Welcome to the final post in the series, it has been a long time coming. If required/requested I’m happy to delve into any of these topics deeper, but I’ll attempt to explain the situation, the best approach to take and how I got a POC working, which I am calling…
Last week was SUSE Hackweek. A week every employee is given to go have fun hacking something or learning something they find interesting. It’s an awesome annual event that SUSE runs. It’s my second and I love it. While being snowed in in Dublin at the Dublin PTG a while…
As an OpenStack Swift dev I obviously write a lot of Python. Further Swift is cluster and so it has a bunch of moving pieces. So debugging is very important. Most the time I use pudb and then jump into the PyCharms debugger if get really stuck. Pudb is curses based…
The latest POC is at the benchmarking stage, and in the most part it’s going well. I have set up 2 clusters in the cloud, not huge, but 2 proxies and 4 storage nodes each. A benchmarking run involves pointing an ssbench master at each cluster and putting each cluster…
Hey world it’s been a while, turns out I’m not much of a blogger. But I know how useful for myself it is to do write-ups occasionally so I can actually find them later.. having said that. In my last post I mentioned I was an OpenStack Developer.. and it’s…
Hello world, It’s been a while since I have blogged on this site, I apologise for that. My previous position was a tad proprietary, so although I worked with Linux, what I was doing needs to be sanitised before I can post about it. I have a bunch of posts…
Squid is one of the biggest and most used proxies on the interwebs. And generating reports from the access logs is already a done deal, there are many commercial and OSS apps that support the squid log format. But I found my self in a situation where I wanted stats…
Git makes it easy to add remote repositories to push to, best part is you can use ssh. The ‘git remote add’ command takes in a html URL like parameter for even SSH like: ssh://<user>@<host>/<path to git repo>/ NOT the standard ssh scp syntax: ssh://<user>@<host>:<path to repo>/ Which allows you…
Iptables is a powerful firewall/packet filtering framework inside Linux, and obviously used for firewalls on desktop, servers, and even embedded Linux devices such as most home internet routers. I was asked to write a script that could monitor and report network usage on one of our machines at work. I…