Presentation accepted for OpenStack Spring 2012 Conference

Posted on Wed 28 March 2012 in blog • Tagged with Conference, OpenStack • 1 min read

I just learned that my presentation is going ahead at the OpenStack Spring 2012 Conference.

My presentation, Reliable, Redundant: High Availability in OpenStack, has been accepted for the main conference track. The official schedule isn’t yet up pending confirmation from all speakers, but I’ve been tentatively informed that …


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High Availability in OpenStack

Posted on Wed 21 March 2012 in blog • 3 min read

A few thoughts on high availability features (or the current absence thereof) in OpenStack.

I’ve just proposed a session for the OpenStack Folsom design summit which Jay Pipes was nice enough to invite me to (thanks!), and I thought I’d write up a few thoughts of mine ahead …


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On my (ex-)maintainership of the DRBD User's Guide

Posted on Tue 20 March 2012 in blog • Tagged with DRBD • 2 min read

Here’s a quick summary of my past and current relationship with the DRBD User’s Guide.

As you probably know, I created the original DRBD User’s Guide several years back, and I maintained it throughout my time at Linbit. When I left last year, it was originally mutually …


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Ceph: tickling my geek genes

Posted on Thu 08 March 2012 in blog • Tagged with Ceph • 3 min read

Haven’t heard of Ceph, the open-source distributed petascale storage stack? Well, you’ve really been missing out. It’s not just a filesystem. It’s a filesystem, and a striped/replicated block device provider, and a virtualization storage backend, and a cloud object store, and then some.

Most of …


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Speaking at the 2012 Percona Live MySQL Conference

Posted on Mon 27 February 2012 in blog • Tagged with Conference, MySQL • 2 min read

This year, I have the pleasure of returning to the MySQL Conference & Expo as a speaker. Percona have picked up the torch that O’Reilly had held as the conference organizers, and they’re putting together a 3-day conference this year. I am co-presenting a tutorial with Yves Trudeau from …


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