Ideas, releases, practical guides, and perspectives from the people building with MySQL.
Topics for this podcast:
*Cloud M&A potential around OpenStack
*Oracle’s commercial extensions for MySQL
*Puppet Labs rolls out Enterprise 2.0, hosts PuppetConf
*Basho bolsters Riak distributed data store in NoSQL race
*Our latest special CAOS report, ‘The Changing Linux Landscape’
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It’s been some time now that we’ve been talking about devops, the pushing together of application development and application deployment via IT operations, in the enterprise. To keep up to speed on the trend, 451 CAOS attended PuppetConf, a conference for the Puppet Labs community of IT administrators, developers and industry leaders around the open source Puppet server configuration and automation software. One thing that seems clear, given the talk about agile development and operations, cloud computing, business and culture, our definition of devops continues to be accurate.
Another consistent part of devops that also emerged at PuppetConf last week was the way it tends to introduce additional stakeholders beyond software developers and IT …
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I often run my ops like I take care of data; a bit overzealously.
Case in point, when setting up a new database, I like to throw on
a metric for database size, which gets turned into both a graph
for trending, but also an alert on database size. Everyone is
always on board with trending database size in a graph, but the
alert is one people tend to question. This is not entirely
without justification.
On a new database, with no data or activity, deciding when to
alert is pretty fuzzy. When we set up a new client within our
managed hosting service, I usually just toss up an
arbitrary number, like 2GB or something. The idea isn't that a
2GB database is a problem, it's that when we cross 2GB, we should
probably take a look at the trending graph and do a projection.
Depending on how things look, we'll bump up the threshold on the
alert to a new …
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I find myself flying to New York on Monday for some dealnews related business. Anytime I travel I try and find something fun to do at night. (Watching a movie by myself in Provo, Utah was kinda not that fun.) So, this week I asked on Twitter if anything was happening while I would be in town. Anything would do. A meetup of PHP/MySQL users or some design/css/js related stuff for example. Pretty much anything interesting. Well, later that day I received an IM from the brilliant John Allspaw, Senior VP of Technical Operations at Etsy. He wanted me to swing by the Etsy offices and say hi. Turns out it is only a block away from where I would be. Awesome! He also mentioned that he would like to have me come and speak at their offices some time. That would be neat too. I will have to plan better …
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I was testing some MySQL puppet modules on my Vagrant box earlier
this week and one of them required augeas.
I kept running into "Could not find a default provider for
augeas", however all the appropriate augeas , augeas-lib and
ruby-augeas packages were installed. I inspected the different
ruby directories and the files were perfectly in
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8 where I expected them.
With all the files seemd to be in the right place, my next option was to strace a small ruby script that included augeas, guess what that showed ..
I just got back from Velocity for the third straight year. I have
been to all three of them which is kind of a neat little club to
be in. The first one only had maybe 300 people. This year there
were over 1,000 attendees. Registration was shut down by the fire
code for the rooms we were using. Most sessions had standing room
only. It was awesome.
The people that talk at Velocity are really smart. I am always
humbled by the likes of John Allspaw. He and I see eye to eye on a
lot, but he is so much better at explaining to people and showing
them how to make the ideas work. I wish I had his charisma when
at the podium. I was lucky enough to write a chapter in a book
for John this year. He and Velocity co-chairperson Jesse Robbins
organized and authored a book titled …
So about 4 monts ago there was the crazy idea to start a new FOSS event in Belgium targeted at sysadmins.
What started out as an event for local people to meet local people with some local speakers actually ended up being a small local event with some top international speakers on onfiguration mananagement and system administration mixed with a bunch of good local ones !
I had the honour to open the conference with an extremely short version of the Devops talk I gave earlier last year.. extremely short as I knew that over the course of the weekend the topic would reoccur a lot.
We had the first european talk on Chef, by Joshua Timberman, and we had Puppet talks amongst by Dan Bode from Puppetlabs and CFengine talks , devops was a frequently dropped word,
We had a book raffle where …
[Read more]Last week I was in Manchester for the 2010 UKUUG Spring Conference, right .. make that 2 weeks ago , :)
The UKUUG usually hosts the more interesting conferences around ... , it's not just the schedule that attrackts me , yes there's the strong focus towards Larger Scale Unix (and mostly Linux) deployments and how to manage them, but there's also the opportunity to chat in real life with the Devops from across the chunnel.
Spending time with R.I.Pienaar, Julian Simpson, Simon Wilkinson , Alex Davies , Simon Riggs , Josette, and many others is always fun .
As I …
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