Background Atomic Object is opening an office in Detroit. As part of the preparation for this new venture, I have been looking at ways to simplify remote pairing. I was happy to find out about a new project called wemux. Wemux is a script that simplifies the management of shared tmux sessions. Wemux seeks to…
Configuration management or “infrastructure as code” can provide a common language for application developers and operations specialists alike to describe the infrastructure requirements of an application. By capturing these requirements in code, bootstrapping becomes a repeatable process, and insights from operations teams supporting the application in a production environment can be fed back to the…
Tmux has been getting a lot of attention lately. As George Nachman works toward a deeper integration of iTerm2 with tmux, more people are becoming aware of the ‘other’ terminal multiplexer. Around the office, people have been asking how I use tmux. While I’m also an avid iTerm2 user, I’m not sure if the new…
Justin Kulesza and I have been using Puppet to manage the configuration of some virtualized servers. Recently, we added some modules that introduced unexpected dependency cycles. As we worked to untangle the complex series of dependencies, it became difficult to keep track of just how everything was connected. In order to make sense of the…
A while ago @ripienaar and I had a chat
in a pub about monitoring, event systems and lots of related subjects. As
we all know he’s way more productive than is fair and so while he’s been
doing a BUNDLE of work with on subjects like monitoring framewo…
I’ve been doing a little tinkering with pre/post release checklists and
compliance reporting using cucumber and some Nagios wrapping (among
other things) in my test lab and recently needed to do some higher level
entire environment checks before movin…
There is an interesting new JavaScript tool circulating today – DOM Monster. DOM Monster is our answer to JavaScript performance tools that just don’t give you the full picture. DOM Monster is a cross-platform, cross-browser bookmarklet that will analyze the DOM & other features of the page you’re on, and give you its bill of [...]
Cronjobs are one of those necessary evils of any decent sized Unix setup,
they provide often essential pieces of a sites data flows but are often
treated as second class citizens. While I’ve already mentioned my Cron
commandments I’m always looking fo…
Cronjobs are one of those necessary evils of any decent sized Unix setup,
they provide often essential pieces of a sites data flows but are often
treated as second class citizens. While I’ve already mentioned my Cron
commandments I’m always looking fo…
The last time we interviewed for Java developers (a couple of jobs
ago) it came as quite a surprise at how few of them could function
without their IDE of choice. A high percentage of the candidates
struggled to compile using javac, had problems navig…
