I have recently moved to HP's Advanced Technology Group which is
a new group in HP and as part of that I will be blogging a lot
more about the Open Source things I and others in HP work on day
to day. I thought I would kick this off by talking about
work that a colleague of mine, Patrick Crews, worked on several months
ago.
For those who don't know Patrick, he is a great Devops Engineer
and QA. He will find new automated ways of breaking things
that will torture applications (and the Engineers who write
them). I don't know if I am proud or ashamed to say he has found
many bugs in code that I have written by doing the software
equivalent of beating it with a sledgehammer.
Every Devops Engineer worth his salt knows that backups are
important, but one thing that is regularly forgotten about is to
check whether the backups are good. A colleague of mine …
I have been pretty quiet on the blogging front for quite a long
time now. The main reason for this is I have been working
very hard on leading a small team which is developing a
Stackforge project called 'Libra'. As you can probably
guess from the name, Libra is a Load Balancer as a Service
system. Many of you may not of heard of it but according to
Stackalytics it was the 27th biggest project in
terms of code contributed during Havana and 2nd biggest in HP
(something I am especially proud of because it has been one of
the smallest teams in HP Cloud).
It is based on the Atlas
API specifications, creates software-based load balancers, is
implemented in Python and sits on top of Nova instances rather
than working under the cloud. It also has several unique
features which could be …
Today marks the first release of Drizzle Tools for MySQL
servers. Drizzle Tools aims to be a collection of useful
utilities to use with MySQL servers based around the work on the
Libdrizzle Redux project.
In this first version there is one utility in the tree called
'drizzle-binlogs'. If you've seen me talk about this tool
before it is because it used to be included in the Libdrizzle 5.1
source but has now been moved here to be developed
independently. For those who haven't 'drizzle-binlogs' is a
tool which connects to a MySQL server as a slave, retrieves the
binary log files and stores them locally. This could be
used as part of a backup solution or a rapid way to help create a
new MySQL master server.
Due to the API changes before the Libdrizzle API became stable
Drizzle Tools requires a minimum of Libdrizzle 5.1.3 to be …