Devops Needs Sushi
The slides for my Monitoring MySQL talk , which I gave earlier today in an overcrowded MySQl Developersroom at Fosdem are now online, both at my site and at Slideshare
As of now I actually expect people to use those slides for schoolwork or next year in a main Fosdem track :)
As afterall that is the goal of Open Source and spreading the word ..
It’s a fact .. I suck at handing out Free beer, last december we managed to meet in a pub that was closed , and yesterday at the
Fosdem beer event when Philip asked me to hand out some plates of beer I managed getting them out then started wondering why peo
ple didn’t grab them till I started shouting FREE BEER … that worked .. ..
As usual the Beer event was lots of fun bumping into people you iknow but whose name you need to think about for over a minute beo
fre you can remember it.
When I tell people that the concept of copying VM’s around as frequently done in the VMWare world is one of the most stupid ideas on this planet, I get the weirdest looks.
In my world it is, I want my infrastructure to be reproducible , I want to be able to throw any machine in my infrastructure out of the 10th floor of a building and be up and running again in no time. If I spread a bunch of VM copies around who knows what kind of life they start leading. Some will get upgrades, some won’t ..
If I get an image from someone, how did he get there ? Nobody knows ..
When I read Monty’s post on leaving this passage struck me the most.
The main reason for leaving was that I am not satisfied with the way the MySQL server has been developed, as can be seen on my previous blog post. In particular I would have like to see the server development to be moved to a true open development environment that would encourage outside participation and without any need of differentiation on the source code. Sun has been considering opening up the server development, but the pace has been too slow.
Couple of days ago I was working on a Linux Heartbeat v2 setup.
Upon inserting an XML snippet into the cib cib-adm started eating memory fast until the oom killer kicked in.
The environment was running a fairly old heartbeat-2.0.8 version so I upgraded to heartbeat-2.1.4-2.1 and there I got a nice warning that my XML sintax wasn’t correct.
There was a whitespace in the XML syntax.
1. <expression attribute="#replicationvalue" id="is_lagged" operation ="gt" ... ><
Removing the whitespace solves the problem, also on the older version. So the problem is already fixed upstream.. but you might run into it anyhow.
So Fred and I were wondering what people were planning to use as a Database the next couple of months / years or now.
We mostly see MySQL deployments and a little PostgreSQL
But there’s other stuff around ..
So what are you using, , or planning on using ?
Larry, I`m glad you asked ..
With the risk of receiving a flood of comments pointing me to already existing tools here’s my go at what I as a sysadmin of often large deployments am looking for in Drupalland .
You suggest LDAP and syslog integration .. guess we already have that don’t we ?
But what I haven’t found yet ..
An rpm/deb repository of Drupal modules So we can do an apt-get install drupal-package , yes I know about Drush, but I want the files on my system to be in a package and clearly identified, it helps me keeping my system uncluttered.
Poken is the new gadget in town. Some people called it the future of social networking.
The idea of exchanging data at the click of a button , or less has been here fore ages. The problem always is that the tool needs to gain Critical Mass before it becomes useful.
I remember transferring my VCard from my Palm Pilot or Handspring Visor to other people’s Palm Pilot , or using different IrDA protocols to transfer my details between different phones, that worked fine, for the happy few that had similar devices. These days we transfer details over SMS’ messages or Bluetooth, but then they are stuck in the mobile phone, with the Palm I at least imported them in my PIM.
If you read this blog, you should probably sign the petition !
This comment by Jim Leonard, Trixter/Hornet for those who still remember our previous lives , is right on the spot.
“This is the longest post I’ve ever seen that says “do not put your only copy of data on a site you do not pay for or trust.”
Weird, how you suddenly bump online into someone you haven’t heard from for over a decade, and even weirder how they still seem to have similar ideas to yours :-)