Post about Configuration Management philosophy
In the last months my company started to move all our VMs from Ubuntu-based templates to CentOS ones. Regardless of the reason of this choice (I do not want to start a Ubuntu vs CentOS flame since I’m a fan of both distros) one of the biggest problem was to deal with the Apache Httpd…
Wine get better with age, and I hope also good ideas does since it took me 3-4 year before making this one real. With this post I want to introduce a new section of this blog: the Pathfinder Opensource Project. If you are working in a big company, or simply to a big software project…
Less than one week ago I’ve been one of the lucky speakers at the 11th Scandinavian Software Configuration Management Day in Lund , Sweden. In the whole academic world there are only 3 university courses on this subject, one in Brazil and the other two in Denmark and Sweden, both hold by Professor Lars Bendix, creator…
Today I want to review a really interesting video course from Packt: Building Hadoop Clusters. I’ve always been really interested in distributed system and this course proven to be a good starting point. (you can find it at http://bit.ly/1kNiHSr ) As usual you can find the teaser video on YouTube The course can be divided in 2 main…
One of the most annoying problem in ticket management is when you have to edit many issues at once, usually to finalize some release notes or other reports with correct data. Once an issue has been marked as closed by QA/Clients Jira won’t let you change it anymore (As it has to be in an…
Today’s Post is the review of one of Packets Publishings’ Video courses: Getting Started with Apache Maven Since I never watched one of these “ebooks alternatives” I was really curious to discovers how they work, so I’ll spend also a couple of minutes to review the video course platform as well. All the courses are available…
Uno degli aspetti più interessanti di maven come strumento di automazione del processo di build è sicuramente la possibilità di organizzare i nostri pom secondo una struttura gerarchica. Qualsiasi progetto maven nasce automaticamente come figlio del Super Pom, configurazione di base di maven stesso e contenuto nelle sue librerie. In questo articolo vedremo come usare…
Ok, iniziamo da qui. Da questa domanda che mi sono sentito fare innumerevoli volte, e alla quale non è mai facile dare una risposta esaustiva senza che alla maggior parte degli amici e parenti si dipinga un gigantesco punto interrogativo sopra la testa. Faccio il Configuration Manager, per i colleghi il CM. A questo punto la…
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