Guest: Flip Kromer twitter/github/irc: mrflip, http://infochimps.com,
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Hosts
you can check out more of his tunes at soundcloud.com/litex.
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Hosts
- Bryan Berry bryan.berry@gmail.com, Twitter/IRC/GitHub: bryanwb, blog: http://devopsanywhere.blogspot.com
- Matt Ray matt@opscode.com Twitter/IRC/GitHub: mattray blog: http://leastresistance.net
- Lusis, a.k.a. John E. Vincent blog: http://blog.lusis.org twitter: github: lusis
you can check out more of his tunes at soundcloud.com/litex.
News & Events
- There is no root cause, article by John Allspaw
- ChefConf 2012
- Call for papers closes soon, registration, sponsors, jobs.
- If your session is accepted, your attendance is comped (free).
- LA Chef Fundamentals Training Feb 21-23 with Johnathan Timberlake
- New York Chef Fundamentals Training March 14-16
- Cookbook updates
Interview: Flip Kromer, from InfoChimps
The Hadoop Haiku courtesy of MrFlip
Data flutters by
Data flutters by
Elephants make sturdy piles
Number becomes thought
- His infrastructure
- 20 TB total storage
- ~60 nodes
- uses hosted chef
- takes 50% of 1 engineer to maintain
- Uses AWS for everything
- His stack
- Hadoop - the kernel of Big Data OS, see Hadoop Haiku
- At least 10 different databases including hbase, cassandra, elastic search, mysql, redis
- flume and looking to use 0mq somewhere in there
- goliath is their main application server for Ruby apps
- Ironfan wires clusters of nodes together
- facets
- aspects
- components
- git repository is the single source of truth
- Ironfan-Pantry A set of Big Data cookbooks, a goldmine of AWESOMENESS that every chef users can learn from
- metachef - aspects of cookbooks should wire together on their own
- install_from - Johnathon Timberlake wants to know if this should be part of core Chef, we say Yes!
- Needed built-in resources
- Done
- daemonuser Done
- install_from Done
- abstraction for process management than works across Debian and Red Hat (needed!)
- Uses cuken to test their cookbooks together with ironfan-ci
Picks
Matt
Bryan
Lusis
Flip
- markdown-mode for emacs
- Geeks Guide to the Galaxy podcast
- Matt’s ”test lab”
Bryan
- Ruby Rogues podcast, of which this podcast is a shameless copy
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Lusis
- openvpn cookbook + cheap cloud account - uses in hostile environment to connect to his machines
- moleskine notebooks - great if you still remember how to write by hand
Flip