Catchy title eh? I have decided that all of the issues of global warming can be attributed to programmers. Lazy programmers. “What is he talking about?” I hear shouted from the fourth row. I am talking about the extremely common mantra of “just throw hardware at the problem”. Instead of [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Scalability'
Programmers are causing global warming
January 12th, 2007 · 4 Comments
Tags: Scalability · The Right Way (TM)
Follow-up to milliondollarhomepage.com DDoS
January 18th, 2006 · No Comments
The founder of the site is now blogging about the issue.
[tags]DDOS,Denial of Service Attack[/tags]
Tags: DDoS · Scalability
New article about DDoS target
January 18th, 2006 · No Comments
Interesting. Generally there isn’t much coverage about a DDoS/Blackmail attempt while it’s going on (most target companies don’t reveal to the public they are under attack. I guess when you make a million dollars, others are always going to try and take a piece of it.
Million Dollar Homepage under DDoS Attack.
[tags]DDOS, Denial of [...]
Tags: DDoS · Scalability
The silliness of open recursive DNS servers
January 16th, 2006 · 1 Comment
It always amazes me how many open recursive DNS servers there are in the world. An open recursive server is a DNS server that does recursive queries for ANYONE that queries them. Why is this bad? Well, for one they open you up to DNS reflector attacks (more on those in another [...]
Tags: DDoS · Scalability · The Right Way (TM)
When good ideas go bad
January 16th, 2006 · 1 Comment
Generally, you would think a RAID monitoring solution would be a good thing. Well, sometimes good things can go VERY bad.
I was working on trouble shooting a performance problem with high traffic Oracle server. Every 8-10 seconds, I/O wait on the machine would spike to about 90-95%, causing all the Oracle processes to [...]
Tags: Scalability · The Right Way (TM)
Good DDoS info site
December 19th, 2005 · No Comments
This site is one of the better “collection” sites with all things related to DDoS attacks, worms etc.
David Dittrich’s site
[tags]DDOS, Denial of Service Attack[/tags]
Tags: DDoS · Scalability
How can so many people outgrow their data centers?
December 17th, 2005 · 2 Comments
This post on slashdot is comical to me. How can so many large (and well funded) companies need to move data centers? This smells like either: (a) An excuse for hardware problems, or (b) Their app is so horribly unscalable, they need a bazillion servers to handle the load. Unfortunately, it’s all [...]
Tags: Scalability · The Right Way (TM)
What is this?
November 18th, 2005 · No Comments
This will be my ongoing blog for talking about all things that are infrastructure related. That includes DDoS, development, security etc.
Tags: Scalability