There is an interesting article on TechCrunch I wanted to comment but, unfortunately, I had to work so hard the last three days I had no time to put this on paper!
It’s an unfiltered (presumably) insight of a London’s VC expert that claims European start-ups are not working hard enough as their Silicon Valley’s...
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Great! What the IT world might have been without Dilbert (and Userfriendly too…)
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I am a lucky chap.
I received this e-mail on Friday saying that “@botchagalupe is in town, feel like a beer together?”.
Botchagalupe aka John Willis is one of the best known Cloud evangelists and a legend in System Management; he is actually “involved” with Canonical and spreading the word on agility and life-cycle management on...
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This morning, while writing on another post, I noticed that Alexa updated my rank to 2,9 millionth something. Well, that’s a milestone, two months ago I was in the range of 5 millionth.. Something improved somewhere.
Or not?
How Alexa works is a matter of guesswork and ranks are dependent on people installing Alexa Toolbar in...
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UPDATED.
It happens, once that one does something wrong without knowing where he is making a mistake..
This is what happened yesterday when I used mysqlslap test banch on an Amazon RDS machine.
The problem is that mysqlslap does not measure query performance, rather connection performance. It is heavily influenced by latency and networking speed. Now, consider...
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Great service Amazon RDS.
It’s on my to-do list to evaluate it from a performance-wise perspective. The evaluation is a must as AWS is known to have steady but slow storage performance, I wonder if the RDS team did tweak their volumes.
But this is not the subject of the post:the fact is, there are two...
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