Category Archives: Geekstuff

Inside the Nova service framework

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Joe

In my previous spelunking article, I went over the basic pieces needed to get a nova service stood up. Well okay – I skipped logging – maybe another article later for that later… Quick recap: The service framework in nova … Continue reading →

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Benchmarking Celery

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Joe

Before you even go there, I’ll preface this with YMMV. This little post is to document a benchmark that I did for an internal use case, in the hopes that it’ll be helpful for others. As a benchmark, I wasn’t … Continue reading →

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Spelunking Nova – flags and services

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Joe

I’ve been doing a lot of spelunking into the nova codebase, digging around and trying to learn some of the under pinnings. Some of these pieces were a bit confusing to me, so I’m stashing them up here for Google … Continue reading →

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Sunny summer mornings

Posted on June 26, 2011 by Joe

Its been ages since I wrote here, and its time to get back into that a bit. Since January I’ve switched jobs, which I have found to be immensely refreshing. My teams at Disney accomplished truely amazing things, including an … Continue reading →

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javascript everywhere

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Joe

There’s an interesting fast iteration in language efforts happening around javascript. It’s been pretty much dominating the client side arena for ages, started to make some interesting headway into server side with Node.js, but now I am starting to see … Continue reading →

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A week with the fitbit

Posted on January 23, 2011 by Joe

I first heard about fitbit from a coworker who used it to track his daily running and activity. He showed it to me, and it’s a pedometer with a bit more – it wireless sync’s to a base station (laptop … Continue reading →

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jquerymobile and having design constraints

Posted on November 27, 2010 by Joe

I’ve been working on this idea/project called Eyes for the past year on and off. Maybe for the past 4 to 6 months I’ve been stymied by what I want the visual representation to look like, struggling with the options … Continue reading →

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Eyes – a new monitoring system

Posted on November 20, 2010 by Joe

It was over a year ago that I started getting really annoyed at the state of monitoring systems. They all do what you sort of expect a monitoring system to do – watch (poll) systems and alert you when something’s … Continue reading →

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Nearly at the top of that first hill

Posted on November 13, 2010 by Joe

I’ve been thinking about the past week at the OpenStack Design Summit (Bexar) solidly from last night (flying home from San Antonio, TX) through the various errands I’ve been running today. This morning Rick Clark tweeted “A question about OpenStack”. … Continue reading →

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more always on applications … in the cloud

Posted on September 20, 2010 by Joe

I took the “always on application” and ran through some numbers this evening. I was curious – with the hosting options available today, what would it cost someone to run an “always on” application. The way I’m thinking about it, … Continue reading →

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