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nomadlogic | 6 years ago | on: Twitter was down

yea as an ops engineer that's probably the worst violation of trust i've ever heard of.

nomadlogic | 7 years ago | on: FreeBSD gets pNFS support

I could see a use for both - using Lustre as a shared SAN for their flame/smoke/etc suites and using pNFS for workstation/render-node shared storage. at least that's how i've deployed things in the past.

i could see this replacing isilon (which is built on freebsd) for the later use-case :)

nomadlogic | 8 years ago | on: FreeBSD/EC2 on C5 instances

NVMe supports SR-IOV much in the same way that NICs do - which i suspect is how AWS is delivering "physical" NICs to VMs currently. So its a pretty safe bet that this is how NVMe devices are being delivered to guest Vm's.

nomadlogic | 8 years ago | on: FreeBSD/EC2 on C5 instances

thus spoke the manual nvme(4): "The nvme driver creates controller device nodes in the format /dev/nvmeX and namespace device nodes in the format /dev/nvmeXnsY."

it's been a while since i've had access to nvme gear but it "just worked" at the time - although my use case was for a a daemon that accessed the block device directly to do its own horrible things to it.

nomadlogic | 10 years ago | on: Comparing Java GC Collectors

also i was unable to find a reference to the version/build of java the author was using - thus negating any numbers/benchmarks presented.

nomadlogic | 11 years ago | on: Docker closes $40M Series C led by Sequoia

Trying not to be a curmudgeon - but I really don't see what the big fuss is about, or how docker is fundamentally changing anything.

Not to take anything away from docker being a decent tool in some circumstances - but really this methodology has been around in one implementation for ages on Unix platforms.

nomadlogic | 12 years ago | on: Silicon Valley Billionaire Battles Surfers Over Beach Access

Well that explanation IMHO is just another argument as to how people in these positions have zero regard for shared spaces and others in general. I reckon the valleywag has a pretty funny response to that self serving article he wrote.

I'm not going to start a bikeshed over the technicalities covered in the coastal commission report though - my original point was how little regard many of these individuals have for others. And how no one should really be surprised that the technology community seems to represent the worst case examples of this.

nomadlogic | 12 years ago | on: PS4's LLVM-based Developer Toolchain [pdf]

Wonder how big of a factor that the upstream PS4 OS codebase now using LLVM/Clang was in this decision. Even if the PS4 wasn't FreeBSD based I can see the switch making sense on it's own tbh.

nomadlogic | 13 years ago | on: The Linux kernel MultiPath TCP project

I vouch for it being used in a very high-profile, highly concurrent online service with great results.

In this particular case we owned both the client and server-side networking libraries - but all-in-all it worked quite well and helped us deal with NAT traversal issues among other things.

nomadlogic | 13 years ago | on: No email at AngelList

i reckon this is clearly intended for non-technical business/sales people. from an software/systems engineering perspective i feel that one of the primary benefits of email is its async behaviour.

unlike IRC/IM/video/telephone/face-to-face interactions, which happen in realtime, email provides an opportunity for reflecting on conversations and responses, while also allowing people in diverse geographic areas to take part in the natural flow of a conversation.

couple this with the fact that pretty much anyone can run a mail server and communicate with any other person on the internet - i am not sure how abandoning email communication for closed systems like yammer/facebook for near-time communication would be a net positive.

having said that - adding these tools to your suite of communication formats is clearly a good thing.

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