Understanding radosgw benchmarks

Posted on Wed 18 November 2015 in hints-and-kinks • Tagged with Ceph • 7 min read

We’ve noticed that there are a few common misconceptions around radosgw performance, and we’re hoping that this post can clear up some of those.

radosgw is of course Ceph’s RESTful object gateway. That means that you can use any client that speaks the Amazon S3 or OpenStack …


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OpenStack for Open edX: Inside and Out (SWITCH ICT-Focus 2015)

Posted on Tue 10 November 2015 in presentations • Tagged with Conference, OpenStack, Open edX • 1 min read

My presentation at SWITCH ICT-Focus 2015.


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Clusters, Routers, Agents and Networks: High Availability in Neutron

Posted on Wed 28 October 2015 in presentations • Tagged with OpenStack, Conference • 1 min read

Of everything that we can build and deploy in a highly-available fashion in OpenStack, deploying highly available networking has been one of the trickiest, most complex aspects to get right.

I team up with Adam Spiers (SUSE) and Assaf Muller (Red Hat) to discuss high availability in OpenStack Neutron.


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Automated OpenStack deployment: A comparison

Posted on Tue 27 October 2015 in presentations • Tagged with OpenStack • 1 min read

From the 2015 OpenStack Summit in Tokyo. A comparison of automated deployment tools for OpenStack.


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Open edX

Posted on Mon 12 October 2015 in presentations • Tagged with Open edX • 1 min read

Open edX is an extensible, highly scalable, open-source learning management platform. Originally conceived at MIT and Harvard University, the edx.org platform it is currently backed by more than 70 organizations world-wide and serves more than 4 million students. Since 2013, the software running edx.org is available under an …


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