Speak! How to talk in public and not wreck your voice

Posted on Thu 24 July 2014 in presentations • Tagged with Conference, OSCON, Ignite • 1 min read

An Ignite talk I presented at OSCON 2014. Decidedly non-technical, this covers vocal hygiene and how to take care of your voice.


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Hands On Trove: Database as a Service in OpenStack

Posted on Thu 27 March 2014 in presentations • Tagged with Conference, MySQL, OpenStack • 1 min read

This tutorial covered OpenStack Trove at Percona Live 2014. If you want to recreate the experience, read on!


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Fun with extended attributes in Ceph Dumpling

Posted on Mon 24 February 2014 in hints-and-kinks • Tagged with Ceph • 7 min read

This is a rather nasty bug in Ceph OSD, affecting 0.67 “Dumpling” and earlier releases. It is fixed in versions later than 0.70, and a simple workaround is available, but when it hits, this issue can be pretty painful.

Please read this post to the end. This is …


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Unrecoverable unfound objects in Ceph 0.67 and earlier

Posted on Tue 28 January 2014 in hints-and-kinks • Tagged with Ceph • 3 min read

As Ceph author Sage Weil points out frequently, distributed storage solutions for all their goodness have a “dirty little secret”: No matter just how redundant and reliable they are by design, a bug in the storage software itself can be a real issue.

And occasionally, the bug doesn’t have …


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Greetings from Havana: A fresh perspective on globally distributed OpenStack

Posted on Tue 10 December 2013 in presentations • Tagged with Conference, OpenStack • 1 min read

My second appearance at OpenStack Israel, this time with news on distributed OpenStack environments in the Havana release.


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