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Local Filesystems Suck 26 Aug 2013 | 09:42 pm
Distributed filesystems represent an important use case for local filesystems. Local-filesystem developers can't seem to deal with that. That, in a nutshell, is one of the most annoying things about w...
Technical Credit 16 Aug 2013 | 09:06 pm
To a first approximation, "software engineering" refers to all of the things you need to know when you take "programming" and try to scale it up - more code, more people, more time. You don't need an ...
GlusterFS 3.5 Features 13 Aug 2013 | 08:15 pm
It's time to let some cats out of some bags. As my loyal readers (yeah right) have surely noticed, things have been quiet around here. Part of that has been the result of vacations and such, but also ...
Avoiding Jet Lag 26 Jul 2013 | 03:50 am
And now for something completely different... As part of my job - educating and evangelizing and whatever else you call it - I travel a fair amount. I know there are other people who travel ten times...
Startups and Patents 20 Jul 2013 | 01:19 am
This should be a pretty familiar story to anyone in high tech by now. Startup makes something cool, becomes a target for patent litigation from what we used to call an NPE (Non Practicing Entity). App...
Small Synchronous Writes 18 Jul 2013 | 07:33 pm
Sometimes people ask me why I always use small synchronous writes for my performance comparisons. Surely (they say), there are other kinds of operations that are more common or more important. Yes the...
Performance Measurement Pitfalls 10 Jul 2013 | 05:03 am
One of the problems with measuring and comparing performance of scalable systems is that any workload capable of producing meaningful results is going to be highly multi-threaded, and most developers ...
Two Weeks is Not a Sprint 25 Jun 2013 | 05:10 pm
We're moving to an "agile" development process at work. Yes, we're becoming scrumbags. ;) One of the terms that really bothers me is "sprint" because I think of a sprint as a flat-out effort. That mea...
Lies, Damn Lies, and Parallels 24 Jun 2013 | 10:02 pm
This apparently happened a while ago, but it recently came to my attention via LWN that James Bottomley has made the claim that "Gluster sucks" (not a paraphrase, those seem to be his exact words). We...
Package Managers 22 Jun 2013 | 09:42 pm
There are many things that differentiate a true software engineer from a mere programmer. Most of them are unpleasant - planning releases, reviewing designs or code, testing, release engineering, and ...
