sebastianbergmann/php-project-wizard - GitHub
"The PHP Project Wizard (PPW) is a commandline tool that can be used to generate the scripts and configuration files necessary for the build automation of a PHP project."
Archives (2008 - 2023)
Puppet - Puppet Best Practice - Puppet Labs
To effectively maintain a large number of systems, Puppet is essential to keep the systems in a consistent state. Often, Puppet manifests will be written by multiple system administrators to manage several dozen types of systems. These standards and best practices are presented here as an evolving effort to document and architect the Puppet service in a manageable fashion in such a large environment. One should also review the Style Guide .
These best practices were developed at Stanford University with contributions from the greater Puppet community and represent the embodiment of two years of Puppet infrastructure deployment and management.
Homepage
Throughout this site I’ll attempt to answer task driven questions and provide somewhere that I can point people to in the future.
Deep Shah's Blog: How to find the real culprit using GIT bisect
What I knew for sure was that, at revision HEAD - 20 the feature was working for sure. So many files must have changed between revision HEAD - 20 and HEAD. How to find the real culprit is the question?
Puppet - Debian Preseed Patterns - Puppet Labs
We can use a preseed file which is a list of responses that debconf can use to configure a package.
Webdis, an HTTP interface for Redis with JSON output
Webdis is a simple HTTP server which forwards commands to Redis and sends the reply back using a format of your choice. Accessing /COMMAND/arg0/arg1/.../argN[.ext] on Webdis executes the command on Redis and returns the response; the reply format can be changed with the optional extension (.json, .txt…)
Template for Hudson Jobs for PHP Projects
Hudson is the leading open-source continuous integration server. Thanks to its thriving plugin ecosystem, it supports building and testing virtually any project. The goal of this project is to provide a standard template for Hudson jobs for PHP projects.
phpmemcacheadmin - Project Hosting on Google Code
Graphic stand-alone administration for memcached to monitor and debug purpose This program allows to see in real-time (top-like) or from the start of the server, stats for get, set, delete, increment, decrement, evictions, reclaimed, cas command, as well as server stats (network, items, server version) with googlecharts
You can go further to see each server slabs, occupation, memory wasted and items (key & value).
How Facebook Ships Code « FrameThink – Frameworks for Thinking People
"I hope that releasing these notes will help shed some light on how Facebook has managed to push decision-making “down” in its organization without descending into chaos… It’s hard to argue with Facebook’s results or the coherence of Facebook’s product offerings. I think and hope that many consumer internet companies can learn from Facebook’s example."
etckeeper
etckeeper is a collection of tools to let /etc be stored in a git, mercurial, darcs, or bzr repository. It hooks into apt (and other package managers including yum and pacman-g2) to automatically commit changes made to /etc during package upgrades. It tracks file metadata that revison control systems do not normally support, but that is important for /etc, such as the permissions of /etc/shadow. It's quite modular and configurable, while also being simple to use if you understand the basics of working with revision control.
Socket.IO: the cross-browser WebSocket for realtime apps.
"Socket.IO aims to make realtime apps possible in every browser and mobile device, blurring the differences between the different transport mechanisms."
Centralised logging with rsyslog | Canonical
The management of multiple systems requires the setup of tools to control the servers behaviour in real time and post analysis. Moreover, regulations and best practices often require the IT department to maintain an accurate log of all events happening in their systems in order to allow for later analysis. Performing such analysis on each system is time consuming and is relatively insecure because if a server is compromised, the attacker, having gained root access, will be able to cover its traces by removing the portions of the logs that he wants.
asenchi/proclaim - GitHub
Conditionally roll out features with Redis.
Mining Wikipedia with Hadoop and Pig for Natural Language Processing, Nuxeo Developers Blog
"Here is a 4 minute demo that explains how such a semantic engine can be used by a document management system such as Nuxeo DM to tag documents with entities instead of potentially ambiguous words:"
this, is boomerang
"boomerang is a piece of javascript that you add to your web pages, where it measures the performance of your website from your end user's point of view. It has the ability to send this data back to your server for further analysis. With boomerang, you find out exactly how fast your users think your site is.
boomerang is opensource and released under the BSD license, and we have a whole bunch of documentation about it. "
What does Librato Silverline do? / Getting Started / FAQs - librato Support
Silverline is a lightweight, application-centric virtualization solution for Linux and Windows that enables you to systematically monitor and control all your disparate applications and workloads in both cloud and physical data center environments. Through Silverline's monitoring and workload management you can:
Consolidate different applications on the same shared machines, increasing overall resource utilization and reducing total cost of ownership (TCO). Guarantee service level agreements (SLAs) for consolidated applications by ensuring that specified minimum resource allocations are dedicated to each application. Improve machine utilization by dynamically sharing out unused resources to applications that can benefit from additional capacity. Provide fine-grained tracking of machine utilization to accurately understand which of your customers impact your infrastructure the most and bill business unit customers for IT-managed resources.
Earned value management - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Earned value management (EVM) is a project management technique for measuring project progress in an objective manner. EVM has the ability to combine measurements of scope, schedule, and cost in a single integrated system. When properly applied, EVM provides an early warning of performance problems. Additionally, EVM promises to improve the definition of project scope, prevent scope creep, communicate objective progress to stakeholders, and keep the project team focused on achieving progress.
Git Immersion Labs
How Twitter Uses NoSQL - ReadWriteCloud
Weil is quick to point out that Twitter is heavily dependent on MySQL. However, Twitter does employ NoSQL solutions for many purposes for which MySQL isn't ideal. According to Weil, Twitter users generate 12 terrabytes of data a day - about four petabytes per year. And that amount is multiplying every year. Read on for our notes on Weil's talk.
Zombie.js
Insanely fast, headless full-stack testing using Node.js
niceload - slow down a program when the load average is above a certain limit
slow down a program when the load average is above a certain limit
openssh-lpk - Project Hosting on Google Code
The OpenSSH LDAP Public Key patch provides an easy way of centralizing strong user authentication by using an LDAP server for retrieving public keys instead of ~/.ssh/authorized_keys.
Cloudera’s Distribution for Hadoop « Cloudera » Apache Hadoop for the Enterprise
Cloudera’s Distribution for Hadoop (CDH) sets a new standard for Hadoop-based data management platforms. It is the most comprehensive platform available today and significantly accelerates deployment of Apache Hadoop in your organization. CDH is based on the most recent stable version of Apache Hadoop. It includes some useful patches backported from future releases, as well as improvements we have developed for our customers.
AngularJS
is what HTML would have been if it had been designed for building web applications. It provides your application’s plumbing so you can focus on what your app does, rather than how to get your web browser to do what you need.
Technical Debt - 10x Software Development
MF Bliki: TechnicalDebt
MF Bliki: TechnicalDebtQuadrant
Coding Horror: Paying Down Your Technical Debt
I believe that accruing technical debt is unavoidable on any real software project. Sure, you refactor as you go, and incorporate improvements when you can -- but it's impossible to predict exactly how those key decisions you made early on in the project are going to play out. All you can do is roll with the punches, and budget some time into the schedule to periodically pay down your technical debt.
keploy - Project Hosting on Google Code
Keploy is a python application that allows you to deploy your ssh public key to remote systems without having to remember all the little things, like file permissions.
Features: Push ssh public key to remote(s) Remove ssh public key from remote(s) Replace old public key with a new one on remote(s) Can target all hosts in un-hashed known_hosts file
10+ Deploys Per Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation at Flickr