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Using Chef Server with RabbitMQ and STOMP.

Joe Williams - February 03, 2009

I decided to play around with RabbitMQ and chef (Opscode recently released new version) this afternoon. My main objective was to see if I could replace stompserver with something a bit more robust. In this case RabbitMQ and it’s STOMP plugin, the following is a…

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fermal: a last.fm API library for Erlang.

Joe Williams - January 30, 2009

I decided to start a new project after the relative success and fun I had writing merle. This time I decided to do something a little more web-centric, a library for last.fm’s awesomely complete API called fermal. While I doubt it will eventually support the…

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CouchDB Load Balancing and Replication using HAProxy.

Joe Williams - January 27, 2009

Last night, I decided to dig into CouchDB a bit more than I have in the past and setup a simple load balanced and replicated setup using HAProxy. In the end it was a pretty easy feat and seems to work fairly well. Here’s what…

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merle 0.2 released.

Joe Williams - January 25, 2009

I have just released merle 0.2. It has some new memcached commands as well as a cleaner/easier API. This also includes some contributions from Nick Gerakines. Also note that I have removed support for direct calls to memcached, we decided it wasn’t really needed. If…

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Weekend Links.

Joe Williams - January 23, 2009

Here are a few interesting articles I have seen this week. Burstsort: Fastest known algorithm to sort large set of strings Erlang Programming for Multicore LShift : My thoughts on real time full-text search Forcing a Process to Garbage Collect in Erlang Sysenter Based System…

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Chef and ohai.

Joe Williams - January 17, 2009

The guys at Opscode recently released ohai and Chef. ohai “Ohai profiles your system and emits JSON” and “Chef is a systems management framework masquerading as a configuration management tool.” Ezra Zygmuntowicz explains the details over here. I decided to check out ohai today here’s…

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merle 0.1 release.

Joe Williams - January 16, 2009

It’s official, I have released merle 0.1. Download it here. Features: * Support for the following memcached commands : stats, version, get, delete, set, add, replace, append, prepend, cas * Supports making calls to memcached directly as well as through gen_server Let me know what…

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Merle Updates.

Joe Williams - January 15, 2009

I just pushed out some new code to github for merle. It should have some nice new treats in it for you including a new recieve loop for large objects. Just to make sure it worked properly I ran md5’s on the input and output,…

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Seattle Erlounge.

Joe Williams - January 15, 2009

For anyone in or around the Seattle metro area we are starting an Erlounge up and the first meeting is Wednesday January 21st, 7pm at the Garage. You can find more information at http://erloungeseattle.org/ Hope to see you there.

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Introducing merle : an Erlang memcached client.

Joe Williams - January 11, 2009

The last couple days I have been putting together a memcached client for Erlang called merle. At the moment it supports the gambit of memcached commands (minus the noreply option). While it is very much a work in progress and under heavy development it is…

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