Zen and the art of scalability
Lately I’ve been giving lot of thought to scalability.
You see, a good portion of my work in the last few years has been scaling things. Junior admins configure and build things. Senior admins and architects are past the point of “getting $thing to work” and are into the realm of “getting $thing to work well [...]
December 12, 2008
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Benefits of Virtualization
I’ll admit it. I was skeptical about the virtualization hype. I am not a big fan of adding overhead with no point- X on a server machine for example. The products I had played with were early on- Xen, Qemu, and other ones like that. They, frankly, sucked.
About half a year ago, though, I got [...]
December 6, 2008
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