I get a good number of job offers without sending resumes around. I guess my name shows up in enough places, associated with enough buzzwords, that recruiters fire off emails first and read the fine print later. The “fine print” in my case, says that I do not have a college degree. 99.999% of the…
Category: Sysadmin
Amazon Adds Static IP and “Availability Zones” to EC2
This is cool. You can now associate a static IP address with your EC2 instances. No more mucking about with 10-minute DNS timeouts or dynamic DNS routines. You can also elect to start certain instances in multiple locations using “Availability Zones” These new features will make it a little easier for people to deploy larger…
Hadoop, EC2, S3, and me
I’m playing with a lot of rather large data sets. I’ve just been informed recently that these data sets are child’s play, because I’ve only been exposed to the outermost layer of the onion. The amount of data I *will* have access to (a nice way of saying “I’ll be required to wrangle and munge”)…
The Power of Open Source
I think my very favorite aspect of the open source development model is that it allows me to practice the philosophies I use in my every day personal life, and apply them to software development as well. In my teens and early 20’s I read quite a lot of Aristotle and Plato, and a very…
Loghetti is now an open source project
I was getting feedback about loghetti, and it was all very useful, and it’s still coming in, and I can’t work full-time on it. At the same time, I’d love for some of the stuff I’ve read about to be implemented, because I certainly could make use of it myself. So if anyone is interested,…
Feedback and Boredom Result in 35% Performance Boost for Loghetti
Well, I got some feedback on my last post, and I had some time on my hands tonight, and Python is pretty darn easy to use. As a result, loghetti is making great strides in becoming a faster log filter. To test the performance in light of the actual changes I’ve made, I’m asking loghetti…
Loghetti Beta – An Apache Log Filter
I’m thinking about just making this an open source project hosted someplace like Google Code or something, because there are folks much smarter than myself who can probably do wonders with the code I’ve put together here. Loghetti takes an Apache combined format access log and a few options as arguments, throws your log lines…
What I learned about Python Today – eval()
I was writing some Python yesterday, and came across an issue that I thought was going to send me back to the drawing board. I was using a module that, given an Apache access log, returns line objects with the fields of the line as attributes of the line object. It was certainly usable as-is,…
Taking Virtualization to the Next Level: AppLogic
Every now and then, something comes around that is as useful as it is novel. Of course, the notion of virtualized systems isn’t new. In fact, systems running something like what we now call a “hypervisor” have existed for, literally, decades. But what about that next level of virtualization? What if you could not only…
Diving into Django
Yeah, so… Doug said if I was looking to make friends with Python for anything other than systems work, I should probably have a look at Django. Then I found this install on OS X guide the other day, and went ahead and downloaded Django. About 15 minutes later, I was looking at the “It…