Fubaredness Is Contagious

Virtualization can also serve as software delivery medium. You know, like floppies, CDs and DVDs. You do sacrifice space and some CPU power, but get a controlled installation environment in exchange. This comes handy if a product you are trying to distribute takes some effort and knowledge to install correctly.
To illustrate this concept, I am [...]

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Almost everybody is familiar with better resource utilization as one of the benefits of virtualization. You can reduce the physical footprint (have fewer physical pieces of hardware) and still run the same number of “standalone” servers as before virtualization.
I think however that there is another huge benefit that doesn’t get as much attention – virtualization [...]

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LinkedIn finally offers personalized RSS feeds.

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Guido van Rossum, creator of Python programming language, published slides of his keynote at PyCon 2008 here.
A note to self: come back to to this link when it’s time to migrate to py3k.

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See an interesting discussion on benefits and shortcomings of “least used resource” mode of load balancing at High Scalability.
Here is what I think:
When dealing with TCP-based services (say http), my solution is not to use this load balancing mode at all precisely for this reason [you bring a new server online - and all of [...]

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