Getting your elasticsearch cluster running is not so long. But now you have to properly monitor it. It can be down even if the server is still up and even the “java elasticsearch process”. Here is a nice monit conf grab from chef elasticsearch cookbook: check host elastics
Websocket are tcp connection independant from your web server / reverseproxy. So they need another tcp port. Its an issue if you are behind a firewall allowing only port 80 and you have only one ip or domain. But not really ! With haproxy tcp load balancer its super easy to have web s
» Linuxaria – Everything about GNU/Linux and Open source Glances a new system-monitor tool easy setup with python setup tools all in one top with better ui (focus on perf bottlenecks) i regret its not written in c (but python)
Facebook Scales Servers with Retooled Chef » Data Center Knowledge chef become the standard for configuration management adopted by Facebook now great news for the tool and its futur now chef can scale and be tested at large scale at Facebook
Howler.js: A Cross Browser JavaScript Audio Playback Library Supporting Audio Sprites – Badass JavaScript audio comes to browser ! HTML5 rocks ;) pure js (no outside javascripts) cool caching / sprites functions and other performance good practices handle multiple codecs for eac
Tweet ping yes, with dataviz we can make data appears sexy i think a one second buffer would be great to have a smoother progression this not firehose: only 2 companies on the world has access to all tweets in real time this type of geoviz (night + light) has a really cool effect tech
[BKRAFT/Articles] – Automating iTerm2 with Applescript iterm is a great tool term for mac with scripting you can automate opening windows, sessions, tabs you can write text as you typed it on your keyboard, ex: ssh myserer.com this is veyr handy if you want to open a lot of shel
Free Souls (Don’t LiVe to GeEk; GeEk to LiVe): Monitoring Solr, ElasticSearch using JMX and Ganglia Java application expose metrics thrue JMX. I’ve discovered this protocol working with cassandra. It should not be so tricky to push metrics to statsd, syslog or other protoc
