Bootstrapping Windows servers with Puppet
All started a handful of months ago, when it appeared that we’d need to build some of our native software on Windows. Before that time, all our desktop softw...
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puppet
Puppet Internals: the compiler
And I’m now proud to present the second installation of my series of post about Puppet Internals:
Benchmarking Puppet Stacks
I decided this week-end to try the more popular puppet master stacks and benchmark them with puppet-load (which is a tool I wrote to simulate concurrent clie...
Puppet Internals: the parser
As more or less promised in my series of post about Puppet Extension Points, here is the first post about Puppet Internals.
The Indirector - Puppet Extension Points 3
This article is a follow-up of those previous two articles of this series on Puppet Internals:
Puppet Extension Points - part 2
After the first part in this series of article on Puppet extensions points, I’m proud to deliver a new episode focusing on Types and Providers. Note that th...
Puppet Extension Points - part 1
It’s been a long time since my last blog post, almost a year. Not that I stopped hacking on Puppet or other things (even though I’m not as productive as I ha...
Puppet SSL explained
The puppet-users or #puppet freenode irc channel is full of questions or people struggling about the puppet SSL PKI. To my despair, there are also people wan...
Benchmarking puppetmaster stacks
It’s been a long time since my last puppet blog post about file content offloading. Two puppetcamps even passed (more on the last one in a next blog article)...
More Puppet Offloading
Puppet really shines at configuration management, but there are some things it is not good at, for instance file sourcing of large files, or managing deep hi...
Puppet Memory Usage - not a fatality
As every reader of this blog certainly know, I’m a big fan of Puppet, using it in production on Days of Wonder servers, up to the point I used to contribute ...
My Puppet Camp slides appearing on the slideshare homepage!
This morning I got the joy to see that my Puppet Camp 2009 slides had been selected by Slideshare to appear on their home page:
Puppet Camp 2009 debriefing time!
I attended Puppet Camp 2009 in San Francisco last week. It was a wonderful event and I could meet a lot of really smart developers and sysadmins from a lot o...
Storeconfigs (advanced) use cases
This week on #puppet, Nico asked for a storeconfigs live example. So I thought, a blog post would be perfect to post an example of a storeconfigs use case an...
Planet Puppet is born!
As usual, I’m faster to create things than to talk about them.
Puppet and JRuby a love story!
As announced in my last edit of my yesterday post Puppet and JRuby a love and hate story, I finally managed to run a webrick puppetmaster under JRuby with a ...
Puppet and JRuby, a love and hate story
Since I heard about JRuby about a year ago, I wanted to try to run my favorite ruby program on it. I’m working with Java almost all day long, so I know for s...
OMG!! storeconfigs killed my database!
When I wrote my previous post titled all about storedconfigs, I was pretty confident I explained everything I could about storedconfigs… I was wrong of cours...
All about Puppet storeconfigs
Since a long time people (including me) complained that storeconfigs was a real resource hog. Unfortunately for us, this option is so cool and useful.
Help! Puppetd is eating my server!
This seems to be recurrent this last 3 or 4 days with a few #puppet, redmine or puppet-user requests, asking about why puppetd is consuming so much CPU an...
February Puppet Dev Call
Yesterday we had the February Puppet Dev Call with unfortunately poor audio, lots of Skype disconnections which for a non native English speaker like me re...
Puppet Memory Leaks… Or not…
From time to time we get some complaints about so-called Puppet memory leaks either on #puppet, on the puppet-user list or in the Puppet redmine.
MySQL
mysql-snmp 1.0 - SNMP monitoring for MySQL
I’m really proud to announce the release of the version 1.0 of mysql-snmp. What is mysql-snmp? mysql-snmp is a mix between the excellent MySQL Cacti Templa...
MySQL InnoDB and table renaming don’t play well…
At Days of Wonder we are huge fans of MySQL (and since about a year of the various Open Query, Percona, Google or other community patches), up to the point w...
Introducing mysql-snmp!
Thanks to Days of Wonder the company I work for, I’m proud to release in Free Software (GPL):
OMG!! storeconfigs killed my database!
When I wrote my previous post titled all about storedconfigs, I was pretty confident I explained everything I could about storedconfigs… I was wrong of cours...
All about Puppet storeconfigs
Since a long time people (including me) complained that storeconfigs was a real resource hog. Unfortunately for us, this option is so cool and useful.
Puppet Memory Leaks… Or not…
From time to time we get some complaints about so-called Puppet memory leaks either on #puppet, on the puppet-user list or in the Puppet redmine.
OpenNMS JDBC Stored Procedure Poller with MySQL
Since a few months we are monitoring our infrastructure at Days of Wonder with OpenNMS. Until this afternoon we were running the beta/final candidate versio...
Ruby
The Indirector - Puppet Extension Points 3
This article is a follow-up of those previous two articles of this series on Puppet Internals:
Puppet Extension Points - part 2
After the first part in this series of article on Puppet extensions points, I’m proud to deliver a new episode focusing on Types and Providers. Note that th...
Puppet Extension Points - part 1
It’s been a long time since my last blog post, almost a year. Not that I stopped hacking on Puppet or other things (even though I’m not as productive as I ha...
Puppet Memory Usage - not a fatality
As every reader of this blog certainly know, I’m a big fan of Puppet, using it in production on Days of Wonder servers, up to the point I used to contribute ...
Puppet and JRuby a love story!
As announced in my last edit of my yesterday post Puppet and JRuby a love and hate story, I finally managed to run a webrick puppetmaster under JRuby with a ...
Puppet Memory Leaks… Or not…
From time to time we get some complaints about so-called Puppet memory leaks either on #puppet, on the puppet-user list or in the Puppet redmine.
Nginx
More Puppet Offloading
Puppet really shines at configuration management, but there are some things it is not good at, for instance file sourcing of large files, or managing deep hi...
Puppet Memory Usage - not a fatality
As every reader of this blog certainly know, I’m a big fan of Puppet, using it in production on Days of Wonder servers, up to the point I used to contribute ...
Nginx upload progress module v0.8!
Yes, I know… I released v0.7 less than a month ago. But this release was crippled by a crash that could happen at start or reload. Changes Bonus in this ne...
Nginx upload progress module v0.7!
I’m proud to announce the release of Nginx Upload Progress module v0.7 This version sees a crash fix and various new features implemented by Valery Kholodko...
New SSL features for Nginx
As a Puppet Mongrel Nginx user, I’m really ashamed about the convoluted nginx configuration needed (two server blocks listening on different ports, you need ...
Nginx secure link module with TTL
It’s been a long time since my last post… which just means I was really busy both privately, on the Puppet side and at work (I’ll talk about the Puppet side ...
mechanical keyboards
Designing a keyboard from scratch - Part 4
Welcome to the 4th episode of this series of articles about designing a full keyboard from scratch. So far we’ve seen:
Designing a keyboard from scratch - Part 3
Welcome for the third episode of this series of posts about designing a full fledged keyboard from scratch. The first episode focused on the electronic schem...
Handwired Keyboard Build Log - Part 2
In the handwired build log part 1 we saw a technique to build a nice keyboard matrix without using a PCB.
Handwired Keyboard Build Log - Part 1
Update 1: I’ve finished the second part of the serie
storeconfigs
Puppet Camp 2009 debriefing time!
I attended Puppet Camp 2009 in San Francisco last week. It was a wonderful event and I could meet a lot of really smart developers and sysadmins from a lot o...
Storeconfigs (advanced) use cases
This week on #puppet, Nico asked for a storeconfigs live example. So I thought, a blog post would be perfect to post an example of a storeconfigs use case an...
OMG!! storeconfigs killed my database!
When I wrote my previous post titled all about storedconfigs, I was pretty confident I explained everything I could about storedconfigs… I was wrong of cours...
All about Puppet storeconfigs
Since a long time people (including me) complained that storeconfigs was a real resource hog. Unfortunately for us, this option is so cool and useful.
Puppet Memory Leaks… Or not…
From time to time we get some complaints about so-called Puppet memory leaks either on #puppet, on the puppet-user list or in the Puppet redmine.
devops
Bootstrapping Windows servers with Puppet
All started a handful of months ago, when it appeared that we’d need to build some of our native software on Windows. Before that time, all our desktop softw...
FOSDEM and Config Management Camp 2014
So I know this blog has been almost abandoned, but that’s not because I don’t have anything to say. At contrary, I’ve never dealt with so many different tool...
Devopsdays Paris For Real!
Paris is more and more becoming the DevOps place to be. We (apparently) successfully rebooted the Paris DevOps Meetups, with already two events so far, and t...
The 10 commandments of logging
Welcome on my blog for this new Year. After writing an answer to a thread regarding monitoring and log monitoring on the Paris devops mailing list, I thought...
Ticket to Devopsdays Roma?
After seeing @KrisBuytaert tweet a couple of days ago about offering priority registration for the upcoming Devopsdays Roma next October to people blogging a...
snmp
redis-snmp: redis performance monitoring through SNMP
The same way I created mysql-snmp a small Net-SNMP subagent that allows exporting performance data from MySQL through SNMP, I’m proud to announce the first r...
mysql-snmp 1.0 - SNMP monitoring for MySQL
I’m really proud to announce the release of the version 1.0 of mysql-snmp. What is mysql-snmp? mysql-snmp is a mix between the excellent MySQL Cacti Templa...
Introducing mysql-snmp!
Thanks to Days of Wonder the company I work for, I’m proud to release in Free Software (GPL):
Net-Snmp doesn’t detect interface speed on Linux
Have you ever wondered why net-snmp doesn’t report a ccomments: true orrect interface speed on Linux?
puppetmaster
Benchmarking puppetmaster stacks
It’s been a long time since my last puppet blog post about file content offloading. Two puppetcamps even passed (more on the last one in a next blog article)...
More Puppet Offloading
Puppet really shines at configuration management, but there are some things it is not good at, for instance file sourcing of large files, or managing deep hi...
Puppet and JRuby, a love and hate story
Since I heard about JRuby about a year ago, I wanted to try to run my favorite ruby program on it. I’m working with Java almost all day long, so I know for s...
All about Puppet storeconfigs
Since a long time people (including me) complained that storeconfigs was a real resource hog. Unfortunately for us, this option is so cool and useful.
ssl
Puppet SSL explained
The puppet-users or #puppet freenode irc channel is full of questions or people struggling about the puppet SSL PKI. To my despair, there are also people wan...
New SSL features for Nginx
As a Puppet Mongrel Nginx user, I’m really ashamed about the convoluted nginx configuration needed (two server blocks listening on different ports, you need ...
Puppet and JRuby a love story!
As announced in my last edit of my yesterday post Puppet and JRuby a love and hate story, I finally managed to run a webrick puppetmaster under JRuby with a ...
Puppet and JRuby, a love and hate story
Since I heard about JRuby about a year ago, I wanted to try to run my favorite ruby program on it. I’m working with Java almost all day long, so I know for s...
jruby
Benchmarking Puppet Stacks
I decided this week-end to try the more popular puppet master stacks and benchmark them with puppet-load (which is a tool I wrote to simulate concurrent clie...
Puppet Memory Usage - not a fatality
As every reader of this blog certainly know, I’m a big fan of Puppet, using it in production on Days of Wonder servers, up to the point I used to contribute ...
Puppet and JRuby a love story!
As announced in my last edit of my yesterday post Puppet and JRuby a love and hate story, I finally managed to run a webrick puppetmaster under JRuby with a ...
Puppet and JRuby, a love and hate story
Since I heard about JRuby about a year ago, I wanted to try to run my favorite ruby program on it. I’m working with Java almost all day long, so I know for s...
design
Designing a keyboard from scratch - Part 4
Welcome to the 4th episode of this series of articles about designing a full keyboard from scratch. So far we’ve seen:
Designing a keyboard from scratch - Part 3
Welcome for the third episode of this series of posts about designing a full fledged keyboard from scratch. The first episode focused on the electronic schem...
PCB
Designing a keyboard from scratch - Part 4
Welcome to the 4th episode of this series of articles about designing a full keyboard from scratch. So far we’ve seen:
Designing a keyboard from scratch - Part 3
Welcome for the third episode of this series of posts about designing a full fledged keyboard from scratch. The first episode focused on the electronic schem...
electronics
Designing a keyboard from scratch - Part 4
Welcome to the 4th episode of this series of articles about designing a full keyboard from scratch. So far we’ve seen:
Designing a keyboard from scratch - Part 3
Welcome for the third episode of this series of posts about designing a full fledged keyboard from scratch. The first episode focused on the electronic schem...
opennms
mysql-snmp 1.0 - SNMP monitoring for MySQL
I’m really proud to announce the release of the version 1.0 of mysql-snmp. What is mysql-snmp? mysql-snmp is a mix between the excellent MySQL Cacti Templa...
Introducing mysql-snmp!
Thanks to Days of Wonder the company I work for, I’m proud to release in Free Software (GPL):
OpenNMS JDBC Stored Procedure Poller with MySQL
Since a few months we are monitoring our infrastructure at Days of Wonder with OpenNMS. Until this afternoon we were running the beta/final candidate versio...
monitoring
redis-snmp: redis performance monitoring through SNMP
The same way I created mysql-snmp a small Net-SNMP subagent that allows exporting performance data from MySQL through SNMP, I’m proud to announce the first r...
mysql-snmp 1.0 - SNMP monitoring for MySQL
I’m really proud to announce the release of the version 1.0 of mysql-snmp. What is mysql-snmp? mysql-snmp is a mix between the excellent MySQL Cacti Templa...
OpenNMS JDBC Stored Procedure Poller with MySQL
Since a few months we are monitoring our infrastructure at Days of Wonder with OpenNMS. Until this afternoon we were running the beta/final candidate versio...
net-snmp
mysql-snmp 1.0 - SNMP monitoring for MySQL
I’m really proud to announce the release of the version 1.0 of mysql-snmp. What is mysql-snmp? mysql-snmp is a mix between the excellent MySQL Cacti Templa...
Introducing mysql-snmp!
Thanks to Days of Wonder the company I work for, I’m proud to release in Free Software (GPL):
Net-Snmp doesn’t detect interface speed on Linux
Have you ever wondered why net-snmp doesn’t report a ccomments: true orrect interface speed on Linux?
Java
Puppet and JRuby a love story!
As announced in my last edit of my yesterday post Puppet and JRuby a love and hate story, I finally managed to run a webrick puppetmaster under JRuby with a ...
Puppet and JRuby, a love and hate story
Since I heard about JRuby about a year ago, I wanted to try to run my favorite ruby program on it. I’m working with Java almost all day long, so I know for s...
How do you like your Mocks served?
I like them refreshing, of course:
memory
Puppet Memory Usage - not a fatality
As every reader of this blog certainly know, I’m a big fan of Puppet, using it in production on Days of Wonder servers, up to the point I used to contribute ...
MySQL InnoDB and table renaming don’t play well…
At Days of Wonder we are huge fans of MySQL (and since about a year of the various Open Query, Percona, Google or other community patches), up to the point w...
Help! Puppetd is eating my server!
This seems to be recurrent this last 3 or 4 days with a few #puppet, redmine or puppet-user requests, asking about why puppetd is consuming so much CPU an...
DSL
The Indirector - Puppet Extension Points 3
This article is a follow-up of those previous two articles of this series on Puppet Internals:
Puppet Extension Points - part 2
After the first part in this series of article on Puppet extensions points, I’m proud to deliver a new episode focusing on Types and Providers. Note that th...
Puppet Extension Points - part 1
It’s been a long time since my last blog post, almost a year. Not that I stopped hacking on Puppet or other things (even though I’m not as productive as I ha...
metaprogramming
The Indirector - Puppet Extension Points 3
This article is a follow-up of those previous two articles of this series on Puppet Internals:
Puppet Extension Points - part 2
After the first part in this series of article on Puppet extensions points, I’m proud to deliver a new episode focusing on Types and Providers. Note that th...
Puppet Extension Points - part 1
It’s been a long time since my last blog post, almost a year. Not that I stopped hacking on Puppet or other things (even though I’m not as productive as I ha...
internals
The Indirector - Puppet Extension Points 3
This article is a follow-up of those previous two articles of this series on Puppet Internals:
Puppet Extension Points - part 2
After the first part in this series of article on Puppet extensions points, I’m proud to deliver a new episode focusing on Types and Providers. Note that th...
Puppet Extension Points - part 1
It’s been a long time since my last blog post, almost a year. Not that I stopped hacking on Puppet or other things (even though I’m not as productive as I ha...
sql
The definitive recipe for Wordpress Gengo to WPML conversion
The Days of Wonder News Center is running Wordpress which until a couple of days used Gengo for multilingual stuff. Back when we started using Wordpress for ...
OpenNMS JDBC Stored Procedure Poller with MySQL
Since a few months we are monitoring our infrastructure at Days of Wonder with OpenNMS. Until this afternoon we were running the beta/final candidate versio...
linux
In love with zsh, part 1
Note: when I started writing this post, I didn’t know it would be this long. I decided then to split it in several posts, each one covering one or more inter...
Net-Snmp doesn’t detect interface speed on Linux
Have you ever wondered why net-snmp doesn’t report a ccomments: true orrect interface speed on Linux?
memory leak
MySQL InnoDB and table renaming don’t play well…
At Days of Wonder we are huge fans of MySQL (and since about a year of the various Open Query, Percona, Google or other community patches), up to the point w...
Puppet Memory Leaks… Or not…
From time to time we get some complaints about so-called Puppet memory leaks either on #puppet, on the puppet-user list or in the Puppet redmine.
pictures
My Puppet Camp slides appearing on the slideshare homepage!
This morning I got the joy to see that my Puppet Camp 2009 slides had been selected by Slideshare to appear on their home page:
No more slides, welcome to our Digital Overlords
If you had a look to my About Me page, you know that one of my hobby is photography. Until a couple of weeks ago, I was still doing analog photography with ...
War stories
Help! Puppetd is eating my server!
This seems to be recurrent this last 3 or 4 days with a few #puppet, redmine or puppet-user requests, asking about why puppetd is consuming so much CPU an...
Failed upgrade, impossible to downgrade… Oh my…
In the Days of Wonder Paris Office (where is located our graphic studio, and incidentally where I work), we are using Bacula to perform the multi-terabyte ...
performance
Benchmarking puppetmaster stacks
It’s been a long time since my last puppet blog post about file content offloading. Two puppetcamps even passed (more on the last one in a next blog article)...
All about Puppet storeconfigs
Since a long time people (including me) complained that storeconfigs was a real resource hog. Unfortunately for us, this option is so cool and useful.
InnoDB
MySQL InnoDB and table renaming don’t play well…
At Days of Wonder we are huge fans of MySQL (and since about a year of the various Open Query, Percona, Google or other community patches), up to the point w...
OMG!! storeconfigs killed my database!
When I wrote my previous post titled all about storedconfigs, I was pretty confident I explained everything I could about storedconfigs… I was wrong of cours...
storedconfigs
Storeconfigs (advanced) use cases
This week on #puppet, Nico asked for a storeconfigs live example. So I thought, a blog post would be perfect to post an example of a storeconfigs use case an...
OMG!! storeconfigs killed my database!
When I wrote my previous post titled all about storedconfigs, I was pretty confident I explained everything I could about storedconfigs… I was wrong of cours...
sysadmin
redis-snmp: redis performance monitoring through SNMP
The same way I created mysql-snmp a small Net-SNMP subagent that allows exporting performance data from MySQL through SNMP, I’m proud to announce the first r...
PLD to the rescue!
There is something I used to hate to do. And I think all admins also hate to do that.
zsh
In love with zsh, part 1
Note: when I started writing this post, I didn’t know it would be this long. I decided then to split it in several posts, each one covering one or more inter...
PLD to the rescue!
There is something I used to hate to do. And I think all admins also hate to do that.
patch
MySQL InnoDB and table renaming don’t play well…
At Days of Wonder we are huge fans of MySQL (and since about a year of the various Open Query, Percona, Google or other community patches), up to the point w...
New SSL features for Nginx
As a Puppet Mongrel Nginx user, I’m really ashamed about the convoluted nginx configuration needed (two server blocks listening on different ports, you need ...
puppetcamp
My Puppet Camp slides appearing on the slideshare homepage!
This morning I got the joy to see that my Puppet Camp 2009 slides had been selected by Slideshare to appear on their home page:
Puppet Camp 2009 debriefing time!
I attended Puppet Camp 2009 in San Francisco last week. It was a wonderful event and I could meet a lot of really smart developers and sysadmins from a lot o...
puppetcamp09
My Puppet Camp slides appearing on the slideshare homepage!
This morning I got the joy to see that my Puppet Camp 2009 slides had been selected by Slideshare to appear on their home page:
Puppet Camp 2009 debriefing time!
I attended Puppet Camp 2009 in San Francisco last week. It was a wonderful event and I could meet a lot of really smart developers and sysadmins from a lot o...
nginx upload progress
Nginx upload progress module v0.8!
Yes, I know… I released v0.7 less than a month ago. But this release was crippled by a crash that could happen at start or reload. Changes Bonus in this ne...
Nginx upload progress module v0.7!
I’m proud to announce the release of Nginx Upload Progress module v0.7 This version sees a crash fix and various new features implemented by Valery Kholodko...
nginx module
Nginx upload progress module v0.8!
Yes, I know… I released v0.7 less than a month ago. But this release was crippled by a crash that could happen at start or reload. Changes Bonus in this ne...
Nginx upload progress module v0.7!
I’m proud to announce the release of Nginx Upload Progress module v0.7 This version sees a crash fix and various new features implemented by Valery Kholodko...
benchmark
Benchmarking Puppet Stacks
I decided this week-end to try the more popular puppet master stacks and benchmark them with puppet-load (which is a tool I wrote to simulate concurrent clie...
Benchmarking puppetmaster stacks
It’s been a long time since my last puppet blog post about file content offloading. Two puppetcamps even passed (more on the last one in a next blog article)...
puppet internals
Puppet Internals: the compiler
And I’m now proud to present the second installation of my series of post about Puppet Internals:
Puppet Internals: the parser
As more or less promised in my series of post about Puppet Extension Points, here is the first post about Puppet Internals.
ruby
Puppet Internals: the compiler
And I’m now proud to present the second installation of my series of post about Puppet Internals:
Puppet Internals: the parser
As more or less promised in my series of post about Puppet Extension Points, here is the first post about Puppet Internals.
handwired
Handwired Keyboard Build Log - Part 2
In the handwired build log part 1 we saw a technique to build a nice keyboard matrix without using a PCB.
Handwired Keyboard Build Log - Part 1
Update 1: I’ve finished the second part of the serie
procedure
OpenNMS JDBC Stored Procedure Poller with MySQL
Since a few months we are monitoring our infrastructure at Days of Wonder with OpenNMS. Until this afternoon we were running the beta/final candidate versio...
interface
Net-Snmp doesn’t detect interface speed on Linux
Have you ever wondered why net-snmp doesn’t report a ccomments: true orrect interface speed on Linux?
permission
Net-Snmp doesn’t detect interface speed on Linux
Have you ever wondered why net-snmp doesn’t report a ccomments: true orrect interface speed on Linux?
testing
How do you like your Mocks served?
I like them refreshing, of course:
mock
How do you like your Mocks served?
I like them refreshing, of course:
unit testing
How do you like your Mocks served?
I like them refreshing, of course:
dtrace
Puppet Memory Leaks… Or not…
From time to time we get some complaints about so-called Puppet memory leaks either on #puppet, on the puppet-user list or in the Puppet redmine.
gdb
Puppet Memory Leaks… Or not…
From time to time we get some complaints about so-called Puppet memory leaks either on #puppet, on the puppet-user list or in the Puppet redmine.
rails
Puppet Memory Leaks… Or not…
From time to time we get some complaints about so-called Puppet memory leaks either on #puppet, on the puppet-user list or in the Puppet redmine.
bleak house
Puppet Memory Leaks… Or not…
From time to time we get some complaints about so-called Puppet memory leaks either on #puppet, on the puppet-user list or in the Puppet redmine.
smallworld
Small World contest!
You certainly know that I work for the boardgame publisher Days of Wonder, and we announced a couple of days ago our new boardgame Small World:
game
Small World contest!
You certainly know that I work for the boardgame publisher Days of Wonder, and we announced a couple of days ago our new boardgame Small World:
daysofwonder
Small World contest!
You certainly know that I work for the boardgame publisher Days of Wonder, and we announced a couple of days ago our new boardgame Small World:
Boardgames
Small World contest!
You certainly know that I work for the boardgame publisher Days of Wonder, and we announced a couple of days ago our new boardgame Small World:
photo
No more slides, welcome to our Digital Overlords
If you had a look to my About Me page, you know that one of my hobby is photography. Until a couple of weeks ago, I was still doing analog photography with ...
nikon
No more slides, welcome to our Digital Overlords
If you had a look to my About Me page, you know that one of my hobby is photography. Until a couple of weeks ago, I was still doing analog photography with ...
d700
No more slides, welcome to our Digital Overlords
If you had a look to my About Me page, you know that one of my hobby is photography. Until a couple of weeks ago, I was still doing analog photography with ...
digital
No more slides, welcome to our Digital Overlords
If you had a look to my About Me page, you know that one of my hobby is photography. Until a couple of weeks ago, I was still doing analog photography with ...
slide
No more slides, welcome to our Digital Overlords
If you had a look to my About Me page, you know that one of my hobby is photography. Until a couple of weeks ago, I was still doing analog photography with ...
f100
No more slides, welcome to our Digital Overlords
If you had a look to my About Me page, you know that one of my hobby is photography. Until a couple of weeks ago, I was still doing analog photography with ...
smugmug
No more slides, welcome to our Digital Overlords
If you had a look to my About Me page, you know that one of my hobby is photography. Until a couple of weeks ago, I was still doing analog photography with ...
disk
The curse of bad blocks (is no more)
If you like me are struggling with old disks (in my case SCSI 10k RPM Ultra Wide 2 HP disks) that exhibits bad blocks, here is a short survival howto.
scsi
The curse of bad blocks (is no more)
If you like me are struggling with old disks (in my case SCSI 10k RPM Ultra Wide 2 HP disks) that exhibits bad blocks, here is a short survival howto.
failed sector
The curse of bad blocks (is no more)
If you like me are struggling with old disks (in my case SCSI 10k RPM Ultra Wide 2 HP disks) that exhibits bad blocks, here is a short survival howto.
smartmontools
The curse of bad blocks (is no more)
If you like me are struggling with old disks (in my case SCSI 10k RPM Ultra Wide 2 HP disks) that exhibits bad blocks, here is a short survival howto.
sg3_utils
The curse of bad blocks (is no more)
If you like me are struggling with old disks (in my case SCSI 10k RPM Ultra Wide 2 HP disks) that exhibits bad blocks, here is a short survival howto.
backup
The curse of bad blocks (is no more)
If you like me are struggling with old disks (in my case SCSI 10k RPM Ultra Wide 2 HP disks) that exhibits bad blocks, here is a short survival howto.
disk defect
The curse of bad blocks (is no more)
If you like me are struggling with old disks (in my case SCSI 10k RPM Ultra Wide 2 HP disks) that exhibits bad blocks, here is a short survival howto.
dev call
February Puppet Dev Call
Yesterday we had the February Puppet Dev Call with unfortunately poor audio, lots of Skype disconnections which for a non native English speaker like me re...
development
February Puppet Dev Call
Yesterday we had the February Puppet Dev Call with unfortunately poor audio, lots of Skype disconnections which for a non native English speaker like me re...
roadmap
February Puppet Dev Call
Yesterday we had the February Puppet Dev Call with unfortunately poor audio, lots of Skype disconnections which for a non native English speaker like me re...
upgrade
Failed upgrade, impossible to downgrade… Oh my…
In the Days of Wonder Paris Office (where is located our graphic studio, and incidentally where I work), we are using Bacula to perform the multi-terabyte ...
802.3ad
Failed upgrade, impossible to downgrade… Oh my…
In the Days of Wonder Paris Office (where is located our graphic studio, and incidentally where I work), we are using Bacula to perform the multi-terabyte ...
channel-group
Failed upgrade, impossible to downgrade… Oh my…
In the Days of Wonder Paris Office (where is located our graphic studio, and incidentally where I work), we are using Bacula to perform the multi-terabyte ...
dell
Failed upgrade, impossible to downgrade… Oh my…
In the Days of Wonder Paris Office (where is located our graphic studio, and incidentally where I work), we are using Bacula to perform the multi-terabyte ...
network
Failed upgrade, impossible to downgrade… Oh my…
In the Days of Wonder Paris Office (where is located our graphic studio, and incidentally where I work), we are using Bacula to perform the multi-terabyte ...
bonding
Failed upgrade, impossible to downgrade… Oh my…
In the Days of Wonder Paris Office (where is located our graphic studio, and incidentally where I work), we are using Bacula to perform the multi-terabyte ...
checksum
Help! Puppetd is eating my server!
This seems to be recurrent this last 3 or 4 days with a few #puppet, redmine or puppet-user requests, asking about why puppetd is consuming so much CPU an...
recursive
Help! Puppetd is eating my server!
This seems to be recurrent this last 3 or 4 days with a few #puppet, redmine or puppet-user requests, asking about why puppetd is consuming so much CPU an...
cpu
Help! Puppetd is eating my server!
This seems to be recurrent this last 3 or 4 days with a few #puppet, redmine or puppet-user requests, asking about why puppetd is consuming so much CPU an...
database
All about Puppet storeconfigs
Since a long time people (including me) complained that storeconfigs was a real resource hog. Unfortunately for us, this option is so cool and useful.
tuning
OMG!! storeconfigs killed my database!
When I wrote my previous post titled all about storedconfigs, I was pretty confident I explained everything I could about storedconfigs… I was wrong of cours...
grml
PLD to the rescue!
There is something I used to hate to do. And I think all admins also hate to do that.
opengear
PLD to the rescue!
There is something I used to hate to do. And I think all admins also hate to do that.
console server
PLD to the rescue!
There is something I used to hate to do. And I think all admins also hate to do that.
console
PLD to the rescue!
There is something I used to hate to do. And I think all admins also hate to do that.
rescue
PLD to the rescue!
There is something I used to hate to do. And I think all admins also hate to do that.
pld rescue
PLD to the rescue!
There is something I used to hate to do. And I think all admins also hate to do that.
netboot
PLD to the rescue!
There is something I used to hate to do. And I think all admins also hate to do that.
unix
In love with zsh, part 1
Note: when I started writing this post, I didn’t know it would be this long. I decided then to split it in several posts, each one covering one or more inter...
shell
In love with zsh, part 1
Note: when I started writing this post, I didn’t know it would be this long. I decided then to split it in several posts, each one covering one or more inter...
openssl
Puppet and JRuby, a love and hate story
Since I heard about JRuby about a year ago, I wanted to try to run my favorite ruby program on it. I’m working with Java almost all day long, so I know for s...
certificates
Puppet and JRuby a love story!
As announced in my last edit of my yesterday post Puppet and JRuby a love and hate story, I finally managed to run a webrick puppetmaster under JRuby with a ...
PHP
Nginx secure link module with TTL
It’s been a long time since my last post… which just means I was really busy both privately, on the Puppet side and at work (I’ll talk about the Puppet side ...
secure link
Nginx secure link module with TTL
It’s been a long time since my last post… which just means I was really busy both privately, on the Puppet side and at work (I’ll talk about the Puppet side ...
crl
New SSL features for Nginx
As a Puppet Mongrel Nginx user, I’m really ashamed about the convoluted nginx configuration needed (two server blocks listening on different ports, you need ...
planet
Planet Puppet is born!
As usual, I’m faster to create things than to talk about them.
planetpuppet
Planet Puppet is born!
As usual, I’m faster to create things than to talk about them.
blog
Planet Puppet is born!
As usual, I’m faster to create things than to talk about them.
moonmoon
Planet Puppet is born!
As usual, I’m faster to create things than to talk about them.
gps
Inexpensive but Powerful Photo Geotagging
It’s a long time since I blogged about photography, but I’m coming back from 2 weeks vacation in Sicily armed with my Nikon D700, so it’s the perfect time to...
geotag
Inexpensive but Powerful Photo Geotagging
It’s a long time since I blogged about photography, but I’m coming back from 2 weeks vacation in Sicily armed with my Nikon D700, so it’s the perfect time to...
igotu
Inexpensive but Powerful Photo Geotagging
It’s a long time since I blogged about photography, but I’m coming back from 2 weeks vacation in Sicily armed with my Nikon D700, so it’s the perfect time to...
gpx
Inexpensive but Powerful Photo Geotagging
It’s a long time since I blogged about photography, but I’m coming back from 2 weeks vacation in Sicily armed with my Nikon D700, so it’s the perfect time to...
macosx
Inexpensive but Powerful Photo Geotagging
It’s a long time since I blogged about photography, but I’m coming back from 2 weeks vacation in Sicily armed with my Nikon D700, so it’s the perfect time to...
geotagging
Inexpensive but Powerful Photo Geotagging
It’s a long time since I blogged about photography, but I’m coming back from 2 weeks vacation in Sicily armed with my Nikon D700, so it’s the perfect time to...
presentation
Puppet Camp 2009 debriefing time!
I attended Puppet Camp 2009 in San Francisco last week. It was a wonderful event and I could meet a lot of really smart developers and sysadmins from a lot o...
oom
MySQL InnoDB and table renaming don’t play well…
At Days of Wonder we are huge fans of MySQL (and since about a year of the various Open Query, Percona, Google or other community patches), up to the point w...
rename
MySQL InnoDB and table renaming don’t play well…
At Days of Wonder we are huge fans of MySQL (and since about a year of the various Open Query, Percona, Google or other community patches), up to the point w...
mysql patch
MySQL InnoDB and table renaming don’t play well…
At Days of Wonder we are huge fans of MySQL (and since about a year of the various Open Query, Percona, Google or other community patches), up to the point w...
release
Nginx upload progress module v0.7!
I’m proud to announce the release of Nginx Upload Progress module v0.7 This version sees a crash fix and various new features implemented by Valery Kholodko...
json
Puppet Memory Usage - not a fatality
As every reader of this blog certainly know, I’m a big fan of Puppet, using it in production on Days of Wonder servers, up to the point I used to contribute ...
REST
Puppet Memory Usage - not a fatality
As every reader of this blog certainly know, I’m a big fan of Puppet, using it in production on Days of Wonder servers, up to the point I used to contribute ...
heap
Puppet Memory Usage - not a fatality
As every reader of this blog certainly know, I’m a big fan of Puppet, using it in production on Days of Wonder servers, up to the point I used to contribute ...
allocator
Puppet Memory Usage - not a fatality
As every reader of this blog certainly know, I’m a big fan of Puppet, using it in production on Days of Wonder servers, up to the point I used to contribute ...
file serving
Puppet Memory Usage - not a fatality
As every reader of this blog certainly know, I’m a big fan of Puppet, using it in production on Days of Wonder servers, up to the point I used to contribute ...
memory hog
Puppet Memory Usage - not a fatality
As every reader of this blog certainly know, I’m a big fan of Puppet, using it in production on Days of Wonder servers, up to the point I used to contribute ...
memory consumption
Puppet Memory Usage - not a fatality
As every reader of this blog certainly know, I’m a big fan of Puppet, using it in production on Days of Wonder servers, up to the point I used to contribute ...
YAML
Puppet Memory Usage - not a fatality
As every reader of this blog certainly know, I’m a big fan of Puppet, using it in production on Days of Wonder servers, up to the point I used to contribute ...
offloading
More Puppet Offloading
Puppet really shines at configuration management, but there are some things it is not good at, for instance file sourcing of large files, or managing deep hi...
cache
More Puppet Offloading
Puppet really shines at configuration management, but there are some things it is not good at, for instance file sourcing of large files, or managing deep hi...
gengo
The definitive recipe for Wordpress Gengo to WPML conversion
The Days of Wonder News Center is running Wordpress which until a couple of days used Gengo for multilingual stuff. Back when we started using Wordpress for ...
Wordpress
The definitive recipe for Wordpress Gengo to WPML conversion
The Days of Wonder News Center is running Wordpress which until a couple of days used Gengo for multilingual stuff. Back when we started using Wordpress for ...
wpml
The definitive recipe for Wordpress Gengo to WPML conversion
The Days of Wonder News Center is running Wordpress which until a couple of days used Gengo for multilingual stuff. Back when we started using Wordpress for ...
conversion
The definitive recipe for Wordpress Gengo to WPML conversion
The Days of Wonder News Center is running Wordpress which until a couple of days used Gengo for multilingual stuff. Back when we started using Wordpress for ...
puppet-load
Benchmarking puppetmaster stacks
It’s been a long time since my last puppet blog post about file content offloading. Two puppetcamps even passed (more on the last one in a next blog article)...
crypto
Puppet SSL explained
The puppet-users or #puppet freenode irc channel is full of questions or people struggling about the puppet SSL PKI. To my despair, there are also people wan...
pki
Puppet SSL explained
The puppet-users or #puppet freenode irc channel is full of questions or people struggling about the puppet SSL PKI. To my despair, there are also people wan...
x509
Puppet SSL explained
The puppet-users or #puppet freenode irc channel is full of questions or people struggling about the puppet SSL PKI. To my despair, there are also people wan...
pluginsync
Puppet Extension Points - part 1
It’s been a long time since my last blog post, almost a year. Not that I stopped hacking on Puppet or other things (even though I’m not as productive as I ha...
provider
Puppet Extension Points - part 2
After the first part in this series of article on Puppet extensions points, I’m proud to deliver a new episode focusing on Types and Providers. Note that th...
type
Puppet Extension Points - part 2
After the first part in this series of article on Puppet extensions points, I’m proud to deliver a new episode focusing on Types and Providers. Note that th...
RAL
Puppet Extension Points - part 2
After the first part in this series of article on Puppet extensions points, I’m proud to deliver a new episode focusing on Types and Providers. Note that th...
DNS
Puppet Extension Points - part 2
After the first part in this series of article on Puppet extensions points, I’m proud to deliver a new episode focusing on Types and Providers. Note that th...
indirector
The Indirector - Puppet Extension Points 3
This article is a follow-up of those previous two articles of this series on Puppet Internals:
redis
redis-snmp: redis performance monitoring through SNMP
The same way I created mysql-snmp a small Net-SNMP subagent that allows exporting performance data from MySQL through SNMP, I’m proud to announce the first r...
java
Protobuf, Maven, M2E and Eclipse are on a boat
At Days of Wonder we develop several Java projects (for instance our online game servers). Those are built with Maven, and most if not all are using Google P...
maven
Protobuf, Maven, M2E and Eclipse are on a boat
At Days of Wonder we develop several Java projects (for instance our online game servers). Those are built with Maven, and most if not all are using Google P...
protobuf
Protobuf, Maven, M2E and Eclipse are on a boat
At Days of Wonder we develop several Java projects (for instance our online game servers). Those are built with Maven, and most if not all are using Google P...
eclipse
Protobuf, Maven, M2E and Eclipse are on a boat
At Days of Wonder we develop several Java projects (for instance our online game servers). Those are built with Maven, and most if not all are using Google P...
m2e
Protobuf, Maven, M2E and Eclipse are on a boat
At Days of Wonder we develop several Java projects (for instance our online game servers). Those are built with Maven, and most if not all are using Google P...
parser
Puppet Internals: the parser
As more or less promised in my series of post about Puppet Extension Points, here is the first post about Puppet Internals.
passenger
Benchmarking Puppet Stacks
I decided this week-end to try the more popular puppet master stacks and benchmark them with puppet-load (which is a tool I wrote to simulate concurrent clie...
mongrel
Benchmarking Puppet Stacks
I decided this week-end to try the more popular puppet master stacks and benchmark them with puppet-load (which is a tool I wrote to simulate concurrent clie...
compiler
Puppet Internals: the compiler
And I’m now proud to present the second installation of my series of post about Puppet Internals:
puppetize
FOSDEM and Config Management Camp 2014
So I know this blog has been almost abandoned, but that’s not because I don’t have anything to say. At contrary, I’ve never dealt with so many different tool...
chefops
FOSDEM and Config Management Camp 2014
So I know this blog has been almost abandoned, but that’s not because I don’t have anything to say. At contrary, I’ve never dealt with so many different tool...
cfengine
FOSDEM and Config Management Camp 2014
So I know this blog has been almost abandoned, but that’s not because I don’t have anything to say. At contrary, I’ve never dealt with so many different tool...