End-to-End Monitoring Improves Team Communication
Today Manheim relies on New Relic to monitor Manheim.com, Simulcast Everywhere and OVE.com, along with the mobile versions of those properties. The Operations team consults a dashboard to keep an eye on performance, alerting the Development group when an issue emerges. Then engineers use the Transaction Traces feature to dig deeper into the root of a problem. "The Ops team has New Relic up and running all …
…. In addition, we will push new features to the beta branch as soon as they are stable enough for real-world applications. But, if you are fascinated (like we are) with bright, shiny, and new things you can always check out our current development version .
On behalf of the Sphinx Team we would like to thank you for use of the Sphinx Engine and wish you a Happy New Year!
- MySQL Performance Blog: Sphinx 2.0.2 Beta is released, Sphinx Users Conference in December
- Ruby Fleebie: 5 Plugins Or Gems You Could Not Live Without
- Locomotivation: Mulling Over Our Ruby on Rails Full Text Search Options
- brant interactive: Project review: ifwinsight.com
- techno weenie: Background Jobs Reloaded
- Freelancing Gods: Searching with Sphinx on Heroku
Shopify developers aren't nine-to-fivers who stop programming when the clock reads 4:59 p.m.. They're the sort of geek who eats, drinks and breathes code, and when they're not working on Shopify, they've got some interesting tech projects on the side.
Jesse Storimer is one of Shopify's developers, and he's just self-published an ebook titled Working with Unix Processes: Become the Unix Guru that Every Team Needs .
Here's his explanation of what the book's about:
- paperplanes: Web Operations 101 For Developers
- JJinuxLand: Software Engineering: Coping When You Must Repeat Yourself
- Ruby News: Red Dirt RubyConf 2010
- Testing 1,2,3...: Why not use FFI? Here's why.
- starjuice - Home: FreeBSD Decaf
- igvita.com: HTTP PubSub: Webhooks & PubSubHubbub
Jeremy Cole , a DBA Team Lead/ Database Architect at Twitter, gave a really good talk at the O'Reilly MySQL conference: Big and Small Data at @ Twitter , where the topic was thinking of Twitter from the data perspective.
One of the interesting stories he told was of the transition from Twitter's old way of storing tweets using temporal sharding , to a more distributed approach using a new tweet store called T-bird, which is built on top of Gizzard , which is built using MySQL.
- New Relic: Where to Find New Relic on the WWW
- A Fresh Cup: My Tools of the Trade - 2011
- Mislav's blog: Faraday: advanced HTTP requests made easy
- gnuu.org: Exposing the Right Details: A Tale of Two Audiences
- danwebb.net - Home: It's About The Hashbangs
- The Majestic Sea Creature: Loose Tweets Sink Fleets
…questions.
Our Friday afternoon review session:
Product Owner and Team - demo all completed stories.
Team - Review estimates from the sprint and note down how you went and how you can improve (if target not met).
Team - Review points missed from the sprint and why, and how you can improve on that for next sprint.
If you're running sprints in your organisation do you do things a little differently? Drop us a line in the comments.
- Luigi Montanez: Mouseless Monday #2 - Keyboard-Friendly Web Apps
- 80beans: Working with stories
- Intridea - Company Blog: Intridea Insider: Thadd Selden
- Blue Box Group: News: Railsconf party
- The Curiosity Project: The Tools I Use
- Jason Seifer: Live blogging BizConf Day 2
Sphinx Team also announced Sphinx Users Conference in St. Petersburg, Russia on December 4th. This is going to be free Russian Speaking event.
This is the second Sphinx event in Russia and I really wish there would be and International Sphinx Conference somewhere in US or Western Europe. I hope we'll see something like it in 2012.
Another thought - with Innodb Full Text Search coming up in MySQL 5.6 and Claimed to be faster than MyISAM's I …
- Freelancing Gods: Searching with Sphinx on Heroku
- Plataformatec Blog: Outpost v0.1.0 is released!
- Diego Carrion: Full text search in JRuby with ActiveLucene
- Trevor Turk: Weekly Digest, 8-29-09
- » Product Launch Blog: Unit Testing Sphinx
- Fun With Radiant: RadiantCasts episode 22 - Sphinx Search Extension
Aaron Patterson (of the MRI Ruby Core Team) Explains
In his talk at RubyKaigi , Aaron tenderlove Patterson spoke about working out which parts of Ruby are 'third party libraries' and how to extract them. After such extraction, Ruby core should be able to commit to or change anything within MRI, but also reference third party gems that are included and installed by default on new installations. Aaron noted that being able to 'iterate faster' was …
- Merbist: Ruby object allocation & why you should care
- Trevor Turk: Weekly Digest, 12-11-09
- Bamboo Blog: Translation of Matz Q&A article after joining Heroku
- Jake Scruggs: Ruby Kaigi 2010 Day 1
- Mike Perham: Contributing to Ruby
- Scottish Ruby Conference: 2012
…Internet F**kwad Theory . Two great examples of this are Counter-Strike and Team Fortress. Both games are more than ten years old, but they're still actively being played right now, by tens of thousands of people, all anonymous ... and playing as cohesive teams!
The game's objectives and rules are all cleverly constructed to make working together the most effective way to win. None of these players know each other; the design of the game forces players to work together, …
- Coding Horror: For a Bit of Colored Ribbon
- Labnotes: Rounded Corners 264 — Chaos Monkey
- Envy Labs: Code School Course Evolution
- ZURB: UX Playing Catch Up With Persuasive Technology
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Help Send Engine Yard to Austin for SXSW
- Giles Bowkett: Current Projects: Twitter Newspaper & Automated Refactoring
…worldwide for most of positions, so if you're interested joining Percona Team, come and talk to me. We have both technical and non technical positions, in particular we're looking for Sales and Business Development person in Russia.
Why so late announcement. Ah if you must know I did not know if I will be able to make it until very last minute. My passport was stalled in the British Consulate getting visa to UK for Percona Live London in …
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: 5 subtle ways you're using MySQL as a queue, and why it'll bite you
Good on Brandon Watson of the Windows Phone Team for seizing an opportunity offering free Windows Phone 7s to WebOS developers. I may occasionally complain that Microsoft has trouble trying unorthodox things or deviating from MBA-proscribed plans, but that's rarely been the case with the Windows Phone 7 team and the Windows Phone 7 Champs (of which I was a proud member).
- Global Nerdy: Why I'm Not a Windows Phone Developer [Updated]
- carpeaqua by Justin Williams: From iPhone to Windows Phone 7
- Brian's Tech Blog: Mobile Ruby - cool stuff
- Signal vs. Noise: Product Blog update: tons of new Extras, Basecamp for beginners, a funny Campfire video, and more
- RubyLearning Blog: Want To Build A Mobile App On An Android™ Phone With Rhodes?
- A Piece of Our Mind: The MetaSpring Blog Carnival: Issue 7 - Web Development