James Hamilton, ‘On Designing and Deploying Internet-Scale Services’, LISA ’07 (PDF) : James Hamilton, now at Amazon, then at MSN, gives a canonical list of best practices for large-scale operations-friendly server deployments, ‘accumulated over many years in scaling some of the largest services at MSN and Windows Live.’ a lot of good advice here (via Tony Finch)
(tags: via:fanf sysadmin lisa deployment server-farms servers testing debugging monitoring logging operations configuration)spiritofireland.org technical forum : plenty of spirited (ho ho) discussion of the proposed massive wind-power project and its viability
(tags: power wind-power spirit-of-ireland forum discussion ireland green)resty : short bash wrappers for curl to ease debugging REST APIs. looks nice, but I’m not impressed at it’s stomping on the venerable lwp GET/PUT/POST commands :(
(tags: lwp rest curl http debugging shell bash cli)Artificial Owl : “The most fascinating abandoned man-made creations, and their story & location”. my new favourite photoblog, and great name too (via JWZ)
(tags: via:jwz blogs history photography travel photos architecture decay)