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by jnewland 11mo ago
This is a pretty hilarious and long-winded way to say "we have no idea how to lock someone out of a web service:" > 1. While Ruby Central correctly removed access to shared credentials through its enterprise password manager pr
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YAMBURGER and kubevalidator: GitHub Apps that lint YAML(urcomputeringpal.com)
1 points by jnewland 8y ago|0 comments
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by jnewland 8y ago
Home Assistant is super dope. https://github.com/jnewland/ha-config is my config if anyone's interested!
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February 28th DDoS Incident Report(githubengineering.com)
369 points by jnewland 9y ago|107 comments
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by jnewland 10y ago
While we're here, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/31/technology/china-appears-t... also happened in 2015. Not a legal request to remove content, per-say, but something...slightly different.
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by jnewland 11y ago
Those tools are certainly useful! In the recent production incident I mentioned, we we able to quickly use SLOWLOG to determine which calls were causing the latency spikes. Thanks deeply for providing all of these useful tools and docs. &gt
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by jnewland 11y ago
This line jumped out to me as well. After a recent production incident determined to have been heavily influenced by several thousand O(N) commands being called against a list several orders of magnitude larger than normal, I'm thinkin
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by jnewland 11y ago
I threw out that prototype soon after the talk. At the time, there weren't a lot of other engineers at the company doing Erlang, so maintenance was considered to be a long-term problem. I'm glad we made that call.
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Large Scale DDoS Attack on GitHub.com(github.com)
35 points by jnewland 11y ago|4 comments
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by jnewland 12y ago
Hi cdibona! I'm primary on-call at GitHub today, and I wanted to say thanks to everyone that worked on https://code.google.com/export-to-github/ and worked with us to load test it before this announcement. It&#x27
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by jnewland 12y ago
Step 1: Stop saying "cyber"
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by jnewland 12y ago
If you have a subdomain, there's no need to use Cloudflare - if you CNAME this domain to pkulchenko.github.io you'll use GitHub's CDN automatically.
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by jnewland 12y ago
That's exactly right.
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by jnewland 12y ago
What domain? I'll get an issue filed to stop sending warning emails in cases like this. Thanks!
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by jnewland 12y ago
Hey folks, Jesse from GitHub Ops here. First off, if you use a DNS provider that has support for a ALIAS records or something similar, pointing your apex domain to <username>.github.io will ensure your GitHub Pages site is served by o
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by jnewland 14y ago
We use https://github.com/soundcloud/large-hadron-migrator/
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by jnewland 15y ago
My wife is pretty convinced I brought this upon myself with my comment on that post. Lol, you never know.
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by jnewland 15y ago
1. IO and CPU load spiked so much that the system was basically unresponsive over SSH. We think it was due another Xen VM swapping out of control. 2. Was 10 seconds with a 10 second timeout (way to low to run `xm list` in a loaded situation
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by jnewland 16y ago
has anyone out there actually used or evaluated clustrix? i haven't been able to find anything on the internet about this thing that hasn't come straight from the company.
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by jnewland 16y ago
tl;dr version: http://files.jnewland.com/stonebraker-20101021-200946.jpg
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by jnewland 16y ago
For those on OSX, I just hacked together a homebrew forumla for membase beta 2 yesterday: http://groups.google.com/group/membase/t/69a47f80a2b772b8
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Profile the memory usage of any Ruby library by monkey-patching 'require'(jessenewland.tumblr.com)
2 points by jnewland 17y ago|0 comments
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Deployment is just a part of dev/ops cooperation, not the whole thing(kitchensoap.com)
5 points by jnewland 17y ago|0 comments
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by jnewland 17y ago
You can't gain any more cycles, of course, but you can gain throughput by adding processes to an already cpu-bound app by giving faster incoming requests a place to go instead of sitting on the global queue while waiting for other request
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by jnewland 17y ago
Excellent point, Jeremy. This article didn't talk at all about the CPU/RAM balance, which is a important to consider when scaling any application. In my experience, a large number of Rails apps are more RAM bound than CPU bound due to large
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by jnewland 17y ago
Nice, I'm really looking forward that to that. I'd love to hear about the transition too - big moves aren't easy, as I'm sure you guys know.
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by jnewland 17y ago
> From what I understand, we're at the data migration point, and we're waiting on EY for that. s/working directly with/delaying/ http://support.github.com/discussions/site/721-network-feed-...
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by jnewland 18y ago
not currently, since the underlying configuration engine, Puppet, doesn't support rollbacks
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Moonshine: A Puppet and Capistrano based configuration management tool for Rails(blog.railsmachine.com)
15 points by jnewland 18y ago|3 comments
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by jnewland 18y ago
I've been using git-wiki recently, with great success: http://github.com/jnewland/git-wiki/tree/master

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