The Cult of Gary

Experts Exchange drives me crazy. When I’m trying to solve a problem and I click an Experts Exchange link, I feel like I’ve been duped and I’ll never get those precious seconds back. I’ve been complaining loudly about this to my friends off and on for a while. One of them suggested a solution the [...]

I’ve been playing around with Ganglia for the past couple of days, trying to make it to work with EC2. It was a bit of an adventure. There are two keys for running Ganglia on EC2: use unicast and set send_metadata_interval.
Amazon doesn’t support multicast on their network, so the default configs for Ganglia don’t work. [...]

I’ve been meaning to describe how I handle EC2 and Puppet in an automated way. Part of the problem is getting your host certificates signed.
That question came up on Stack Overflow, so I described my solution there.