We’re running separate zones for web, app, and db servers. To be able to know the health of our application and our servers, we rely on pnp4nagios for graphing performance data like CPU utilization, memory usage, etc. Using OpenSolaris zones, there is only one OS kernel running. This is different in e.g. XEN, where every [...]
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Testing Dash Metrics with Cucumber (Bradley Taylor) – A short article showing off a Cucumber feature for monitoring with Nagios.
Kanban vs. Scrum (Henrik Kniberg) – A great, 26 page long PDF about the similarities and differences between Scrum and Kanban. Absolutely worth reading!
Reconnoiter (Theo Schlossnagle) – Theo and his OmniTI Labs are working on a [...]
Read about my ideas for Test First in Operations at The Build Doctor.
Julian Simpson (@simpsonjulian) is “The Build Doctor”, or as he states it:
Blogger, professional build manager, systems administrator, caffiene addict, dad.
We already had the pleasure to publish his great post Partitions and Warfare. Check out Julians posts there. It’s worth it!
When you’re running any business critical application, you need to know what’s going on with it. Is it up? Does it cause extended load on your servers? Does it have enough disk space left, how fast is the data on the disk growing, etc.
To know all that, you need a tool which a) monitors and [...]
Have you ever taken a midnight drive down a dirt road without any headlights on? While its certainly a thrilling (and stupid) thing to do, I certainly wouldn’t recommend doing the same thing with your data center. Do you have any idea if the load your servers experienced this morning was unusually high? Could you [...]
