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 a great time. I learned more about MongoDB and picked up a few more bits of information on MySQL, Memcached, and Linux. In July I…
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Building Thrift on RedHat/CentOS 5.x
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 build services that work efficiently and seamlessly between C++, Java, Python, PHP, Ruby, Erlang, Perl, Haskell, C#, Cocoa, Smalltalk, and OCaml. And why do I…
Couchdb vs. Cassandra.
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.
MySQL Workbench..
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 on Windows only. I, myself use Linux about 90% of the time, so I figured I would wait until they had a Linux version. The…
SchemaSpy
“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 you to understand all the relationships in their schema? If so then this tool’s for you.” This is actually really nice and fast. Also makes…
Finding the HBA WWN on RHEL 5.x
Nice and easy one line command. shell> cat /sys/class/scsi_host/host*/device/fc*/port_name
So many to choose from.
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 test it. So digging through my back log of emails I notice that Linux Magazine was running a series on the this some topic. So…
Reinstalling the Boot Loader on RHEL
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 the master boot record: Boot the system from an installation boot medium. Type linux rescue at the installation boot prompt to enter the rescue environment…
Cloud computing
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 computing—”a form of distributed computing whereby a ‘super and virtual computer’ is composed of a cluster of networked, loosely coupled computers, acting in concert to…
MySQL Table Maintenance.
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 to mysqlcheck. Which is a great command line client for performing table mainteneance on mysql database tables. It checks, repairs, optimizes, or analyzes tables, all…