ruminations : network monitoring (data collection part one)
network monitoring is, in theory, a relatively simple thing : watch X for Y conditions, and tell Z what you find. most systems break this down into collection, analysis, and alerting. today i’m looking...
View Articlebuilding a new mail server – planning
it has recently been heavily hinted to me that i might be tasked with building a new mail system soon, which got me thinking about how to do it better than i have before. i haven’t built a mail system...
View Articletaking the joyent plunge
i’ve been happy with my AWS instances that i’m running, but decided tonight to start up a joyent instance to see how that goes. so far i’m fairly disappointed with the documentation, but it isn’t any...
View ArticleUsing S3 as a File System
Ignoring for the fact that there are very good reasons not to do this (latency, eventual consistency, etc), using S3 buckets as filesystems actually fills a niche that AWS doesn’t currently even try....
View ArticleUsing Apache to redirect requests to CloudFront
If you have some static content you want to send to CloudFront, and you don’t want to redo all your hrefs to handle that for you, here’s a quick and dirty way to use Apache instead. First, setup your...
View ArticleMySQL Basic Auth for Apache on u14.04
Ubuntu 14.04 comes with Apache 2.4, rather than the 2.2 of 12.04, and as such has new bits that require some changes. I struggled for some time to get the database driven http authentication working...
View ArticleAWS CodeCommit with SourceTree
Hopefully this post will be quickly deprecated, but for now I wanted to get this down in case others have trouble like I did. I use SourceTree as my git client, and when testing the new AWS CodeCommit...
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