We’re all ops people now

We now have networks and clusters of (virtual) machines, software so agile we need six decimal places to describe its revision levels, and network and authentication paths that are starting to tangle. How do we manage…

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Justin Mason: links for 2008-06-20

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We’re all ops people now
‘Our programs have left the desktop and found their new home on the web. System administration issues loom large.’ I agree with the thesis, but Puppet as a key…

links for 2008-06-22

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China - Angry scenes at China’s petrol pumps
Gas prices high in China, but that’s just a problem for the rich there: ”Common people don’t have cars. They’ll welcome the decision as it hurts the…

We're all ops people now

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We’re all ops people now. Edd’s experience reflects my own: the kind of systems I’m building these days involve way more than just development, they often involve significant sysadmin type skills as well.…

RailsConf, remotely

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I couldn’t make it to RailsConf this year, but have been playing my part from afar. It gives me a small kick of pride to note that now RailsConf is run entirely out of Expectnation, which is of course…

Edd Dumbill: Badges, blogging and bragging

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Back from my travels, it’s time for a few updates. I’ve mostly blogged about these elsewhere, so I’ll just give some pointers here.
The launch of magnetic-stripe cards at Where 2.0 went well.
We had some initial…

Edd Dumbill: Colophonically and conversationally yours

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I’ve been trying out some new social discussion tools recently, trying to keep up to date and figure out which ones are actually helpful.
FriendFeed
I initially signed up to FriendFeed too early, but took a second look…

Edd Dumbill: Gandi’s VM hosting beta now closed to new users

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I’ve been experimenting with Gandi’s virtual hosting service recently. In fact, this blog is now hosted on it.
Gandi have created by far the easiest hosting service I’ve used. The web interface allows you to buy…

Dublin and San Francisco

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About to go off travelling again.
Next week is of course XTech 2008, so I’ll be in Dublin with some of the smartest people working in web technology today. The schedule looks fantastic, and we’ve still got proposals…

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