HOW TO : Use templates in puppet to pass hostnames
puppet, is a configuration management framework that can be used to perform several different things to validate/configure your infrastructure. We have been using puppet for sometime...
HOW TO : Configure Jboss to append log files instead of overwriting them
If you use the default logging options for Jboss, it has a nasty habit of overwriting log files on a restart. So, if you were in...
Project Uptime : Recap
Final post on Project Uptime. Before I go into the details of how well I fared against the original goals, here is a screenshot of the...
Overheard : Comment about trust
Said by Dan Kaminsky at the Forensecure’12 conference If you trust everything, you might as well not trust anybody For the record.. In addition to being...
Project Uptime : Progress Report 7 : Putting the finishing touches
We finally come to one of the last posts of Project Uptime. Now that all the components have been setup, I finally copied the wordpress directory...
HOW TO : Configure Jboss to use hugepages in RHEL/CentOS
Most of us worry about paging to disk (swap), but if you are running a transaction intensive application the paging that happens in RAM also starts...