jaw

• Website: www.tcp4me.com
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• Posted Yenta - a highly-available key-value store to jaw

  I have uploaded the source code for Yenta, our

  Yentas operate as a peer-to-peer network (there is no "master" node). Nodes use gossip based protocols for distributing membership + status infor…

• Posted distributed data analysis and reporting and perl, ... to jaw

  so I was asked this question regarding our users and our products
  - I quickly (less than 5 minutes) wrote up a map-reduce (+ reduce) job,
  - submitted it to our array of servers,
  - and in less than 10 seconds, I had the answ…

• Commented on On Nagios, Thunk, Shinken and wrapper included marketing
  Robert, above, asked: What are the Perl options in this area? I'm a big fan of argus, which is written entirely in perl....

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• naparuba.myid.net commented on On Nagios, Thunk, Shinken and wrapper included marketing

  Hi,

  I'm the Shinken main dev. I don't think svn->git is the major problem of Nagios. Even core dev do not want to touch the Nagios core. When you propose to add a process pool (less fork) or bypass the reaping process with socket return(no more flat file reaping, big perf boost) they say : "too difficult".
  Is it so difficult? In C, it is not trivial. Just look at Apache code for the process pool. The socket return? You need to make the protocol, the serialization of checks and the socket management (this part is not so difficult in fact).
  
  
  Look at Python or Pe…

• Sawyer X commented on On Nagios, Thunk, Shinken and wrapper included marketing

  I actually replied to this by email (since I received the comment first by email), but I'll recap the main points here:

  
  You certainly gave me a new insight into the need of rewriting Nagios core. Perhaps I don't see the immediate necessity of it as you do, but I definitely understand better why it is so important for people.

  
  Regarding performance, I do think that generally C has better performance (even though you shouldn't convert Perl to C[1]), but like you I personally write in a very high level language (Perl specifically) because the writing and maintenance…

• sve.myopenid.com commented on On Nagios, Thunk, Shinken and wrapper included marketing

  Just a quick update.
  There is a website about Thruk (www.thruk.org)
  with a few screenshots and documentation.

  Then Thruk supports themes which the user can change on the fly.

• Sawyer X commented on On Nagios, Thunk, Shinken and wrapper included marketing

  Thanks!

  How old is this website? I'm assuming it's brand new since I didn't find it before.

• sve.myopenid.com commented on On Nagios, Thunk, Shinken and wrapper included marketing

  Thats true. I created it after your blog post about 2 weeks ago.

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