Thu, 03 Jul 2008
Links of the Day: July 03, 2008
Oren Hurvitz’s Blog - LinkedIn Architecture
"At JavaOne 2008, LinkedIn employees presented two sessions about the LinkedIn architecture."
Esoteric Curio - Scalability and concessions
Follow up... "I would like to comment on something I see repeated again and again and is likely misinterpreted by young scalability architects. The statement of what you should expect to lose when you scale up/out."
[2008/07/03 / daily links permanent link]
Wed, 02 Jul 2008
Links of the Day: July 02, 2008
The OSPF Default Mysteries
"In this article, you’ll see how the Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) protocol uses default routes and how various OSPF-generated default routes interact in typical network scenarios."
Key differences between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0
"Web 2.0 is a buzzword introduced in 2003–04 which is commonly used to encompass various novel phenomena on the World Wide Web. Although largely a marketing term..."
[2008/07/02 / daily links permanent link]
Sun, 29 Jun 2008
Links of the Day: June 29, 2008
iamcal.com - Parsing Email Adresses in PHP
That is one crazy regex.
Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
"Why is everyone in such a rush? Walk into any bookstore, and you'll see how to Teach Yourself Java in 7 Days alongside endless variations offering to teach Visual Basic, Windows, the Internet, and so on in a few days or hours."
[2008/06/29 / daily links permanent link]
Sat, 28 Jun 2008
Links of the Day: June 28, 2008
Renesys Blog: Cogent Becomes Transit-Free
"Cogent (AS174) has established a direct connection to the America Online Transit Data Network (ATDN) (AS1668). This long-awaited connection completes Cogent's effort to directly connect with every transit-free network in the world."
WWoIT - Wayne's World of IT: Find VM snapshots in ESX/VC
"Find snapshots of VMs in ESX and VC other than manually looking through each VM in the GUI. Query the db using SQL management studio, use sqlcmd from the command-line, list the files in the service console, or use the new VI Toolkit powershell snap-in."
xtravirt.com - SnapHunter
"SnapHunter is an ESX3 Service Console utility which can report back on the Snaphot status of VM's from multiple ESX Servers."
[2008/06/28 / daily links permanent link]
Thu, 26 Jun 2008
Links of the Day: June 26, 2008
Oil Price Fallout: Jobs Coming Home?
Sometimes cheap labour isn't enough... "As the cost of shipping continues to soar along with fuel prices, homegrown manufacturing jobs are making a comeback after decades of decline."
Virtual Geek: Answers to a bunch of questions
"I got a lot of questions on the 10GbE post, which is great. Some of the answers involve graphics, so rather than comments, I'm just going to do a post...."
Coding Horror: Revisiting the XML Angle Bracket Tax
"I wasn't trying to present it as "Oh, XML is bad...". What I was trying to say is why don't we think about what we're doing? ... Can we just stop programming for a minute to think about what we're doing and not make a blind choice...?"
Coding Horror: The Ultimate Code Kata
"Contrary to what you might believe, merely doing your job every day doesn't qualify as real practice. ... You have to set aside some time once in a while and do focused practice in order to get better at something."
Stevey's Home Page - It's Not Software
I do a lot of monitoring at work at this rang true: "... until you're actually measuring all your use cases, any one of them can potentially be unavailable without your knowledge. Hence availability monitoring always evolves into real-time QA."
