Category: F/LOSS
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Quick thot on MySQL
Had a good question in my MySQL talk about how to monitor performance, and of course I suggested turning on the MySQL slow query log. What I neglected to mention, however, was mytop. This little utility is found in the rpmforge repo and it’s like a top(1) for your mysql queries. The basis for it…
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Another Great Linuxfest Northwest
What an impressive LinuxFest. It felt really pro this year with big printed badges and registration. I would have been. Happy to have picked up my badge friday night if I knew what the crowd might have been Sat morning. The robot room was definitely Liam’s favorite. Thank you BAIRS! I really dug the competition…
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@lfnw #bike #gps sunday noon
Interested in doing a short ride with GPS and uploading to OpenStreetMap.org? Mapping Party, OSM Talk. Forum discussion.
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LinuxFest Northwest 2011: Traffic Control in Apache
Here are my slides for traffic control in Apache. I decided that last years presentation about Apache rewrites actually sat in a much bigger context of information architecture, performance and caching. So I’ve generalized the discussion and reduced the number of mouse-print code examples. Slides:2011-apache
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LinuxFest Northwest 2011: MySQL Overview
These are the slides I’ll be presenting with for my MySQL Overview talk. Last year I called it the “MySQL Buffet”…and I prolly have more slides up here than time window. Slides:2011-mysql-buffet You’ll find a surprise slide, “boring” in there. And this is pretty much my take on the Oracle acquisition of Sun thus of MySQL AB.…
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LinuxFest Northwest 2011…comin’ round the mountain!
I’m looking forward to LinuxFest Northwest 2011 this year! I’ll be presenting on the MySQL database and how to control web traffic in Apache. I’ll even be presenting in the Linux Action Room and will get to show my evil grin to Chris and Bryan :-) I’ll be posting my slides ahead of time, I…
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Translating Filenames — Bash Voodoo Style #linux
This is an example of using Bash to convert a crazy apache log and translating the filename into an IIS log pattern: d=`date +%Y%m%d` find k -type f \ | while read filename do nextfile=”${filename/k\/done?0.www\./k2/www-Server_T${d}_}.log” echo “$nextfile” cat $filename | $translate > “$nextfile” done I love how I can refer to a shell variable ($d)…
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Last happy thots on LinuxFest Northwest 2010 #lfnw
As always, I completely enjoyed meeting all the new and returning people at LinuxFest Northwest. I was especially proud to finally shake Brian Aker’s hand and thank him for his work on memcached and how inspired I was about the ideas behind Gearman. Gearman is a job-coalescing processing protocol that can solve map-reduce problems. Please…
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Remember “In the Trenches”? That’s How I Learned of LOPSA #lfnw
I chatted with a few of the guys at the LOPSA booth and mentioned that I first learned about LOPSA by listening to Kevin Devin’s In the Trenches podcast. This Friends In Tech show was insightful, informative and inspiring in that it presented intelligent and professional discussion about the profession of system administration, not merely…
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