5 items tagged “assaf-arkin”
2009
MySQL backups with EBS snapshots. Assaf Arkin’s 45 line ruby script shows how to lock tables / XFS freeze / create an EBS snapshot / unfreeze and unlock, with hourly snapshots preserved for the past 24 hours and daily snapshots for the past week. Is an EBS snapshot enough to restore your data to somewhere other than EC2 though?
Turns out, a lot of people are saddened by the loss of a spec they don’t understand, and if they did, would not bother using.
2007
REST plays the same role as open source and open APIs: It eliminates tooling and vendoring as artificial barriers to adoption.
Net::SSH revisited (via) Dependency injection (at least in Ruby) officially isn’t cool any more.
Solid State Disk Changes The Game. “What if you had 2GB of RAM to compute, 32GB of SSD for fast random access, and 250GB of the slow kind. How would that change the way you design, and the kind of features you build?”