The RDBMS Misconception That Less is More
It’s commonly held that normalization is a good thing. And it is. But like all good, or more to the…
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Myth: Linux doesnt need updates out of the box
I’ve just installed a fresh (from the dvd) Fedora Core 5 install. I checked all packages available to me in…
MySQL on Amazon EC2 (my thoughts)
Who this document is for: People looking to house large MySQL data-sets on Amazon’s EC2 service, and people looking for…
There is a real issue to be discussed…
Amazons EC2 service is, by all accounts, brillian. But one of the things that it lacks is any sort of…
Well as my first step towards actually *using* EC2
I’m configuring myself a VMWare virtual machine running (well *instaling* right now) CentOS-4.4. Rather than worry about what to (and…
Traditional OPS VS Amazon AWS (part 3)
So now we know that we need to look at things in terms of pools or “stacks” of resources… But…
Traditional OPS VS Amazon AWS (part 2)
Our good friends at Amazon arrive on the scene. First they offered a stream of services which were interesting, but…
Traditional OPS VS Amazon AWS (part 1)
Lets take a look at your traditional web application setup (during development, or early stages with no funding). You might…
Learning a fact is easy, Learning to think is hard
Often times theres something that will happen throughout my day, and It’ll spark in me to talk, yet again, about…
Amazon EC2 – “oh shit bars”
In this article Isabel equates Amazons EC2 to a vehicles “Oh shit bars.” Which, I think, Is a very valid…