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Comment on Heavyweight tilt : GitHub vs. Bitbucket by Colin

Colin — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 02:25:34 +0000

Yes, thank you so much. Really helpful!

Comment on Heavyweight tilt : GitHub vs. Bitbucket by dan

dan — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:59:35 +0000

Great – I’m glad that it helped !

Comment on Heavyweight tilt : GitHub vs. Bitbucket by Eider

Eider — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:10:33 +0000

Thank you. Very good post! It helped me a lot to decide.

Comment on CPAN RPMs in RHEL / CentOS : generation, conflict, and solutions by Ronald

Ronald — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 04:53:02 +0000

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Comment on Elasticsearch backup strategies by dan

dan — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 22:00:26 +0000

Yes, it assumes that the backup node is capable of managing the entire contents of the cluster, that is true. The link you posted is functionally a filesystem-based approach – it is, after all, simply rsync’ing the contents of the data folder. It’s not a bad approach, but the considerations regarding quorum and consistency still apply.

Comment on Elasticsearch backup strategies by Jamshid

Jamshid — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:22:52 +0000

This assumes your backup node has enough RAM and disk to store the entire cluster’s index, right? Seems the length of time to backup and restore would take too long to be practical with a large index. Then again, I don’t know if using something like the S3 gateway would be any faster or more reliable.

Haven’t tried it, but here’s another approach that suggests disabling flushing.
http://karussell.wordpress.com/2011/07/10/how-to-backup-elasticsearch-with-rsync/

Comment on Send your logs to the cloud; Loggly vs. Papertrail by dan

dan — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:17:53 +0000

Thanks for the comments !

Comment on Send your logs to the cloud; Loggly vs. Papertrail by Martin Cermak

Martin Cermak — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 23:06:32 +0000

Logentries https://logentries.com/

Loggr loggr.net

Comment on Send your logs to the cloud; Loggly vs. Papertrail by Alexis Lê-Quôc

Alexis Lê-Quôc — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:39:59 +0000

Hey Dan,

FWIW we use papertrail and we like it. Nice CLI, simple and well-executed.

As for our own app we indeed have a different take: we’ll happily consume “meaningful” events from papertrail/loggly so that they can be discussed, explained and correlated to other quantitative performance metrics. Something like: there’s a dip in my throughput, did I have any errors picked up by loggly/papertrail?

We’re in private beta, but I’m happy to dive deeper. Find us on freenode (#datadog) or hit me on googletalk (same as email).

Comment on setting the from address in GNU mail by dan

dan — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 10:30:30 +0000

I don't think you can do that with a single script file. You may wish to look at some proper mailing list management software, such as MailMan.