DevOps
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High Availability for Web applications
As more mission critical applications move to the cloud, making the application highly available becomes super critical. An application not…
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Observations on Dev / Ops culture
I am and always will be a student of leadership & design. I like to see things work, but I…
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Ubuntu: Installing Apache Portable Runtime (APR) for Tomcat
After reading “Introducing Apache Tomcat 6? presentation by Mladen Turk I decided to enable Apache Portable Runtime (APR) native library…
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Closed loops: the secret to collecting configuration management data
In my last post, How NOT to collect configuration management data, I gave a quick rundown of some losing CM…
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Devops: How NOT to collect configuration management data
Hi all, Willie here. This time we’re going to step away from the keyboard and get architectural. But no ivory…
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Devops has made Release and Deployment Cool
Back 10 years or so when Extreme Programming came out, it began to change the way that programmers thought about…
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GlassFish Response GZIP Compression in Production
A lot has been written about this and this basically should be common knowledge, but talking to different people out…
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Getting to know the ‘hosts’ file
We had a lecture on DNS today in class and I thought I’d write something about the built-in domain name…
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How to solve production problems
At my job, I’m finding that a large percentage of the questions that come to my desk are “Hey this…
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