Amazon AWS has some great monitoring tools for your cloud instances and other parts of your AWS cloud infrastructure. However one notable missing out-of-the box feature is the ability to monitor disk usage of your instances, something crucial for reliable large-scale deployment.
However it turns out there is a way to add custom metrics, including disk usage, that incorporate smoothly into your AWS monitoring dashboard:
Not surprisingly, HP Labs has many astronomy geeks, and after photographing my own modest Venus image I came around the other side of the building to find a crowd had gathered around several large telescopes, including one that was projecting this dinner-plate sized image of the Sun on a borrowed whiteboard. In addition to Venus, note the sunspots in the bottom left.
This is now a beta location new location for my blog. Once I sort
out some remaining formatting issues on so of the old articles on the
new location, I am going to retire the old location.
I finally decided that WordPress installation on a shared Dreamhost
server was just too slow. So I made the leap to the Jekyll platform.
Instead of hacking around in WordPress’ PHP I can now customize my
blog in Ruby and Coffeescript. And because the blog is statically
served I am hosting it out of S3, giving much faster, scalable
performance.
For those that care, you can see the
source behind the blog, which
started as a template by Kris Brown.
