Distributed Systems Tracing with Zipkin
Twitter’s version of the “canary”/”tracer” request concept
(tags: twitter zipkin tracing tracer-requests canary-requests http debugging production live distributed-systems distcomp stack infrastructure ops)
Transitioning from Google Reader to feedly
xpecting for some time: We have been working on a project called Normandy which is a feedly clone of the Google Reader API – running on Google App Engine. When Google Reader shuts down, feedly will seamlessly transition to the Normandy back end.
Excellent stuff — I’ve just tried feedly and it’s looking good — in fact it may be a better UI overall anyway.(tags: feedly google-reader transition rss atom feeds web)
Double vision: seeing both sides of Syria’s war
A skirmish is filmed, using HD video cameras, by both sides. Storyful pinpoint the location. War as panopticon
(tags: storyful war syria future tanks battle video youtube hd panopticon)
Using DiffMerge as your Git visual merge and diff tool
A decent 3-way-diff GUI merge tool which works with git on OSX. “git config” command-lines included in this blog post
(tags: git merge osx mac macosx diff mergetool merging cli diffmerge)
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A bunch of magic command lines to set useful OS X prefs without pointy-clicky. at least some also seem to work on Mountain Lion
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‘bootstrap an OSX development machine with a one-liner’.
Many teams use chef to manage their production machines, but developers often build their development boxes by hand. SoloWizard makes it painless to create a configurable chef solo script to get your development machine humming: mysql, sublime text, .bash_profile tweaks to OS-X settings – it’s all there!
(tags: osx chef mac build-out ops macosx deployment developers desktops laptops mysql rabbitmq activemq nginx)