Info-graphic: AppDynamics Customer Survey

Written on December 14, 2011 – 8:58 am | by William Jimenez |

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Vyatta Routing Platform

Written on September 22, 2011 – 1:30 am | by William Jimenez |

Been experimenting with Vyatta lately. So far the results have been good overall. There are a lot of issues that I have faced with Vyatta, but the potential for it becoming a powerful contender in the enterprise routing space are promising. Pros: Powerful features – Everything from BGP to active/active HA Debian user-land – Familiar command interface speeds [...]

Zynga’s Infrastructure: A blend of private and public clouds

Written on March 30, 2011 – 12:55 am | by William Jimenez |

If anyone has proven that socially charged gaming is a viral commodity, Zynga has. And at 215+ Million users, Zynga’s infrastructure has to be rock solid to keep up. The company’s culture centers around play and recreation; but after doing some research on their infrastructure, delivering massive amounts of content reliably and with flexible scale is some serious business.

Elastic Beanstalk? It’s not a fairytale, Amazon disruptes the market once again

Written on January 25, 2011 – 1:01 am | by William Jimenez |

Amazon.com is easy to label as the 500 pound gorilla in the market of cloud computing services–and rightly so. They are one of the pioneers in innovative service oriented technologies, and have a strong hold on the market. They definitely have not become complacent in their standing however, and their newest technology dubed “Elastic Beanstalk” is good evidence. I really can’t [...]

Experimenting with Jruby

Written on October 30, 2010 – 2:46 am | by William Jimenez |

A colleague of mine recently recommended that I try to solve an automation issue that I was facing with a hybrid language called Jruby. The concept seemed rather pointless at first inquriy…

Why Cloud Applications will Replace Virtual Servers in the Cloud

Written on October 2, 2010 – 7:05 pm | by William Jimenez |

Could Virtual Servers in the cloud like Amazon’s EC2 and the Rackspace Cloud be old news in a few years? Many of the key decision makers in the industry say such a evolution is not only realistic, but close in sight. Platform-as-a-Service (or PAAS) as it is called, is next step in the development of more efficient, [...]

Is Facebook Connect really hard to get to work?

Written on September 16, 2010 – 5:53 pm | by William Jimenez |

It seems like trying to use the singe-sign-on type functionality to integrate content with Facebook’s rich user base is a more than a little cumbersome to implement. I tried to implement it on several sites that I collaborate on or manage…..

Logwatch: a Must Have tool

Written on September 5, 2010 – 4:00 pm | by William Jimenez |

There are always those little programs in a systems administrator’s repertoire that seldom seem to get much attention or recognition, but truly are some of the most useful of the tools used.

Zenoss Community Edition

Written on September 5, 2010 – 3:45 pm | by William Jimenez |

Zenoss Core is a powerful, open-source, network monitoring and management software for businesses with enterprise level needs.