Operations magic cure: nightly server restarts
I hate to admit it, but it’s a well known fact that some people arrive at high availability by frequently rebooting their servers. As a developer I always abhored this idea. Good software should be able to stay up for a long time. At some point early in my 2 year tenure as CTO at [...]
The data center when you're 20, 30 and 40
I find it fascinating to contrast the attitudes of engineers and software execs when it comes to building data centers to run critical software. My non-scientific classification: When you’re in your twenties your mindset is: I’ll build some cool software, compile it and then deploy it. Where? Free hosting, or just slap on a machine [...]
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