Engineering Manager, type system nerd, Rust enthusiast, supporter of social justice, loving husband & father, avid comic & manga reader, 日本語を勉強してる。
Platform-As-A-Service hosting platforms like Heroku are really starting to shine. Today, Heroku announced an experimental feature that is really exciting to me - Pipelines [https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2013/7/10/heroku-pipelines-beta]. With this, you can run your entire lengthy build process on…
Brandon Konkle
Over the past couple of weeks I've had the opportunity to dig in to Postgres 9's streaming replication. What I found was a relatively easy way to configure a system for basic replication with very impressive speed. Postgres's streaming replication is an enhancement to the log-shipping warm standby t…
Brandon Konkle
I recently moved Pegasus News [http://www.pegasusnews.com] from Perlbal, Lighttpd, and Apache to Nginx and uWSGI. We balance the traffic between 3 physical servers, and the systems were struggling under the load even after weeks of Apache conf tweaking. We began having issues with excessively slow p…
Brandon Konkle
A couple of years ago, I write a post [http://brandonkonkle.com/blog/2008/dec/9/automated-webfaction-dns-override-updates/] including a snippet to automatically update your DNS overrides with WebFaction. That script served my purpose well until I moved to an ISP that gave me a static IP. Recently,…
Brandon Konkle
At Pegasus News, we run custom deploy scripts that use pip to read through a requirements.txt file and keep our virtualenvs up to date. We use quite a few 3rd-party Django apps that we pull from PyPi, along with several apps - both internal and 3rd-party - from Github and Bitbucket. I'm a huge fan o…
Brandon Konkle