Cloud Computing and your company's infrastructure
Bold forecast :).. But in 5 to 10 years, I predict the majority of a company’s infrastructure will be hosted in a “cloud”. If you recall...
Technology
What does it mean to be a "Proactive IT Team"?
This picture (credited to Uptime Software) shows how you can classify outages so that you know which ones to tackle first. A very good way to...
HOW TO : Run commands at regular intervals in Linux
There are several ways to run commands repetively in Linux.. (cron, while loop etc). Here is a simple trick. Say you want to check the size...
HOW TO : Check status of bond interface in Linux
For my notes.. If you ever wanted to check the status of a bonded interface configure in Linux (esp RHEL), you can check the status by...
Lessons of the Trade : Purging Databases
We ran into an interesting issue at work recently. Documenting the solution for my records.. BACKGROUND : We had a table in one of our databases...
What happens when you get busy (lazy)?
Your site goes down 🙂 And traffic to the site drops!! Things have been a bit crazy at work recently, so I didn’t get a chance...