This is a very hand summary of daily useful tasks to be used on the command line The Art of the Command Line as the author notes, you can’t really call yourself a “true” developer, if you are not comfortable executing at least basic tasks in a shell. in fact, I would argue, I would … More The art of the command line
I have just published a gist that shows how to build and install Apache Mesos on a Ubuntu 14.04 VM or physical box. The Getting started instructions are a good start (well…) but are somewhat incomplete and currently look a bit outdated (I plan to fix them soon): however, the outcome has been that I … More Building and Installing Apache Mesos
I have just completed for a client a complete setup of a “SparkLab” on a cluster of AWS machines: the setup has been completely automated via a Bash script which I have published to this public github gist. The following is a copy of the README file there; the script can be used also on … More Building a Spark / SciPy / Cassandra “SparkLab” on AWS
Or how to achieve bi-weekly releases at SaaS scale Background Almost exactly a year ago I joined RiverMeadow: a self-described “cloud mobility” SaaS platform, with the modest task of improving a product I was told was “ready for market” and a team that only needed “some improvement, and a better adoption of Engineering best practices” – in slightly … More From null to a hundred in six months
MongoDb Replica Set startup script I was doing some development in Python agains a MongoDb backend, and I needed a quick way to set up and initialize a Mongo DB replica set. This bash script is what I eventually came up with, still a bit rough around the edges (for example, it won’t let you … More MongoDb Replica Set startup script
I’ve recently taken up the Eclipse team at Google (we integrate Google’s internal build tools and distributed development environment with the Eclipse Platform) and we are constantly faced with the challenge of maintaining several distributions in a multi-user environment.I thought I’d use some of the goodness we’ve come up with in my home environment too, … More Automating Eclipse launch
I have already mentioned in the past how much I like Mercurial as a distributed VCS, and how strongly I encourage anyone who is doing development (in team with others, or on your own) to seriously consider adopting it. However, one of the features I’ve been greatly missing is a quick way to check which … More A visual diff for Mercurial
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