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Month: August 2008

Sustained IO on EBS == No Bueno

Posted on August 27, 2008 by bkjones

I have a small EC2 instance running with a 25GB EBS volume attached. It has a database on it that I need to manipulate by doing things like dropping indexes and creating new ones. This is on rather large (multi-GB, millions of rows) tables. After running one DROP INDEX operation that ran all day without…

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More Adventures in Amazon EC2 (and EBS)

Posted on August 27, 2008 by bkjones

Short Version: You can find a fantastic video here about bundling customized AMIs and registering them with Amazon so that you can launch as many instances of your new AMI as you want. The video is so good that I don’t bother writing out the steps to do the bundling (it would be pretty darn…

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PyWorks Conference Schedule Posted

Posted on August 27, 2008 by bkjones

Hi all, The schedule for PyWorks has been posted! I’m really excited about three things: 1) there are some really cool talks that I’m looking forward to attending. There are a couple of sysadmin-related talks, AppEngine, TurboGears, Django, and an area I’ve been especially slow to move into: testing (I know, shame on me). There’s…

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Why I Don’t Write Book Reviews

Posted on August 8, 2008 by bkjones

I have a lot of interaction with publishing types. I write a lot, and I edit some, and I do tech reviews and stuff for some publishers, and I co-authored a book, and I’ve worked on two magazines, and a newspaper, and I’m generally fascinated by the technical book market and stuff like that. I’m…

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Design Patterns in System Administration

Posted on August 3, 2008 by bkjones

Most readers of my blog know that I consult, in addition to usually having a day job. I started my career working for a consulting firm, and couldn’t let go of the endless fascinating problems that exist in the “technological landscape”, and in addition, the seemingly endless numbers of ways to solve them. I’ve learned…

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