Virtualization technologies have been around for a while in various forms and over the last several years the container style of virtualization has become popular as a complement (or replacement) to VMs (Virtual Machines / hypervisors). The first half of …
Four years ago, I wrote a blog post called
Introduction to Go Debugging with GDB
. At the time, the only option was the GNU debugger. Even the
official Go documentation
page on GDB doesn’t set the bar very high: …
Nowadays, it’s common to deploy multiple application servers, but it poses a very common problem; How are these application servers going to share the media files contributed by the users?
Cloud providers like Google, Rackspace or Amazon Web Services solve …
This post could have been titled, “How We Use OpenPGP to Protect Our Secrets.” All the use cases illustrated below use a tool called GnuPG to take care of the crypto details for us. GnuPG is a complete and free …
The most famous quote to characterize python speed is:
It is fast enough
I have used this quote many times, and I still believe that it applies to most circumstances if you throw enough hardware at the problem.
Despite Python …
Building a cluster in the cloud is becoming a mundane step that you have to do several times during the life cycle of a project. There are multiple driving forces behind this fact:
Initial set up
Redundancy
Setting up an …
Let’s Encrypt
is a new certificate authority. It is a huge improvement over the manual complex process of acquiring and deploying an HTTPS server. The process is now:
Free
Automatic (no more login to sites, filling forms, concatenating certificates)
This …
At Pycon in Montreal few weeks ago I attended a talk that blew my mind away and got me thinking:
Python concurrency from the Ground Up: LIVE!
by David Beazley. The video is available on
YouTube
.
The gist of …
Last week
Vitaly
and I migrated BotBot.me to new servers and also launched a redesign of the user account section. You can now support us by becoming a subscriber for $3/month and even log personal channels for $2/month. If you …
In the past month we worked to scale up
botbot.me
. Every few days the bot would get stuck in a deadlock situation that caused outage of the logging service. I had some time in front of me that I …