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Aug 11, 2010 · Databases Administration

Well I haven't really wrote anything in the last couple of months even though, I have had plenty to write about. I went to OSCON 2010 in July and had …

Mar 19, 2010 · Development

What's Thrift you ask? Well to quote their website. Thrift is a software framework for scalable cross-language services development. It combines a software stack with a code generation engine to …

Mar 12, 2010 · Databases Administration

And Cassandra wins by a knock out and the crowd goes wild. http://couchdb.apache xenical buy online.org/ vs.http://incubator.apache.org/cassandra/. Couchdb is more user friendly, but Cassandra is way more advanced.

Feb 12, 2010 · Databases Administration

The MySQL Workbench has been out for a little while now, and I kind of put it to the back of my mind, because when it come out it was …

Sep 29, 2009 · Databases Administration

"Do you hate starting on a new project and having to try to figure out someone else's idea of a database? Or are you in QA and the developers expect …

Sep 14, 2009 · System Administration

Nice and easy one line command. shell> cat /sys/class/scsi_host/host*/device/fc*/port_name

Sep 9, 2009 · Databases Administration

For the last month or so. There has been a debate amongst, my peers and I, on which is the better file system on Linux and how to benchmark and …

Aug 27, 2009 · System Administration

In many cases, the GRUB boot loader can mistakenly be deleted, corrupted, or replaced by other operating systems. The following steps detail the process on how GRUB is reinstalled on …

Aug 24, 2009 · System Administration

Cloud computing is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service over the Internet. Cloud computing can be confused with: grid …

Aug 16, 2009 · Databases Administration

This morning I was asked by one of the other Engineers in my group about an easy way to analyze all the tables in a database. So I pointed him …