By the numbers: How Google Compute Engine stacks up to Amazon EC2 — Tech News and Analysis

March 19th, 2013
some interesting piece of data comparing AWS and GCE (google compute engine, i.e IAAS offering from google)

Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years [by Peter Norvig]

March 19th, 2013
an excellent article by Peter Norvig that explains all those "teach yourself X in " nonsense

Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years [by Peter Norvig]

March 19th, 2013
an excellent article by Peter Norvig that explains all those "teach yourself X in " nonsense

APT1 Exposing One of China’s Cyber Espionage Units [PDF]

February 20th, 2013
report from a computer security company that links Chinese hack group APT1 to China's government [Army] --------------- aPt1 is believed to be the 2nd Bureau of the People’s Liberation army (PLa) General staff Department’s (GsD) 3rd Department (总参三部二局), which is most commonly known by its Military unit Cover Designator (MuCD) as unit 61398 (61398部队) ---------------

APT1 Exposing One of China’s Cyber Espionage Units [PDF]

February 20th, 2013
report from a computer security company that links Chinese hack group APT1 to China's government [Army] --------------- aPt1 is believed to be the 2nd Bureau of the People’s Liberation army (PLa) General staff Department’s (GsD) 3rd Department (总参三部二局), which is most commonly known by its Military unit Cover Designator (MuCD) as unit 61398 (61398部队) ---------------

SCRUM For SysAdmin/DevOps Workflow

February 20th, 2013
At $WORK we are using agile workflow (SCRUM) for Sysadmin/DevOps team. It had been a pain in the beginning, but recently it started to pay off, once we got some details right.

We use Jira and whiteboard + sticky notes to track the whole process. Operational/support Items are tracked in a continuous "Kanban"-like process -- note "SUPPORT" area in the middle of the board.

Let me know if you'd like to know more, and we are hiring.

Here is how our SCRUM board looked at the end of the sprint (Fri last week)

Here is how our SCRUM board looks at the beginning of the sprint (Tue, 1st day of the sprint)




SCRUM For SysAdmin/DevOps Workflow

February 20th, 2013
At $WORK we are using agile workflow (SCRUM) for Sysadmin/DevOps team. It had been a pain in the beginning, but recently it started to pay off, once we got some details right.

We use Jira and whiteboard + sticky notes to track the whole process. Operational/support Items are tracked in a continuous "Kanban"-like process -- note "SUPPORT" area in the middle of the board.

Let me know if you'd like to know more, and we are hiring.

Here is how our SCRUM board looked at the end of the sprint (Fri last week)

Here is how our SCRUM board looks at the beginning of the sprint (Tue, 1st day of the sprint)




0day Linux/CentOS SSHd Spam Exploit — libkeyutils.so.1.9 | Security, Server Tweaking, IT Management Blog By SolidShellSecurity

February 19th, 2013
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1235797 A lot of compromised linux servers reported on the net. Possibly, due to new 0-day vuln.

0day Linux/CentOS SSHd Spam Exploit — libkeyutils.so.1.9 | Security, Server Tweaking, IT Management Blog By SolidShellSecurity

February 19th, 2013
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1235797 A lot of compromised linux servers reported on the net. Possibly, due to new 0-day vuln.

Remote Monitoring Heap Memory Usage Using JMX RMI

January 29th, 2013
Shows how to write simple Java JMX RMI client to extract RMI values.