Archive for October, 2009

[RUS] RAR: получение списка файлов без PECL / PHP / Хабрахабр

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

article in Russian that explains RAR archive format, and shows example php code that gets list of files out of the archive

High Scalability – High Scalability – Facebook’s Memcached Multiget Hole: More machines != More Capacity 

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

also see http://dormando.livejournal.com/521163.html Describing some problems with performance/scalability you may have if you partition/shard your data by hash. ( that’s what memcached does.) You may hit the cpu bound limit from the amount of requ…

Nehalem Routing Pefromance Test Results, 2009 Netdev conf, Vayatta.

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

test results for linux routing performance on recent intel “nehalem” CPUs and 10G ethernet

www.sdsqlug.org/presentations/May2009/MySpace_DB_Overview.pptx

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

myspace architecture presentation, talks about how to myspace solves its database issues

Welcome to GitCasts

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

screen casts tutorials for basic git usage

[article] We’ve Seen the Future, and It’s Unmanned

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

An article in Esquire about how UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) missions look up close.

PWN Your Infrastructure

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

notes about [web] infrastructure monitoring from well-known game company (call of duty, gitar hero).

Graphing Linux Disk I/O statistics with Munin – Michael Renner’s macro-blog

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

tells you about a plugin (a perl script ) for munin that will collect linux disk IO stats and send it to munin for pretty graphs.

OpenSSH Public Key Authentication

Friday, October 9th, 2009

notes on setting up SSH pubic key auth

Optimizing Linux for random I/O on hardware RAID – Fishpool

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

explains use linux IO scheulers with presence of smart RAID controllers.