s ridiculously easy mod_auth_kerb module for SSO Kerberos authentication with a little in-house Sinatra app I’ve been working on. Apparently Kerberos within nginx or rub…
Earlier this week I wrote about Oldskool which is a Gem extendable search tool. Today I want to show how to create a plugin for it to query some custom source. We’ll build a plugin that shows Puppet Type references, you can see how it will look in the image, click for a larger version. [...]
Back in the day The Well had a text based conference system, you used dial in, then telnet and later ssh to their server and interacted with other members through a text system called PicoSpan. Eventually things moved to the web and it became a lot more forum like. The thing that I really loved [...]
This is a post in a series of about Middleware for Stomp users, please read the preceding parts starting at 1 before continuing below. Today changing things around a bit and not so much talking about using Stomp from Ruby but rather how we would monitor ActiveMQ. The ActiveMQ broker has a statistics plugin that [...]
This is an ongoing post in a series of posts about Middlware for Stomp users, please read parts 1, 2 and 3 of this series first before continuing below. Back in Part 2 we wrote a little system to ship metrics from nodes into Graphite via Stomp. This solved the goals of the problem then [...]
Yesterday I showed a detailed example of a Asynchronous system using MOM. Please read part 1 and part 2 of this series first before continuing below. The system shown yesterday was Asynchronous since there is no coupling, no conversation or time constraints. The Producer does not know or care what happens to the messages once [...]
Yesterday I gave a quick intro to the basics of Message Orientated Middleware, today we’ll build something kewl and useful. Graphite is a fantastic statistics as a service for your network package. It can store, graph, slice and dice your time series data in ways that was only imaginable in the dark days of just [...]
