Fubaredness Is Contagious

What do you do when you come across a piece of open source software that you’d like to try? You could download its source code tarball, extract the files, build and install it following the rules and conventions for a given programming language (./configure && make && make install, ruby setup.rb build, python setup.py install, [...]

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Last month AWS released Reduced Redundancy Storage feature of S3. There were several aspects of this announcement that appeal to different people, but I especially appreciated one part – S3 now offers a choice of less availability for a lower price.
Availability of your system, just as any other part of your [...]

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If you are in IT, you probably noticed that most of the industry’s technical buzz lately has been centered around one of three huge areas – cloud computing, nosql and devops. Unlike Web 2.0 or Social Web, which are about content generation and content consumption models on the Internet, these three are actually about how [...]

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Designing a fully-automated or nearly-fully-automated computer system with many moving parts and dependencies is tricky, whether a system is distributed, hyper distributed or otherwise. Failures happen and must be dealt with. After a while, most folks grow up from “failures are rare and can be ignored” to “failures are not that rare and can not [...]

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As most of you probably know, I work at CohesiveFT where I focus on VPN-Cubed product. In short, it’s a solution to build overlay networks in third-party clouds. Overlay networks in this case are based on redundant encrypted point-to-point connections from your regular servers to your VPN-Cubed servers called “managers” (that you run in the [...]

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