Advanced Swift Features: Part 2
This is the second in a series of blog posts covering the advanced features of Swift. All features require the latest version of Swift from the OpenStack Grizzly release. [...]
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Advanced Swift Features: Part 1
This series of blog posts will cover some advanced features of Swift. All features require the latest version of Swift from the OpenStack Grizzly release. [...]
DAIR How-To Blog Series — Flavours Explained
The Digital Accelerator for Innovation and Research (known as DAIR) is a federally-funded program that is offering Canadian entrepreneurs and small businesses free ‘ [...]
Multi-master MySQL with Galera
As we are moving our ‘vclcloud’ compute nodes to run on top of a disk stripe using solid state drives, I think it’s important to look at what the stateful pieces of a system are and how to keep them reasonably available. [...]
DAIR How-To Blog Series — Images Explained
The Digital Accelerator for Innovation and Research (known as DAIR) is a federally-funded program that is offering Canadian entrepreneurs and small businesses free ‘ or [...]
Kernel settings, schedulers, and solid state drives
I’ve been testing various commercial solid state drives for a project that involves stateless, mostly Windows-based, virtual machines (vms). [...]
IOPS in a windows boot storm
We are going to boot 30 Windows 7 virtual machines ‘ each with one virtual CPU (vCPU) and two gigabytes of memory ‘ in two ‘boot storm’ tests: one where we boot the virtual machines (VMs), 240 seconds apart, and the second where we boot 20 seconds apart, and watch the IOPS use while that is happening. [...]
The best development tool is…Internet Relay Chat?
The more I work with cutting edge technology ‘ which, for me, means software that is still being heavily developed and doesn’t have good documentation yet, or software that isn’t commonly used ‘ the more I find Internet Relay Chat (IRC) to be helpful. [...]
Cloud experts from Alberta working with world’s elite
American company Nebula has launched a “cloud in a box” called Nebula One. Cybera was the first Nebula pilot-testing partner in one of only two Canadian sites. [...]
Eight people, five days, one OpenStack book
This past week, I had the opportunity to participate in a Book Sprint. A marathon of sorts, a Book Sprint is where a [...]