TLDR: The people pushing AI will end up indirectly killing you before you lose your job. The amount of resources it takes to run the computers for training this artificial (un)intelligence will cause the Earth’s temperature to increase to such a point that crops will fail and glaciers will melt causing water levels to rise. […]
This is a post describing how to use an Azure Application Gateway (layer 7 load balancer/reverse proxy) in front of a multi-node Tableau Server installation while allowing a web application to generate Trusted Authentication tokens. I wrote this post so that there would be some sort of documentation available to other people to help them […]
So I am researching Jumbo Frames on my network (because something lead me to think that I had been doing it wrong) and I come across multiple articles describing how to test by using the ping command. They explicitly state to set the “don’t fragment” bit on the command and use a payload the size […]
This setup is for my libvirt/KVM virtualization environment. There are lots of tutorials out there but none that showed exactly what I wanted nor how I wanted to accomplish it (ie by using non-interactive CLI tools). I wanted to configure my virtual host with one NIC for management traffic (ie SSH to the host) and […]
Amazon has a new service that can make using Hashicorp Terraform even easier. From the AWS service page: AWS CloudShell is a browser-based shell that makes it easy to securely manage, explore, and interact with your AWS resources. CloudShell is pre-authenticated with your console credentials. Common development and operations tools are pre-installed, so no local […]
Following up from my previous post, I finally got my new “InternetHog” Internet connection from Citynet the other day and it sure is nice. The outside installers ran an aerial drop to the house the week prior to the inside installers arriving to finish the work. The subscriber drop cable was brought in from two poles […]
TL;DR : Turn off swap completely. A properly designed and tuned Hadoop system will not need it. So there you are, minding your Hadoop cluster, when alerts start to come in: The hosts are swapping! Oh, the horror! The end is nigh! Why do we even have this horrible swap space? But all is not […]
I have finally decided to bite the bullet and get Fibre to the Home (FTTH) installed at the house. CityNet installed fibre to the poles around my community last year and is offering gigabit Internet access speeds. I would have signed up as soon as it was available, but I have had to upgrade my […]
I got a chance to speak to Hadoop folks at this years Pune Data Conference held in Pune, India. My talk is titled Admins: Smoke Test Your Hadoop Cluster! This is the abstract: Software smoke testing is a preliminary level of testing. It makes certain that all of the primary components of a system are […]
Now that the two Hadoop distribution giants have merged, it is time to call out what will happen to their overlapping software offerings. The following are my predictions: Ambari is out – replaced by Cloudera Manager.This is a no-brainer for anyone that has used the two tools. People can rant and rave about open source […]
