29 Posts tagged with linux
Scaling memcached at Facebook | Facebook
Since we’ve made all these changes, we have been able to scale memcached to handle 200,000 UDP requests per second with an average latency of 173 microseconds.
netboot.me
netboot.me is a service that allows you to boot nearly any operating system or utility on any computer with a wired internet connection - without having to know ahead of time what you'll want to boot. Once you can netboot.me, you never need to update your boot disk again!
Rosetta Stone for Unix
A Sysadmin's Unixersal Translator - or - What do they call that in this world?
LXC: Linux container tools
Containers - like Solaris Zones and BSD jails - for the linux kernel. Wild.
Gracie
Gracie is an OpenID server (a "provider" in OpenID terminology) that serves OpenID identities for the local system PAM accounts. It authenticates users with a username/password challenge.
Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
This standard consists of a set of requirements and guidelines for file and directory placement under UNIX-like operating systems. The guidelines are intended to support interoperability of applications, system administration tools, development tools, and scripts as well as greater uniformity of documentation for these systems.
Cft -- configuration file tracking.
Cft saves you from having to remember what exactly you changed on a system — it watches you and remembers for you, leaving you free to focus on the result you need to achieve.
Maatkit: a toolkit of utilities and tools for MySQL
Maatkit makes MySQL easier and safer to manage. It provides simple, predictable ways to do things you cannot otherwise do.
External Nodes - puppet
To use an external node classifier, in addition to or rather than having to define a node entry for each of your hosts, you need to create a script that can take a hostname as an argument and return information about that host for puppet to use.
Linux Ethernet Bonding Driver HOWTO
The Linux bonding driver provides a method for aggregating multiple network interfaces into a single logical "bonded" interface. The behavior of the bonded interfaces depends upon the mode; generally speaking, modes provide either hot standby or load balancing services.
pmacct
a small set of passive network monitoring tools to measure, account, classify, aggregate and export IPv4 and IPv6 traffic
RubyWorks production stack - from ThoughtWorks
RubyWorks production stack is a collection of open-source software required to host a RubyOnRails application on a RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 or CentOS 4 server
S3DFS for EC2 | openfount
"S3DFS is the product EC2 users have been waiting for - a true distributed file system for EC2, backed on S3." Woah. Maybe we don't need an XServe RAID...
Amazon Web Services Developer Connection : CentOS 4.4 Base Image
My blog will soon be moving to Amazon EC2, powered by one of these.
Ubuntu Studio - A multimedia creation derivative of Ubuntu
Perfect for your Ubuntu recording studio box. What, you don't have one?