St. Winfrith's school choir there, with 'You ain't nothing but an atomic dog'

[hirez]

I am really quite tired, but it appears I will automate your cloud/VM infrastructure for food. Or money. Preferably money, now that I think about it.

Average-length week, shiny new learnings. Devops Borat is worryingly accurate.

Perhaps I should have saved that title for a more interesting post. Who can say?

Comments

[steer.livejournal.com]

Interesting, interesting... I've been doing some simulation/emulation on cloud VM/Infrastructures and monitoring of same. Would be useful to hear your experiences. The stuff I do is very theory/simulation/emulation experiments.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Not so much experiences as Fulmination Points.

Common-log format needs throwing away. Webservers should be emitting JSON, which gets hoofed up the wire to an analytics rig with lots of disk. That way, your VMs waste less disk and i/o bandwidth because they're writing/storing logs. And then also running out of disk less often and thus not bothering you at 4am.

You always monitor the wrong things. Or rather, you monitor a set of things and then fix the obvious breakages because you can now spot that deploy 'blah' made a CPU run hot so that's the place to start optimising the code. The next time something properly breaks, it's in a thing that you weren't looking at. So you instrument that bit too, and... Soon you are drinking from a firehose.

[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

Someone's been reading Allspaw.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Who?

[FX: Google]

Ah. Well, there you go.

[meltie.livejournal.com]

Ditto. I am paid to nod at buzzwords, then apply Perl or INDEXes. Same old.