The Twitter Engineering Blog
Friday, February 19th, 2010all sorts of system and software engineering info from Twitter. Also see http://twitter.com/about/opensource
Archive for February, 2010
Jon Schutz Technical Notes and Recommendations » Perl client for Facebook’s scribe logging software
Friday, February 19th, 2010Describes how to build thrift (cross-platform service/RCP framework from facebook) modules for scribe client (high-performance async log aggregator server from facebook). Also see Log::Dispatch::Scribe on CPAN
Checkpoints and the Background Writer: PostgreSQL 8.3 Improvements and Migration
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010improvements to PostgreSQL that could be made by tuning wal/background writer processes
Tuning PostgreSQL WAL Synchronization
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010Notes about PostgreSQL WAL synchronizations methods
WAL Configuration
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010Notes about Write-Ahead Log, Check points and other IO configuration related to postgresql transaction log settings
THIRD RAIL » Memcached based message queues
Monday, February 8th, 2010Blog pots shows and explains how to implement simple queue system on top of memcached
[DE] Cisco ASA, Linux und QEMU | SinusPL’s Blog
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010Notes about ASA 8.02 firmware: after some tricks with hexdump, dd and gzip, the guy was able to extract linux x86 initrd image from
CCIE in 3 months – Is it possible?: Get your hands dirty with Linux on an ASR1000
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010internal details about Cisco ASR1000 “platform” router, including hardware details (/proc/cpuinfo, dmesg)