The slides and accompanying document of the High availability deep dive tutorial have all been uploaded and can be downloaded from the link below:
http://box.com/perconalive2012
For the slides, you'll find a PDF and a pptx version, the gdocs animations works somewhat OK with pptx. Also, the VMs will stay available from a at least few months from here:
Virtualbox: http://ubuntuone.com/01mJtfGDc2QbxB9eaOqcWc
Xen and VMWare: http://ubuntuone.com/3nikxumH483slq8rfP73iZ
…way of implementing the whole system is break things down to separate VM's in a VmWare system.
1. OakCapture - 1 VM per major Trunk (One Per - Multiple DS1, One DS3)
2. OakGui - 1 VM For system - For reference/admin control only
3. Database - In a call center, a Oracle or DB2 may be better suited, depending on the company
4. VoiceCenterManager - A Rails Server using Nginx/ Passenger that provides interfaces to agents, supervisors, audit,
and managers. Number …
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If you're a fan/employee of Salesforce/Heroku or VMWare/ CloudFoundry or other platform, can I please ask for your help to make the current set of scrolls work? I'll pair with you to get you started if you need it; though I think the code base and the scrolls are relatively self explanatory.
Isn't this like Rails Wizard?
Yes! Before the App Scrolls, there was Michael Bleigh's Rails Wizard . He created the first version during the 2010 Rails Rumble …
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…Florian took care of the Libvirt/KVM (or Libvirt/Qemu) and VMware images for you while I has prepared virtual appliances for VirtualBox. The download links are here:
VirtualBox virtual appliances (tarball): http://ubuntuone.com/01mJtfGDc2QbxB9eaOqcWc
Libvirt and VMware images and configuration files (bzipped tarball): http://ubuntuone.com/3nikxumH483slq8rfP73iZ
If one of those links produces a 404 for you, then that means it isn't fully synced yet, and you should just …
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…but for now you may want to skip that route and stick to AWS, Rackspace, VMware, and other solutions that currently work, are actively tested against, and see production usage.
The last question that had popped up a few times was, " Why would I use Cloud Foundry instead of Heroku, EngineYard, AppHardbor, or X PaaS Service Provider? " If you're using one of those services, you probably would not want or need to use Cloud Foundry. However, Cloud Foundry provides …
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…Service ( PaaS) called CloudFoundry . VMware initiated this product with wide OSS industry support. By far this PaaS offering is one of the most open, but also provides some of the widest support of any PaaS product on the market. CloudFoundry provides many technology frameworks to build with, while preventing lock-in to any single infrastructure platform, hardware provider or vendor.
What Does a PaaS Do For Your Software Development Efforts?
Before modern PaaS, software …
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…- Last year I was still using the Windows version of Audition in VMWare. The Mac version finally shipped and it is great. It's got those typical weird Adobe interface issues, but I wouldn't recommend another multitrack editor over this one. It's a great workflow.
Capo : I took the time this year to learn to play the guitar. By learn, I mean I started scouring YouTube and Google to figure out how to play songs I like on it. Capo is a great addition …
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…MagLev is an interesting Ruby implementation and virtual machine built by VMware's GemStone Systems division that orients itself around a novel object persistence layer. The best part? It's open source and MIT licensed. Expect to see more about this soon.
Ruby 1.9.1 is Dying ( Support Ends Jan 31, 2012)
In a post to the ruby-core mailing list, Ruby 1.9 release manager Yuki Sonoda explains that Ruby 1.9.1 will get no official security fixes or releases after …
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DevOps Cafe #19 ( Audio Transcript)
Damon Edwards: Hello, everybody. Welcome to another episode of DevOps Café. I'm Damon Edwards, coming to you today from Los Angeles.
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