Every now and then, silver bullets work. For as long as I have been at Jobster, we have had issues with high CPU loads on our Oracle 10g server. We’ve been slowly working on it, finding inefficient queries and pages and fixing them. But on Monday, we really were on the edge. Our CPU usage [...]
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When Open Source Is Bad
I run Ubuntu Linux on my machine at work. If I need to create a spreadsheet or word document, I either need to use OpenOffice.org or remote desktop into a Windows machine. Both options are not appealing.
In many cases, open source projects are better than their commercial equivalent. But not always. There are examples [...]
Sun Makes a Portable Computer
This is the coolest portable computer ever.
I mean, portable data center. I love it. I’m sure we could use one at Jobster…
Two Days and Counting
Only two days to go until the return of the best show on TV: Battlestar Galactica. I just picked up Season 2.5 on DVD and have been watching them as a run up to the season premiere. The ending to last season was very risky. I have some doubts on whether they can pull it [...]
The REST Way
Part of my job lately has been to look at how our service is architected. We have a mix of Java and Rails applications but these are not exactly what people call web services. We know we want to turn more of our functions into services but in what way?
I had heard of REST but [...]