devopsdays Hamburg 2010

Monday, 10. 18. 2010  –  Category: conference

Recently back from devopsdays in Hamburg. Here’s a quick braindump whilst it’s all still fresh. People I went with a bunch of colleagues from the BBC, hooked up with some people I’d not seen for ages, unexpectedly met in real life people I’d worked with online previously and met a whole load of talented and […]

Getting paranoid about ssh-agent

Wednesday, 09. 1. 2010  –  Category: vague

A colleague asked me about my SSH setup, which uses different SSH agents for each set of keys that I use (I tend to use a different keypair for each client I work with) and also makes ssh-agent confirm with me each time a key is used. What’s the point of all that? Because it’s […]

cron

Wednesday, 02. 24. 2010  –  Category: sw

Obviously cron jobs are abundantly useful for so many things, all the way from basic housekeeping up to big application functionality. They’re also the source of plenty of flail. What do I mean? They are neither code nor data, so often get overlooked, or shonkily installed, by application deployment tools They run with a minimal […]