Archive for October, 2011

Jboss Cluster in the Cloud | JBossWorld, Redhat Presentation [ban_w_310_running_in_the_cloud.pdf ]

Monday, October 31st, 2011

“RUNNING A JBOSS CLUSTER IN THE CLOUD”, by Bela Ban, JBoss. “JBoss Clustering uses IP
multicasting, so it doesn’t work on EC2 !@#$@” — WRONG ! Of course it DOES ! -

Gigabit_Networks_Linux – OpenVPN Community

Monday, October 31st, 2011

Notes about OpenVPN performance testing. Results, in short: easy to saturate 100Mbit network on common hardware. Possible to do a near wire-line speed on 1Gbit network (needs recent version of openssl-1.0a, fresh intel CPU that does AES in hardware …

Really Big Elephants Data Warehousing with PostgreSQL

Monday, October 31st, 2011

Presentation by Josh Berkus (PostgeSQL developer)
at MySQL User Conference 2011

SSL Protocol Flow Diagram / ssl_handcheck2.png (PNG Image, 640×763 pixels)

Monday, October 31st, 2011

Thanks to Aloha LoadBalncer people for nice SSL protocol diagram

Caching & Performance: Lessons from Facebook

Sunday, October 30th, 2011

Slides describe how FB uses caching at web server/php layer. ($GLOBALS->apc_cache->memcache->MySQL)

Don’t Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice | Kalzumeus Software

Saturday, October 29th, 2011

Read it. Take it with a grin of salt* . Nevertheless, the piece gives you sort of accurate prospective on how business views/values your engineering position

» HOWTO monitor Tomcat with monit and munin in Debian

Sunday, October 23rd, 2011

The subject. Monit is only used for monitoring basic service availability and standard system metrics. Munin is used to monitor tomcat internal parameters collected from tomcat manager via munin plugin

Computist Quiz [questions for programmers, from CS, US Santa Barbara]]

Sunday, October 23rd, 2011

The Subj. Try to solve the questions in your head, w/out using paper and pencil. [from AVVA http://avva.livejournal.com/ ]

JBoss Worm Exploiting Old Bug to Infect Unpatched Servers | threatpost

Saturday, October 22nd, 2011

Worm uses bug in jmx-console to execute shell code, then it installs perl-based control daemon that connects to IRS, and tries to discover other JBoss’es near by by using jgroups UDP multicast. Here is more details, including the source code http://pa…

AMD Opteron™ and Intel® Xeon® x86 processors in industry-standard servers C02731435.pdf

Saturday, October 15th, 2011

Hewlett-Packard Technology brief, 2nd edition. APR/2011. This paper summarizes the technologies in the latest generation of AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon processors. These technologies include: Microarchitecture, I/O, Power management, Virtualization, Da…