A big part of the DevOps responsibilities is to monitor and maintain the health of running servers. If a production server goes down, appropriate actions must be undertaken to bring…
Introduction Right now, I’m in a project where we use Google’s gerrit for code review, and JetBrains Team City for CI. Both of these tools are good by themselves, but…
A couple of days ago we ran into the infamous "too many open files" when our Tomcat web server was under load. There are several blogs around the internet that…
This is a quick write-up on how to get started with graphite as a .Net developer. We're going to start using graphite with a virtual machine in VirtualBox, although you…
Targeted environment: Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 You'll be self-signing with makecert from the Windows 7.1 SDK. The certificate tool is a single executable, specifically at %PROGRAMFILES%Microsoft…