Fubaredness Is Contagious

Virtualization can also serve as software delivery medium. You know, like floppies, CDs and DVDs. You do sacrifice space and some CPU power, but get a controlled installation environment in exchange. This comes handy if a product you are trying to distribute takes some effort and knowledge to install correctly.
To illustrate this concept, I am […]

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Almost everybody is familiar with better resource utilization as one of the benefits of virtualization. You can reduce the physical footprint (have fewer physical pieces of hardware) and still run the same number of “standalone” servers as before virtualization.
I think however that there is another huge benefit that doesn’t get as much attention - virtualization […]

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LinkedIn finally offers personalized RSS feeds.

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Guido van Rossum, creator of Python programming language, published slides of his keynote at PyCon 2008 here.
A note to self: come back to to this link when it’s time to migrate to py3k.

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See an interesting discussion on benefits and shortcomings of “least used resource” mode of load balancing at High Scalability.
Here is what I think:
When dealing with TCP-based services (say http), my solution is not to use this load balancing mode at all precisely for this reason [you bring a new server online - and all of […]

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Yan over at skwpspace.com, who also works at CohesiveFT, wrote an excellent post on 5 reasons you should blog. I would add another to his 5: I view this site as well as my blog as a central index of my activities in blogosphere and social Internet, which I want to be linkable to me.
You […]

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Elastic Server On Demand is now open to all with no registration required. You can browse around the site, see what it’s all about and even build a limited number of Elastic Servers. While you are there, check out Community Servers space where people share their stacks - including this “tracks Getting Things Done” server. […]

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Check out this great review of my VcubeV article by Todd Hoff of Highscalability.com.

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Have you ever needed to expand your colocated servers at more than one provider and allow applications to communicate as if they were on the same LAN, possibly over multiple sets of firewalls and layers of NAT? Or, maybe you’ve wanted to move from one hosting service to another to take advantage of lower […]

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We put together an add-on for py-amqplib that implements AMQP client with non-blocking sockets in python.
There are at least 2 scenarios where non-blocking sockets help, and both are applicable to consumers:
1) when you want to be able to interrupt consumer’s event loop without waiting for a next incoming message;
2) when you want to consume messages […]

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