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Load testing with Locust
I wanted to perform some user load testing on the HTTP endpoint of our internal metrics collection system. After a bit of googling I decided to use Locust.I chose to use Locust over tools such as...
View Article→ A Tale of Postmortems | Box tech blog
Great post on the Box tech blog on how they deal with system outages, starting with how they used to deal with them and what they have done to improve things, which has now lead to less severe outages...
View ArticleManaging multiple versions of Java on OS X
I’m writing quite a bit of Java at the moment. Most of the time I can use Java 7, but unfortunately some must still be written in Java 6 as they need to run on old RedHat servers. Soon, I want to look...
View ArticleNew owner wanted for grunt-ssh
grunt-ssh is a small Grunt plugin that provides SSH and SFTP tasks using the excellent pure JS implementation of ssh2. Since I first released it in February 2013 it has been downloaded over 33,000...
View ArticleStrata + Hadoop World 2014
Last week I attended Strata + Hadoop World 2014 in New York. Here are some of my notes.SparkSpark was everywhere at the conference, and was mentioned in many of the talks I went to. It really seems to...
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24 hours in New York
After attending Strata + Hadoop World 2014, I had 24 hours of free time to look around New York. Here are some photos and comments.Times SquareStarted off at Times Square. Not sure what I thought of...
View ArticleBuilding HandBrake on OS X and linking it from Qt
I’ve spent hours today on this.Firstly, building libhandbrake from source on OS X. Here’s the steps that finally worked:# get the source git clone git@github.com:HandBrake/HandBrake.git cd HomeBrew #...
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QML2 to C++ and back again
Update 2014-11-23: I described an improved, but slightly more complicated way to do this in my post QML2 to C++ and back again, with slots and signals.Here’s a simple example of integrating QML2 and...
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Amateur garden design with SketchUp
We’re thinking of getting our front garden redone. I had a good idea of what I wanted, so had a play with SketchUp to see if I could draw it.When you open SketchUp it’s not really clear how to get...
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QML2 to C++ and back again, with signals and slots
Earlier this week, I posted an example of integrating QML2 and C++. In it I showed how to call a C++ method from QML, but finished my post with this statement.I’m still new to Qt, so this may not be...
View Article→ Game Day Exercises at Stripe
A really good article on how Stripe ran a game day testing exercise on one of their systems, and what they found.The two lessons I took from it:It’s important to run these destructive tests, so you...
View ArticleA standard to represent relative times
Say you have an application that collects data from a number of sources and stores it somewhere. Some of this data is only worth keeping for a certain amount of time, before it becomes worthless.So...
View ArticleWhat Color is Your Function?
An excellent essay by Bob Nystrom on the concepts of asyncronous programming, and how various programming languages apply these concepts.So, the next time you start telling me about some new hot...
View ArticleGetting started with Finagle
I’ve been looking at using Finagle as a web endpoint for a side project app. It seems perfect for it - very simple, very fast - so I will definitely be using it for this project, and likely others in...
View ArticleContainer Camp London 2015
Some notes after attending this years Container Camp in London. This got a bit long, so first a tl;dr with the highlights:sysdig looks awesome for monitoring and troubleshooting servers and the...
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Amazon S3 rewrite rule limit
I’m in the process of moving this site to Amazon S3, rather than hosting it myself on a VPS. Should save me around $10 a month, but more importantly mean I wont have to look after a server....
View ArticleManaging multiple versions of Java on OS X
I’m writing quite a bit of Java at the moment. Most of the time I can use Java 7, but unfortunately some must still be written in Java 6 as they need to run on old RedHat servers. Soon, I want to look...
View ArticleNew owner wanted for grunt-ssh
grunt-ssh is a small Grunt plugin that provides SSH and SFTP tasks using the excellent pure JS implementation of ssh2. Since I first released it in February 2013 it has been downloaded over 33,000...
View ArticleStrata + Hadoop World 2014
Last week I attended Strata + Hadoop World 2014 in New York. Here are some of my notes.SparkSpark was everywhere at the conference, and was mentioned in many of the talks I went to. It really seems to...
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24 hours in New York
After attending Strata + Hadoop World 2014, I had 24 hours of free time to look around New York. Here are some photos and comments.Times SquareStarted off at Times Square. Not sure what I thought of...
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