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I want a kill switch for all the electronic communications in the house. I'd like it to be a physical device, with a big red button, in my master bedroom. Kind of like how some people have a security console next to their beds, except mine would assist with mental safety. At midnight, BOOM, one of us hits the switch and no more internet, mobile phones or cable television for anyone in the household for the next 7-8 hours. The concern started with Taylor's …
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Today I made intermission public. As I mentioned in my post about mysql_role_swap we've been working hard to limit / eliminate the impact our operations maintenance tasks have on our customer's experience.
A few people noticed the /tmp/hold "leftover" in mysql_role_swap script. intermission is a product of that early exploration with coordinating database maintenance with request pausing in the web application tier. I've done a good bit of non production …
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We've come a long way in the last year in the way we operate our sites. We've stabilized our applications, improved their response time, and increased their availability.
To accomplish these improvements we've done a series of database maintenances that varied from upgraded hardware, to new database servers, to configuration changes that required restart. In each of these operations we had one common goal: minimize the interruption to our customers.
Today we are re …
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My name is Taylor ( Tai Loi) Luk and welcome to my personal blog, Here you will find more about projects that i am working on and things That i care.
About
I am residing in Sydney, Australia and starting a small company " Idealian" in late 2008, Since 2 years ago I started working on couple side projects, for the days to come, I going to take off the "side-project" label and they will be my primary focus.
Start a personal blog is something i wanted to do for …
…This video shows Mike playing Smiles on a Samsung " Taylor" prototype Windows Phone 7 device that we loaned him so he could properly test it.
Mike got the opportunity to deploy his app to a real live Windows Phone (hard to come by - you could cut off both your pinkies and still have enough fingers and toes to count all the Windows Phones we have) and the opportunity to show off his app at the Windows Phone 7 blogger night in Toronto and here on this blog because …
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…'s video of the game experience on one of the prototype phones - the Samsung " Taylor", which I have and which you might have seen at the last "Coffee and Code" event in Toronto :
Here's what Engadget had to say about the experience:
We'll preface this by saying that both the hardware and software we demoed was still unfinished (the latter being the Samsung Taylor dev phone and the LG QWERTY model we broke news of …
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…consisting of Anton, Eron, John, Matt, Will, and Taylor have worked tirelessly to eliminate interruptions and they deserve our applaud.
Since we count "scheduled" downtime the same as "unscheduled" (have you ever met a customer who cared about the difference?), that has meant making good progress on stuff like database migrations.
In the past, when we focused mainly on unscheduled downtime as a measure of success, we wouldn't think too much of taking a 30-minute …
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…monitoring and systems in place for notifying users of ongoing issues.
Overall I've been impressed with the high standard of work in the Operations group and I'll be doing my best to live up to it.
It's been an interesting and enjoyable first month with 37signals, largely thanks to everyone who's made me feel so welcome and valued, especially Taylor, John, Eron, Will and Anton. Thank you!
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Today Matt Kent started at 37signals as the sixth member of our operations team. Previously Matt worked for 10 years(!) at Bravenet as a System Administrator handling application deployment and scaling tasks. Some of Matt's managers and coworkers used phrases like "backbone of our team" and "a great person, and a fantastic engineer" to describe what working with Matt is like.
Recently Matt was selected as an Opscode MVP for his contributions …
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