Archive for category Commentary
Heavyweight tilt : GitHub vs. Bitbucket
Posted by dan in Commentary on 2011/11/08
When it comes to code hosting on The Internets today, GitHub is absolutely the hottest, trendiest service going – but it’s not alone. Right now, the primary direct competitor to GitHub is Bitbucket, and choosing the best service for you or your company can be a less than obvious scenario – so let’s break it [...]
Improvements in Cassandra 1.0, briefly stated
Posted by dan in Commentary on 2011/11/03
Datastax recently announced the availability of Cassandra 1.0 (stable), and along with that announcement, they made a series of blog posts (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) about many of the great new features and improvements that the current version brings to the table. For those of you looking for an executive summary of those posts, [...]
pohmelfs update
Posted by dan in Commentary on 2009/07/01
Hello again ! You may be wondering when the next update in the POHMELFS series is coming – well, rest assured that i’m working on it even as you read this, and that it will be worth the wait. Remember that we’re working with Staging-level code, and that sometimes things don’t always go as well [...]
how to be properly lazy, with perl !
Posted by dan in Code, Commentary on 2009/06/12
One of the wonderful things about Perl is that it enables the busy System Administrator to be lazy – and that’s a good thing ! Of course, i don’t mean lazy as in unmotivated, or possesed of a poor work ethic, i mean it in the sense that Perl lets us do as little work [...]
Send your logs to the cloud; Loggly vs. Papertrail
Posted by dan in Commentary on 2011/11/17
Centralised cloud-based logging. It sounds tasty – and it is – but who should you go with? Well, Loggly and Papertrail are the only games in town when it comes to the aforementioned service; the only other competitor in this space is Splunk Storm, but their offering – well-pedigreed though it may be – is [...]
comparison, web service
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