rusty...

Been a while since I got a consistent blogging effort.   For the past 8 months I've been focused on getting more of my writing done in a paper (how retro!) journal, but I'm starting to feel the need to publish again.  

Lots going on these day.  Keeping very busy with work and home-life but I do find some time to squeeze in some interesting side projects.  Well interesting to me at any rate.  Will start posting more updates as things change.

Good rules

  1. Don't reinvent the wheel.
  2. Use open source.
  3. Automate everything.
  4. Design for scale - plan to be lazy from the start.
  5. Design for hardware manageability.
  6. Use good cluster management software - don't dig wells with teaspoons.
  7. Use open source monitoring solutions.
  8. Control your users with a queuing system.
  9. Verify you get what you pay for - benchmark it!
  10. Manage cluster communication.

  11. Look for ways to become lazier.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-11sysadtips/index.html?ca=dgr-twtrLazyClusterAdmin&S_TACT=105AGY83&S_CMP=TWDW