A special extended edition of Tech Messages for 2011-09-21 through 2012-05-11:

• Understanding Linux CPU Load - when should you be worried?
• Performance Testing - Load Balancer SSL Stress Testing
  This is a great simple test. Thanks, Corey!
• Mosh: the mobile shell
• Twitter open sources its MySQL secret sauce
• Lab Overview
  This guy is serious about his lab!

A special extended edition of Tech Messages for 2011-02-10 through 2011-03-07:

• Nicholas Piël » Benchmark of Python Web Servers
  Nicholas has done an in-depth benchmarking of several WSGI servers in an effort to document their differences. He takes into account the type of server and which version of HTTP it supports.
• My 10 favourite Programming Quotes | Ginktage
  If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. –  Edsger Dijkstra
• VMware vCloud Director …

A special extended edition of Tech Messages for 2011-01-27 through 2011-02-02:

• NetApp File Copy | A NetApp Technical Diary
  There's a lot of ways to copy files on a NetApp Filer.
• NoSQL at Netflix
• Netflix Performance on Top ISP Networks

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A special extended edition of Tech Messages for 2011-01-12 through 2011-01-15:

• Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial by Joel Spolsky
  An introduction to Mercurial (hg) by Joel Spolsky. Includes a special introductory chapter for Subversion users.
• lessfs | Open source data de-duplication
  Open source filesystem with de-duplication.
• UCS B-Series and C-Series Servers Log Memory Errors due to Intel 5600 Erratum Issue
  On a subset of Intel Xeon 5600 series processors, during packet C6 transitions, CPU circuit marginality or internal signaling noise in the may lead to an invalid memory DRAM state, system hang, reboot, memory ECC errors or unpredictable system behavior. This could …

A special extended edition of Tech Messages for 2010-04-29 through 2010-05-14:

• PowerDNS
  DNS server supporting a variety of backends including BIND-style configuration files and relational databases. Also supports providing different answers based on a requester's geographic location.
• Updated - UMPIRE Archived -- ESR or uBR PRE2 Unable To Read PCMCIA ATA Flash Disk - Data Loss or System Boot Hang - Replace Flash Card
  The PCMCIA ATA Flash Disks used in specific Cisco products may contain a Manufacturing defect which reduces reliability of the Flash device. PRE2 cards used both in the Cisco ESR10000 and uBR10000 platforms that contain a suspect Flash device may not be able to access stored files on disk 0/1. The router may …

A special extended edition of Tech Messages for 2010-04-15 through 2010-04-24:

• The Onion Uses Django, And Why It Matters To Us
  I love Django too.
• Open Source Network Monitoring and Systems Management - Zenoss Blog: No Node Left Behind: Datacenter Barometer: BitNami Simplifies Stacks
• mysql-cacti-templates
  Offers complete templates and a method for adding your own. Highly recommended.
• Increase maximum size of PST files
  Microsoft Outlook …

A special extended edition of Tech Messages for 2010-02-20 through 2010-02-24:

• Gartner EXP Worldwide Survey of Nearly 1,600 CIOs Shows IT Budgets in 2010 to be at 2005 Levels
  Virtualization tops the technology priorities.
• Cisco Offers Three-Year, Zero-Percent Financing to U.S. Small and Medium-Sized Businesses -> Cisco News
• Marc Alff's blog: Performance schema overview
  Really interesting stuff for MySQL developers.
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