John Adams’ views on emerging technologies, software engineering, and various hacks
Recently I had a need to log into a machine with no cdrom and I decided to use Damn Small Linux to get enough of a shell to access the machine. It’s a very small, 50MB distribution of linux that is not that easy to install if you don’t have a linux box to start [...]
Last Tuesday, I was part of the Velocity 2009 Keynote, where I gave a talk entitled, “Fixing Twitter”. I covered the last year or so of work in improving Twitter to deal with the massive traffic and user loads we’ve been under and how we use metrics to destroy the fail-whale. Details of the talk [...]
I’m releasing my apache module which has been extremely helpful to me in performance tracking, and large site analysis. mod_telemetry keeps track of all URLs on your site and how long it takes your server to deliver each request. It reports these by using a status handler (like Apache’s /server-status) to display real-time status information [...]
If you’re responsible for DNS at your organization, I urge you to immediately download updates for your DNS servers and patch them, today. Dan Kaminsky and other members of the DNS community announce that they are releasing patches for an extremely serious cache resolver issue impacting many vendors of DNS software, including ISC BIND and [...]
I made it to Velocity around lunch as I was dealing with work business, but so far it’s been pretty decent. Thanks to Jesse Robbins for the invite to speak this evening at Ignite, and for access to the conference. The day opened (for me, at least) with the Measuring Performance presentation. The general takeaway [...]
