In this talk, we examine the failures of modern airline operations – from United Airlines flight 173 in 1978, to Air France flight 447 in 2009 and First Air flight 6560 in 2011 – and how the NTSB investigation and aftermath has dramatically improved flight safety. We take those lessons learned in disaster recovery and … Read More
We recently replaced a proprietary API management solution with an in-house implementation built with nginx and Lua that is more robust, higher performance, and has greater visibility. Learn about our development process and the overall architecture that allowed us to write high-level code while enjoying native code performance, and how we leveraged other open source tools like Vagrant, Ansible, and OpenStack to build an automation-rich delivery pipeline. We will also take an in-depth look at our capacity management approach that differs from the rate limiting concept prevalent in the API community.
We recently replaced a proprietary API management solution with an in-house implementation built with nginx and Lua that is more robust, higher performance, and has greater visibility. Learn about our development process and the overall architecture that allowed us to write high-level code while enjoying native code performance, and how we leveraged other open source tools like Vagrant, Ansible, and OpenStack to build an automation-rich delivery pipeline. We will also take an in-depth look at our capacity management approach that differs from the rate limiting concept prevalent in the API community.
Nagios, the popular open source system and networking monitoring service, is awesome. It gives you so much flexibility that expensive commercial software like Solarwinds and Spiceworks just doesn’t have. However after I moved my infrastructure to Chef, Nagios was constantly giving me issues. The configuration scheme just doesn’t fit well in an autonomous environment. In this blog article I review how I found a replacement for Nagios,
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In the last year Docker has taken the DevOps world by storm. Eric will tell you what Docker. is, how it works, and how to add it to your development toolbox
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Philly Emerging Technologies Podcast 2011 – #2 Doing the Mundane a Million Times a Minute Speaker – Mark Chadwick, Invite Media/Google From the ETE Session Abstract When dealing with high-volume distributed systems, even the most mundane tasks can be daunting challenges. This talk describes some of the steps, as well as missteps, made while building … Read More
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We continue our interview with Eric Shamow of Puppet Labs. Show notes to follow soon, please refer to information from TechCast Episode 65 for now. Puppet Labs can be found at www.puppetlabs.com, and they are hosting PuppetConf, a conference on the west coast that is not only about Puppet. A word from our sponsor, Chariot Solutions: … Read More
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My discussion this week is with Eric Shamow of Puppet Labs. He’ll be presenting at our upcoming DevOps Seminar on October 18th. We took a little time to discuss DevOps in general, and Puppet in some specifics. Part two will be a deeper dive into Puppet itself. Look for that podcast in early September. Resouces, … Read More