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Slides for Velocity Talk 2009

  • 23. Jun
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  • Culture, Slides, Talks, Tools, WebOps
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UPDATE: blip.tv has the video of the talk as well, below. Jeez I have some major bed-head. That was a blast! I had never done a ‘duet’ talk before. Here are the slides: 10+ Deploys Per Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation at Flickr …and the video of it is here:...
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Tool update: WTF is inside filesystem cache ?

  • 27. Mar
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  • Caching, Random, Tools
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Awhile back, I said I’d love to have a tool that would allow me to peek inside filesystem cache and tell me what files (or pages of files) are inside. Well Peter Zaitsev points to the fincore tool, which comes pretty damn close: you give it a file, and it will tell you which pages...
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