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All | 2015-01-06
Understanding reservations, concurrency, and locking in NovaImagine that two colleagues, Alice and Bob, issue a command to launch a new virtual machine at approximately the same moment in time. Both Alice’s and Bob’s virtual machines must […]
All | 2014-09-30
So, What is the Core of OpenStack?In a conversation on Twitter, Lydia Leong stated something that I’ve heard from a number of industry folks and OpenStack insiders alike: The core needs to be small, rock-solid stable, […]
All | 2013-06-10
Pushing revisions to a Gerrit code reviewMartin Stoyanov recently asked an excellent question about the proper way to push revisions to a changeset in Gerrit. This is a very common question that folks new to Gerrit […]
All | 2012-05-16
Upgrade to Xubuntu 12.04 – All Keyboard Shortcuts Don’t WorkSeriously, Ubuntu, upgrading between versions has become just painful… I waited a few weeks before I upgraded from Xubuntu 11.10 to 12.04 because the upgrade last time completely hosed my […]
All | 2012-03-30
OpenStack L.A. Meetup – The TryStack SlidesHad a blast with the gang from Dreamhost last night at the inaugural OpenStack Meetup in Los Angeles. Thanks to all who attended and asked some great questions 🙂 Here […]
All | 2010-04-13
Slides from Developing Drizzle Replication Plugins TutorialHi all! So, Padraig, Toru, and myself teamed up yesterday at the MySQL Conference for about thirty or so attendees to discuss developing Drizzle plugins in C++. It was a […]
All | 2010-03-14
Is Anyone Else Looking Forward To……the new Clash of the Titans movie, coming out soon? I loved the original back in 1981. Can’t wait to see this one. 🙂 I would have linked to the […]
All | 2010-03-14
O’Gara Cloud Computing Article Off BaseMaureen O’Gara, self-described as “the most read technology reporter for the past 20 years”, has written an article about Drizzle at Rackspace for one of Sys-con’s online zines called Cloud […]
All | 2010-03-11
jpipes.com is now joinfu.comAs you may have noticed, my blog has changed. No more old and busted serendipity 0.9. Hello WordPress 2.9. Yeah \0/ It was a manual data transformation I had to […]
All | 2010-03-08
An SQL Puzzle?Dear Lazy Web, What should the result of the SELECT be below? Assume InnoDB for all storage engines. CREATE TABLE t1 (a INT, b INT); INSERT INTO t1 VALUES (1,1),(1,2); […]