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Dennis Ritchie Dead at 70

Posted on October 12, 2011 by Administrator

Dennis Ritchie died today at 70. Brian Kernighan, Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie are the biggest influences on my career, starting when I became aware of Unix in high school. I never had the chance to meet Dennis, but I … Continue reading →

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Silicon Valley Codecamp 2011

Posted on October 9, 2011 by Administrator

Silicon Valley Codecamp 2011 was held this weekend at Foothill College near San Jose. There were 209 sessions and 3,414 registered attendees. I did not attend, but have seen some of the talks at other conferences in the past year. … Continue reading →

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Redhat Buys Gluster

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Administrator

Redhat buying Gluster is one of the biggest news stories in storage this year – and for a paltry $136 million. List price for support was $4,000 to $11,000 annually per node, where a node is a server with possibly … Continue reading →

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Munin Plugin for MySQL Performance Hit and Miss Rates

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Administrator

Munin is an Open Source tool for monitoring servers. Here’s a plugin I wrote to calculate and display the performance of various MySQL read and write caches. You can download the plugin source here. Note that hit rates are seldom … Continue reading →

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Oracle Supports Hadoop

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Administrator

Block diagram of Oracle’s Big Data Appliance I can certainly see why Oracle database customers would want to know Oracle’s Hadoop support story. It remains to be seen how well Oracle can cooperate with the Apache Software Foundation and Open … Continue reading →

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