In which I talk about landing my first patch in Open edX.

Earlier this month, I got on a flight to Perth, WA to make my annual trek to linux.conf.au, the largest open-source conference in the Southern Hemisphere and one of my favorite conferences on the circuit. LCA is an excellent, volunteer-run, hugely insightful conference and well worth the 26-hour …

Today, the developers released Ceph 0.61, codenamed cuttlefish. There are some interesting features in this new release, take a look.

One thing that will undoubtedly make Ceph a lot more palatable to RHEL/CentOS users is the availability of Ceph in EPEL. This was originally announced in late March …

For the upcoming OpenStack Summit in Portland, Syed Armani and I have submitted a talk on OpenStack high availability. Here’s how you can make sure it makes it into the program.

Our talk, More reliable, more resilient, more redundant: High Availability Update for Grizzly and beyond, is an extended …

linux.conf.au 2013 has kicked off this morning, and here is a brief preview of my talks and related activities this week.

This afternoon, as part of the Cloud, Distributed Storage and High Availability miniconf, I am moderating the Grand Distributed Storage Debate. In this debate, we’ll have …