FreeBSD failover in the cloud -- UCARP to the rescue
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 …
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The story of Devify and Red iGone
About two years ago I started working on a project called Red iGone together with a friend and we started the company Devify. The objective of the first project was simple — we …
Interviewed by TechCrunch
I’ve already posted about the fact that we’ve released a massive update to YippieMove. Today the legendary Silicon Valley-blog TechCrunch covered this in form of an interview with …
Introducing the brand new YippieMove
A large part of last year spent working on a major update to YippieMove. The new YippieMove is a complete redesign, from the bottom-up. That means new logo, new user interface and …
Notes on MongoDB, GridFS, sharding and deploying in the cloud
We‘ve been using MongoDB in production for about six months with YippieMove. It’s been an interesting experience and we’ve learned a lot. Contrary to many MongoDB deployments, we …
Countries and coffee consumption.
I’m a coffee junkie. Like many of my fellow geeks, I consume way more than the average person. On a normal day, I drink somewhere between 5-10 cups perhaps. How much is that in …
Benchmarking and tuning FreeBSD's VirtIO network driver.
In the previous post, I benchmarked three different virtual network drivers under FreeBSD. The clear winner was, perhaps not very surprisingly, the VirtIO network driver. In this …
Benchmarking (virtual) network drivers under FreeBSD 9
With the launch of FreeBSD 9, I was curious to learn how the VirtIO driver performed. I’ve seen a significant boost in disk performance, but how about the network driver? Luckily, …
How to upgrade FreeBSD 8.2 to FreeBSD 9.0 with Virtio
Some time ago, I wrote about how to use Virtio with FreeBSD 8.2. As I pointed out in the article, the performance was not nearly as good in FreeBSD 8.2 as it was in 9.0-RC1. Hence …
Introducing KISS-surveillance -- The dead simple surveillance solution
You’ve probably already noticed that I’ve used ZoneMinder a bit. I published a few blog-posts on how to set up ZoneMinder, and even posted full virtual appliance for ZoneMinder. …
MongoDB and logrotate
I’ve been using MongoDB now for some time in production. It’s great, and I really love how easy it is to set up and scale with replica sets etc. There is one thing that bugs me …
Puppet on Ubuntu 10.04
Yesterday I decided that it’s about time to learn Puppet. I’ve had my eye on both Puppet and Chef for some time now. Yesterday after reading this Quora-thread and this blog-post, I …