Devops Drop 13

 Rails 3 / Active Model support

http://neo4j.rubyforge.org/guides/rails3.html

openstack / swift

https://github.com/openstack/swift

Guide to Writing Chef Cookbooks

http://jtimberman.posterous.com/guide-to-writing-chef-cookbooks

How Josh writes cookbooks (readme driven dev)

Moving an Elephant: Large Scale Hadoop Data Migration at Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/notes/paul-yang/moving-an-elephant-large-scale-hadoop-data-migration-at-facebook/10150246275318920

In 2010, Facebook had the largest Hadoop cluster in the world, with over 20 PB of storage. By March 2011, the cluster had grown to 30 PB — that’s 3,000 times the size of the Library of Congress! At that point, we had run out of power and space to add more nodes, necessitating the move to a larger data center. 

edelight / chef-solo-search

https://github.com/edelight/chef-solo-search

10.4 added data bag search for solo.. 

chefsolo-search adds library routines for search and 

ClojureScript and Node.js

http://mmcgrana.github.com/2011/09/clojurescript-nodejs.html

Cloud Breakup: Why CloudSpokes Chose Database.com Over Azure

http://www.nytimes.com/external/gigaom/2011/09/02/02gigaom-cloud-breakup-why-cloudspokes-chose-databasecom-o-65556.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

entered ga this week... 

Crowbar modularization work begins

http://robhirschfeld.com/2011/09/07/crowbar-modularization/