Bookmarks for December 11, 2009 through December 21, 2009

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Links for December 11, 2009 through December 21, 2009:

Start page – collectd – The system statistics collection daemon – "collectd is a daemon which collects system performance statistics periodically and provides mechanisms to store the values in a variety of ways, for example in RRD files."
crafterm's sprinkle at master – GitHub – "Sprinkle is a software provisioning tool you can use to build remote servers with. eg. to install a Rails, or Sinatra stack on a brand new slice directly after its been created."
Sprinkle Some Powder! – Sprinkle is a provisioning automation tool.
Cloudelay – Amazon CloudFront – In-browser table showing latency to various Amazon CloudFront locations.
cloud exchange – Historical graphs of Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud Spot Instance pricing.
VMware Communities: Using vscsiStats for Storage Performance Analysis – "vscsiStats collects and reports counters on storage activity. Its data is collected at the virtual SCSI device level in the kernel. This means that results are reported per VMDK (or RDM) irrespective of the underlying storage protocol."
Meet Hudson – hudson – Hudson Wiki – "Hudson monitors executions of repeated jobs, such as building a software project or jobs run by cron."
Chef – Opscode – "Chef is an open source systems integration framework built to bring the benefits of configuration mangement to your entire infrastructure. You write source code to describe how you want each part of your infrastructure to be built, then apply those descriptions to your servers. The result is a fully automated infrastructure: when a new server comes on line, the only thing you have to do is tell Chef what role it should play in your architecture."
EC2BuildinganImage < Main < TWiki – Notes on building an Amazon EC2 image for Scientific Linux (or CentOS). Includes detailed instructions under "Make Customizations for running on EC2".
namebench – Project Hosting on Google Code – "namebench runs a fair and thorough benchmark using your web browser history, tcpdump output, or standardized datasets in order to provide an individualized recommendation. namebench is completely free and does not modify your system in any way."
Migrating a Linux S3 Based AMI to an EBS Based AMI | full360.com – "I put this article together to show migrating an existing Linux AMI to EBS can be a trivial task."
Softies on Rails: The Absolute Moron's Guide to Capistrano – A gentle introduction to using Capistrano to deploy a Ruby on Rails app.

kb.hurricane-ridge.com » vscsiStats

Bookmarks for December 11, 2009 through December 21, 2009