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Putting servers under a "microscope"?

At -= 2 we had a special set of prod machines called microscopes.  These machines ran fully instrumented binaries with full logging and oodles of extra instrumentation.

For read-only services without side effects a small chunk of traffic was mirrored to the microscopes.  For mutable requests a %age was sent there.

I don't expect we'll let engineers connect Yourkit to running production code, but I would have to expect that something like this exists, right?  right?


http://faizscientific.com/faizhtml/images/hello-kitty-microscope.jpg






 

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Originally shared by Adam Rifkin

Hello Kitty Gun!

 

Luxxury - "Sweet and Vicious"

Baron von Luxxury is an old co-worker of mine from the Red Hat days selling ads for redhat.com.  Check out the cute kitty in the youtube vid above.

I can't forget the time we accidentally ran run-of-network ads and you found banner ads for Dennys and some online Hair-Net website running next to Linux content.

Or the wonderful partnership with Keen.com to provide amateur linux support over the phone.  I hear that they're mostly psychics and phone sex these days.

In any case check out Luxxury when you can get the chance.  They play all over the Bay Area at times.