I hate iTunes with passion. It’s bloated and annoying. However, since it is a major revenue stream for Apple, they try hard to push it into your face as often as possible. Since I …
If you have nothing booked for August 30th, I suggest you mark it ‘busy’ in your calendar, as that’s the date for NoSQL Road Show in Basel, Switzerland. At the event, I will be …
If you haven’t heard of Bottle, it’s a lightweight web framework for Python. It is perfect if you have a small project that requires a web interface, but you don’t want to go all …
In recent time, I’ve really started to appreciate Munin. I’ve deployed Munin in multiple architectures already, and I still get impressed every time by how easy it is to setup. I …
In the last few years, we‘ve spent a lot of time migrating away from all our physical servers and into the cloud. This has been a very interesting task, that presented its own set …
Some time ago, I posted a question on Serverfault about how people managed and deployed ports in a large environment. Despite a fair number of comment, nobody seemed to really have …
Let me first admit that I am new to Munin. I’ve played around with most monitoring tool, but never Munin for some reason. I really don’t know why, since it appears to be a great …
This week I was interviewed (Swedish) by the Swedish hosting provider City Network for their blog. In the article I talk about the background of WireLoad and a bit about our …
In this day and age, many people use multi screens in their setup. I’m one of those people. One thing that really bugs me in OS X however, is that you cannot set one wallpaper to …
I recently posted a rather lengthy article titled “High availability with PostgreSQL, PGPool-II and FreeBSD.” The article was a bi-product of setting this up and the blog-post was …
Recently I wrote a post titled ‘Notes on MongoDB, GridFS, sharding and deploying in the cloud.’ I talked about various aspects of running MongoDB and how to scale it. One thing we …
I’m a big fan of FreeBSD. However, as painful it is to admit, it isn’t always the best OS to run in the cloud. Compared to Linux, you will get worse network and disk performance …