Quick How-To for DRBD + MySQL + LVS
I wrote this up a while ago and decided that I didn’t want to lose it in a shuffle of documents during my transition to a new workstation. It’s the basics of setting up Heartbeat (LVS) + DRBD (block...
View ArticleBash scripting: an improved init.d service for LogStash
LogStash is a great program, but I’m not going to get into that topic right now. So simply put, if you are aware of LogStash being great and are using it but feel like you need an init script to run it...
View ArticleBash scripting: ElasticSearch and Kibana init.d scripts
As a follow up to the previous post about logstash, here are a couple of related init scripts for anyone implementing the OpenSource Log Analytics setup that is explained over at divisionbyzero. These...
View ArticleThe InnoDB Quick Reference Guide is now available
I’m pleased to announce that my first book, the InnoDB Quick Reference Guide, is now available from Packt Publishing and you can download it by clicking here. It covers the most common topics of InnoDB...
View ArticleOpenVZ and Amazon S3: how to solve the dreaded connection throttle failure
Sometimes we encounter odd application responses that seem to make no sense. One of these such issues is related to running virtual server instances (OS Containers not Para-Virtualized VMs) and...
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Building a MySQL Private Cloud: Step 1
Building clusters is usually a fun time. Here’s one of my setups at the Equinix LAX1 facility that is being used for VPN services, OpenVZ clustering, and general RADIUS and MySQL clustering...
View ArticleCloudflare, now offering to be your Single Point of Failure
There have been many articles about the downtime issue with Cloudflare last week, so I won’t get into the technical details of that. However, there’s the fine print to remember. Consider this a subtle...
View ArticleHow to fix the Percona repo failure when installing Percona Toolkit
Here’s a solution to the not-so-long-standing issue of the Percona yum repo being broken for the CentOS 6 x86_64 version of the Percona-toolkit package. The repo listing is reporting an older version...
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