What is Digg?52 Comments
- kevinrose, on 10/12/2007, -0/+73Ahh yes, I remember when I taught Ron the ol' ls command...
- johanm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+34ah i remember when i taught Kevin how to use a mouse
"no Kevin the other way... no... not like that...let me just show you" - sclifford, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24"...right before I taught him rm -rf "
- Bisqwit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Bonus points for using the pipe from Super Mario Bros!
- MasterChi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Direct link to the "Admin++, what root never told you" by Ron Gorodetzky(warning it is PDF):
http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale5x/presentations/gorodetzky.pdf - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13Yeah. Ron doesn't know how good he has it. I know I'm going to get dugg down for this, but I really hope he sees this comment:
You don't know what growing pains are until you've been charged to roll out 35 Sun V880s in one weekend, by yourself, and you arrive to discover that they're not only not in the colo space yet, but still in boxes on a truck. And imagine having to do it with exactly ZERO downtime in the application for which they were ordered, no "we'll be right back" or "while you're waiting, here are some cool links". No. Absolutely transparant. Quit your whining. Digg is simply not all that. - ringo380, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Sounds to me like the presentation was intentionally simplified, probably for comedic value. Almost like a Dimitri Martin bit.
"Equipment can't hear your threats of violence." - macfanboi, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10This guy is a senior system admin? Was this presentation given to 12 year olds?
"first step is usually putting the database on a separate server from the front end"
"You'll need to use “enterprise” networking equipment"
"Don't waste time making your own cables!" - spookyttws, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I love the "don't waste your time making your own cables" remark We're taught it's so much cheaper and the like, but truly time and quality become such a bigger issue than saving 30 cents a foot.
- timdorr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Yeah, compressing the JS files and reducing their number is probably a good start.
- geronimo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I wasn't aware of these:
http://www.cfengine.org/
http://reductivelabs.com/projects/puppet/index.html
http://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/bcfg2
http://trac.t7a.org/isconf/
This looks like a good replacement for nagios:
http://www.zabbix.com/
He mentioned IPMI.. If you get a SIMSO card you can remotely attach cd roms. Remotely management is key for me, locally they wanna charge $400 per mbit, 2 hours away it's $40/mbit. - ThinkBox, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Is it bad I thought of Captain Ron? - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103924/
- domr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Digg's infrastructure is pretty damn good and I think a lot of thought has been put into it.
But I do think a little less thought has been put into the front-end of the site, particularly the Javascript usage. I really think it's time the off-the-shelf AJAX scripts (prototype/scriptaculous) were replaced with something a little less bloated versions. - timdorr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Zabbix is great. We use it at my company for monitoring. Definitely a whole hell of a lot easier to set up than nagios.
- mrfish, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"Linux was mentioned in the first sketch of the first episode of Comedy Central's Chappelle's Show. This is likely why it was such a success."
Last point on last page. I agree! lol. - rgoro, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7The Dark Tipper taught me everything I know.
- Troopy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I have recently taken a Unix/Network admin position at a large company and all the stuff in his presentation rings true.
Thanks Ron for a good read and some sound advice. - netzdamon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3To the people who keep saying compress the javascript files, if you have done research mod_gzip can cause some very strange problems to javascript files when compressed. Hit google up. Assuming this is why digg has not done this yet. Not saying it's impossible but there are known problems doing so.
- anitab83, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Now if only someone would teach him the "add more servers" and "add more bandwidth" commands so we don't have to wait 20 seconds just to view and add a comment.
As I've stated before, I'm in the "I love Digg and would be willing to pay for faster access" camp. I always read the front page, but get so frustrated waiting for page refreshes that I rarely have the patience to go through the upcoming stories as I'd like to. - SjRaptor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I saw his presentation at SCALE 5x, and it was in my opinion the best talk all weekend. I really enjoyed it, thanks Ron.
- spookyttws, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What will be really interesting is Future Digg, once they fix all the little stuff, moving on to actually caching articles and the like.
- Nogger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It does for Internet Explorer 6 prior to SP2. So you just ship IE
- pigg123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Props to the links for added resources at the end.
- webaj, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Zabbix is good but check out.
Open Source:
Hyperic http://www.hyperic.com/products/index.html
Zenoss http://zenoss.com
Closed but free for under 30 items.
BixData http://www.bixdata.com - BigJuiceMan, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4What adverts? dooood...get FireFox (and AdBlock, FlashBlock and NoScript).
- dlsspy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1cfengine is awesome. I'd heard about it for quite a while, but when I looked at it, it seemed to have no concept of security. When version 2 came around, they'd put a lot of thought into the security model, so I didn't have an excuse to not play with it.
It was like getting a junior sysadmin to work for you for free. Even if you've only got a single machine, you can tell it to do stuff like cleanups and validating certain config aspects and stuff using built-in mechanisms that save tons of time. - gorndog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1At the end of the presentation someone noted how Ron had covered many of the processes of ITIL (configuration mgmt, change mgmt, availability mgmt, capacity mgmt) and asked if that was the framework he was following.
Ron said he wasn't familiar with ITIL.
Too bad ... it might be useful to them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITIL - MasterChi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Mirror of PDF just incase the original link goes down (links to spread-it.com)
http://tinyurl.com/2rvcnp - dinergy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1is there a podcast of the presentation available? i would like to hear it instead of looking at some slides.
- antdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I remember that TV series. [grin]
- staticpage, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I don’t know it could be a bad thing too. working behind a guy that just fill all the ports with cable then mislabeled a bunch would be a headache, not to mention if keystones are not used they would not be tested.
- DeskFlyer, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Most annoying adverts ever.
- prockcore, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3I'm not sure Digg is the best example. Digg's server to pages served ratio is pretty obscene. Maybe there should be more focus on getting those requests-per-second up rather than simply adding more servers.
- 3p0cHx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Wire every possible port." - The more I think about this the more it makes great sense. There's nothing worse than going into a switch and pulling or patching ports inside a rats nest. Instead, spend the time when first setting up the switch and put a cable in every port, then label the cable. That way, if a cable is not being used, it can be hung off to the side. Rather than pulling the cable and causing another port/cable to become disconnected, and getting a phone call. This could be done for every server, or other piece of hardware - searching for a spare serial cable sucks as well.
- ilovecelebs, on 11/28/2007, -0/+0Quite interesting.
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http://www.healthinsurancequoteportal.info - forexproject, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Not too impressed by this presentation.... probably indicative of Digg being down pretty often lately.
- lifeandtimes, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Thanks for posting this. I'm an aspiring web developer and this stuff is great reading, thanks again. Scaling is not something I had considered in the beginning, so, this is a good eye opener.
- quellish, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Adverts so aggressive, you can't even follow the links.
Poor, poor Gecko. - niteryder007, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0"Senior System Admin"
Yet another example of how job titles are useless. - simpleid, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3"realtime-ish data... etc."
...ok, this presentation was to whom? I don't even want to go through the rest of it, this is kind of embarrassing to have out. 6 years huh? Most 21-22 year olds are smarter. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1pretty lame presentation, in his race to spew as many trendy jargon vagaries as possible he forgot to tout virtualization
- stigsb, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Did anyone else notice the "Internet" pipe used in these slides, isn't that the one from Super Mario bros?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+4Some interesting stuff in there.
Saying that, isn't Digg the slowest site on the web? Should we be listening to this guy? - luckynas, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0yyoyo where is the vi
dont tell me you use pico - bmeshier, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Worthless read. Nothing a entry level sys admin couldn't spew out in 5 minutes. Dugg down.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2Thats great, kevin. Next, can you teach him what "apachectl graceful" does?
I mean jesus goddamn christ, man. Is there no one in SF that knows anything about how to run a server? - Cubedude04, on 10/12/2007, -11/+5@kevinrose Ahh yes, I remember when I taught Ron the ol' ls command...
I thought that was a joke post until i saw the name.
Interesting read =). - grendelboogie, on 10/12/2007, -10/+3Yay, Ron!
- MrPresident13, on 10/12/2007, -17/+1kevin, where is the LA live show going to be?
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