fighting the lack of good ideas
Several years ago I had the good fortune to have a burger paired with cream cheese on a rye bun. And a few years later I had a burger on a bagel. I’ve also enjoyed bagels on Arnold sandwich thins. Combining the best of both of these ideas, try bagel burgers (or on bagel thins)…
I don’t like sour cream (not when I know it’s there, at least). However, I do like creamy baked potatoes. And I like cheesy baked potatoes. My solution? Cream cheese instead of sour cream! Directions: bake potato(es) to desired doneness split in “Wendy’s” fashion (perforate with a fork, and squeeze the ends perpendicular to the…
Following-up a recent post on copyrights, I want to share some further thoughts I have on the topic, and about patents, too. First of all, the concept of a copyright is meant to protect the author from others unduly benefiting from their work. One obvious conclusion to make from that statement is that after the…
This is going to ramble a bit, and I’m not 100% sure my opinions are even remotely reasonable, but I had a great conversation on the Gold Standard recently, and thought sharing that would be fun. The quoted sections are relevant parts of the conversation from my friend*, and the unquoted segments are my responses….
Last time I talked about storage robustifiers. In the context of a couple applications with which I am familiar, I want to discuss ways to approach balancing storage types and allocations. Storage Overview Core requirements of any modern server, from a storage standpoint, are the following: RAM swap Base OS storage OS/application log storage Application…
In part 2, I introduced SAN/NAS devices, and in part 1, I looked as the more basic storage type, DAS. Today we’ll look at redundancy and bundling/clustering of storage as a start of a robust storage approach. Before I go any further, please note I am not a “storage admin” – I have a pretty broad…
Continuing my series on storage strategies and options (see part 1), today I want to briefly look at SAN and NAS options. First, storage area networks. SANs are “dedicated network[s] that provides access to consolidated, block level data storage”. Storage presented to a target server appears to the machine as if it is a “real”…