Introduction Recently, I have implemented a new RabbitMQ infrastructure, for the company I regularly work,which is supposed to serve several different customers and services spacing from complex applications to CMS services to long lasting transaction systems. What is extremely interesting of this exercise is that the request to have this new service was driven by developers, […]
on a devops website, I saw this picture, couldn’t resist to post it here:
Aws released the x1 instances. The new instance type offers 128 virtual cores and about 2 tb of RAM. I will never stop to be susprised of this job, i still feel excited reading this stuff. I feel like my son when he sees a new toy, he just wants to play with it. The new […]
From Yesterday, Redhat Enterprise Linux is free for usage for developers! This is a incredible news for anyone having worked with the best enterprise Linux distro. This is an evident countermeasure against Ubuntu and Amazon Linux, well done Redhat! http://developers.redhat.com/blog/2016/03/31/no-cost-rhel-developer-subscription-now-available/ In simple words, I am sorry CENTOS 🙂 I loved you but it’s over
A very interesting report from Google about the Enigma conference. It contains useful information on how they care about security. From mindset to strategy passing by tactics. http://googleresearch.blogspot.it/2016/03/lessons-learned-while-protecting-gmail.html
Dropbox, one of the biggest AWS installation, implemented its own storage solution The reading is very interesting and highlights what is under the hood of this fantastic service. Actually dropbox has impressive numbers. They currently have 500 PB of data, very few companies in the world have such a massive amount of storage. […]
The linked article provides a deep analysis of the stackoverflow architecture. They use 11 IIS servers, 4 SQL Servers, Redis, Elasticsearch and HA Proxy in front of the web heads. http://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/02/17/stack-overflow-the-architecture-2016-edition/ It is a very interesting article. They handle a massive number of hits every day, 209,420,973 hits. with a bunch of servers It is rather […]
Many people around talk about Devops like if it is the end of any rule or standard techniques. It is like ITIL should not be adopted anymore, security is an option or operations team are meaningless (it would be called DEV, without OPS I guess). https://opensource.com/business/15/4/6-common-devops-myths In my humble opinion, Devops was embraced by 777 […]
Introduction While compiling a custom version of PHP (5.6.14) on a Redhat 6.5 I got the following error: configure: error: Don’t know how to define struct flock on this system, set –enable-opcache=no Looking around on the net didn’t find a lot of information about it. Solution Using a bit of logic and understanding that […]
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