Fubaredness Is Contagious

Today I discovered that Firefox 3 will refuse to display a site over HTTPS if its SSL certificate is revoked. And even though I am not questioning merits of this decision, I still would have preferred to have this behavior configurable, either somewhere deep in Preferences or at least via about:config (quick scan of the […]

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http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/19/21FE-startups-intro_1.html and http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/19/21FE-startups-winners_2.html

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What we in IT call a “bad state” (as in “application ended up in a bad state and needed to be restared”) in economics is called “bad equilibrium.” Here is more on General Equilibrium theory.

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Check this out - someone else is thinking along the same lines - http://elasticvapor.com/2008/05/virtual-private-cloud-vpc.html

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What is the most important phase of a software development project? Some people might say planning, others might think it’s QA. Probably nobody will say actually doing it (aka development), as that would be too boring.
I think all these answers are wrong. In my opinion, the most important phase of a software development project is… […]

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http://damienkatz.net/2008/04/couchdb_language_change.html
Or is it not a joke?…

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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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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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