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Spinn3r Client Driver for Perl
The guys over at Slaant were nice enough to write an Open Source driver for Spinn3r written in Perl. They did all the work here and we’re immensely grateful that they decided to release it as Open...
View ArticleBootstrapping is the New VC
It looks like Odeo has acquired BlogDigger: It’s worth noting that they’ve never raised VC: I admire the way Blogdigger has diversified through the years and consistently sought out new niches within...
View ArticleAward Me Stars
It’s been known for a while that many SEOs are using link bait to attract links to help them manipulate search engine rankings: His non-operating, do-nothing program won 16 awards. Various cites...
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Massive Blog Spam Epidemic Gets More Attention
We’ve been covering a massive blog spam epidemic thanks to a nasty/evil spammer who’s exploiting a XMLRPC bug in WordPress 2.2. This issue is FINALLY getting the attention it deserves: I had a closer...
View ArticleRobot Yield
This morning I was thinking about robot blocks regarding Rich’s post about Cuill being blocked on 10k hosts. So let’s say you write a web scale crawler and you accidentally pushed a bug. It was a huge...
View ArticleUpdates on Open Source Distributed Consensus
There’s been more activity in the distributed consensus space recently. At the Hypertable talk yesterday Doug mentioned Hyperspace, their Chubby-style distributed lock manager. Though I think it’s...
View ArticleGoogle to use Intel’s SSD in Production Search Systems in Q2 2008?
This press release on Mtron’s sites is interesting: In the second half of 2008, Intel will release both high-performance SSDs for use in servers and storage, and exclusive SSD models for consumer...
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Twitter Pager Rotation.
It dawned on me that if I were working for Twitter that I would just assume the service is down unless told otherwise. This lead to the conclusion that one should invert monitoring to send off a...
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Spinn3r Hiring Senior Systems Administrator
Spinn3r is hiring for an experienced Senior Systems Administrator with solid Linux and MySQL skills and a passion for building scalable and high performance infrastructure. About Spinn3r: Spinn3r is a...
View ArticleBuffered Binary Logs…
One of the things that has always bothered me about replication is that the binary logs are written to disk and then read from disk. There is are two threads which are for the most part, unaware of...
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