Fubaredness Is Contagious

Are you thinking about using OpenDNS in your servers’ /etc/resolv.conf? Don’t. Why? Because when OpenDNS receives a query for a non-existing name, instead of returning NXDOMAIN (essentially name you’re looking for does not exist), it will return some IP, which probably is meant to catch typos, misspelt URLs or phishing attempts. Works great for humans [...]

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I recently wanted to compile Erlang (in order to install RabbitMQ) on a Linux box with old glibc (2.3.2, from days of Red Hat Linux 7.0). It was the only out-of-date component, everything else was quite fresh – GCC 4.3.3, binutils 2.19.1.
Version of Erlang I used was R12B-5. I configured it with ./configure –disable-x –enable-threads [...]

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I recently reached an interesting conclusion. When you are trying to eliminate a single point of failure from your architecture, it’s almost always beneficial to first go with a 2-way redundant solution (active-passive or active-active pair, whichever is easiest to implement) and only then go to N-way, N > 2, only if necessary.
One huge difference [...]

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To succeed, cloud interoperability must drive down costs for cloud computing vendors, both established and aspiring. This is how interop has been achieved throughout the history – look at car industry, railroads (selecting rail gauge), etc. Or check out Wikipedia article on Standardization in general. Indeed, for something to be adopted, it makes sense for [...]

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