Backup, Replication and Disaster Recovery
How to go about creating better backups through replication and snapshots and how to ensure that your infrastructure has a solid disaster recovery plan.
22 Posts
Topic: Systems
Where have all the good databases gone?
Perhaps you’ll recognize these words, “About five years ago I started to notice an odd thing. …
Easy bash scripting with shflags
One of the most frustrating things about bash scripts is how challenging it is to create unix …
Unix Jobs Management
Every self respecting linux, mac os X or *nix user should have a solid handle on managing jobs …
Human readable du sorted by size
du is the *nix command for disk usage. It tells you how much space everything in the given …
Benchmarking Cloudfront (and S3)
Amazon has done it again bringing another computing service to the masses. This time it’s the …
Using the right keys
Today I was visiting a friends office and like many offices in NYC they have a shared bathroom …
REST vs SOAP, the difference between soap and rest
What's SOAP? What's REST? and what the differences are between them with recommendations of when to use REST versus SOAP
7 security practices you need to follow
Some of this may seem like a broken record, yet every single time you hear about a bank losing …
Secure Automated, Key Based SSH
SSH is great and secure… Unless you need to automate it. Then it sucks because your only …
Installing Git on a Shared Host
Git is a fantastic tool and is very useful for deployment. If you can’t install git system wide …
Mastering the Command Line
If you use *nix, no doubt you’ve spent some time on the command line. Here are a few of the …
Windows 7 launch notes
I was fortunate to be able to attend the Microsoft Launch Developer Preview meeting in NYC. …
Using Nginx as a Load Balancer
Nginx is a relatively new web server that has a light footprint and relatively easy …
Choosing a Hosting Partner
No question about it, choosing a good hosting partner is one of the most important decisions a …
Setting up Subversion with multiple access methods
One thing that makes subversion such a powerful revision system is it’s ability to permit …
Scaling Web Sites (LAMP) : Top Resources
Luckily it’s 2009 and there have been a bunch of successful websites that have had to deal with …
Backup Your Files
This article will show you how to automatically backup your files often and automatically.
Backing up MySQL
How to fully automate the backup of a MySQL database system.
Using SVK to Increase Productivity
After subversion but before Git there was SVK. If you are stuck using subversion do yourself a favor and use svk.
Implementing a Corporate Wiki
Steps to choose and implement a corporate wiki from access policies to adoption
Be more productive using GNU Screen
Tips, Techniques and Tricks for using GNU Screen to increase your productivity.