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by lusis 12y ago
Yep. I got in on the RHAT F&F deal thanks to some bug reports and a patch here and there. I made the stupid mistake of allowing coworkers to buy some shares through me but I wasn't fully aware of the tax burden. Basically everythin
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by lusis 13y ago
That's not what I'm saying at all. In fact I was pretty clear about that fact. What I said was that I, personally, am going to be writing more personal tooling in Go. I was pretty clear that our team is NOT switching off Python. I
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by lusis 14y ago
Graylog2 only handles syslog and its own protocol (GELF) for accepting log events. Graylog2 uses ElasticSearch for data storage. Logstash can use ElasticSearch or just send the data elsewhere. The Graylog2 web interface is pretty awesome an
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by lusis 14y ago
Logstash and Graylog are complimentary. Most people, myself included, we're originally using Graylog2 in conjunction with Logstash. Graylog2, though, had problems with it's original implementation based on capped containers in MongoDB. It h
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by lusis 14y ago
You might underestimate the size of deployments of logstash. Mailchimp runs logstash in a pretty sizeable cluster for all traffic coming into HTTP front-ends. I can think of quite a few sizeable logstash installs that I can't mention.
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by lusis 14y ago
Please don't call logstash "an open source splunk". It's no such thing. Splunk still has features that logstash doesn't have (yet). Logstash has quite a few features that Splunk doesn't have. Jordan had never seen (or to my knowledge has ye
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by lusis 15y ago
This is why my vpn setup is done via Rackspace. I gave up fighting this backwards ass approach to the problem.
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by lusis 15y ago
Got a really good shot last night playing outside with the kids: http://yfrog.com/o03xqzsj Not bad for a cellphone camera.
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by lusis 15y ago
Oh wow. I didn't realize until postrank told me that my post had made it to HN. I'll answer some comments below (and I have another post in the works.
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by lusis 15y ago
The problem is people are still confusing two issues. 1 - The mass assignment rails issue was resolved as soon as could be after it was reported 2 - The public key form update vuln was NOT reported and used, NOT to attack github but to mak
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by lusis 15y ago
For those who don't know, nats is at the core of cloudfoundry. It's a great tool if you're in an all ruby world. The author wrote messaging software for Tibco before vmware so he knows his stuff. Having said that, 0mq is probably a better c
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by lusis 15y ago
We had a discussion about the original blog post over on IRC. I'm not going to tone down my talks (unless it's inappropriate for the audience) but I normally won't include it in a slide. There's a difference for me verbally and putting it d
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by lusis 15y ago
Good to see a local gang representing!
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by lusis 15y ago
TMTOWTDI. Ruby, for all the problems it can cause, gives you. More than one way to solve a problem. Yes, it sometimes makes it harder to dive into other's code but I happen to enjoy the expressiveness. Mind you I love some of the things abo
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by lusis 15y ago
This is a horrible idea. Detecting things like publish date is incredibly difficult. I can totally understand the aversion to wanting to generalize tags but this one is, IMHO, appropriate.
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by lusis 15y ago
IMHO, the thing that bothered me about the whole exchange was that it could have been avoided with a little bit of common courtesy. Instead it turned into a "oh let's go roll that pull request". I picked up pretty early on that antirez want
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by lusis 15y ago
Feel free to correct me then. I have YET to work anywhere in any industry (financial primarily) that stated we had to have specific hardware up and running as part of an SLA. It's an "SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT" not a "SERVER LEVEL AGREEMENT".
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by lusis 15y ago
You don't need to "understand" why someone would use Android anymore than I need to understand why someone uses iOS. But if it helps you sleep at night, I simply dislike iOS. I dislike the UI. I dislike the keyboard. I dislike the interface
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by lusis 15y ago
Rollbacks are a myth. You can never rollback. Always be rolling forward. Enabling a culture and environment that allows for small frequent changes solves that problem. The way to not impact a customer is to make deploys trivial, automated a
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by lusis 15y ago
Triviality has nothing to do with it. Nothing in your SLA says you have to have servers 1, 2 and 3 available. It says you have to have service X available. You can do that with out taking a downtime hit.
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by lusis 15y ago
There is a better way. It's to stop deleting and start deprecating. Write your code in a backwards compatible way. If your storage engine, whatever it is, can't handle it then switch storage engines. The author makes some amazing points tha
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by lusis 15y ago
It's not so much what I consider to be missing as what others don't seem to be finding in them that encourages them to bolt on functionality into "incompatible" tools: http://blog.lusis.org/blog/2011/08/22/the-configuration-mana...
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by lusis 15y ago
A little while ago is a bit of a stretch. BOTH communities have moved far and beyond the state of things in that article. The fact of the matter is that X vs. Y is ENTIRELY subjective. It isn't a sporting event where there's a clear cut way
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by lusis 15y ago
CFEngine is the "granddaddy" of configuration management. It's been around something like 17 years at this point. CFEngine spawned Puppet spawned Chef (rougly speaking) I never got involved with BCfg2 or lcfg so I don't remember the history
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by lusis 15y ago
The correct answer to this entire question is "yes". Use whichever tool encourages you to adopt proper configuration management. Yes, there's a gap that the current crop of CM tools don't address (and why we see new versions of capistrano c
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by lusis 15y ago
If you are unhappy with Merb then convert it to pure rack or sinatra and send a pull request. It works and it's seriously as low of a priority as I can imagine. The server is nothing more than an API endpoint. You can (and people have) rewr
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by lusis 15y ago
I can't recall the name off hand and my googlefu is failing me but there's a theory that says a system that supports multiple political parties eventually evolves (or devolves) into two parties. I think there's a business correlary as well.
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by lusis 15y ago
The article covers it but those are different C-based Ruby VM implementations: - 1.8 is MRI - 1.9 is YARV - 1.8 plus performance patches is REE
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by lusis 15y ago
Well in my case I have a rule. I don't friend anyone on facebook I've never met personally of that I'm currently working with. Everyone is pretty understanding about it.
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by lusis 15y ago
I think I've found a healthy balance. I don't use twitter for generally personal stuff (except for the occasional twitter commiserating with other parents) and I don't use Facebook for any technical stuff. My blog is mostly technical and th

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