A Smooth Sea Never Made a Skillful Sailor

I just found out about a RHEL initiative to offer "software collections" which to me seems similar to Ubuntu's private repositories. From the announcement "Software Collections allow you to build and install applications without being constrained by the default versions that are installed on your system. Say you want to deploy an application that requires MariaDB 5.5 and PHP 5.4 or Python 3.3 on a system running CentOS 6.5. You don’t want to have to deploy a new OS. You don’t want to compile your own, and you may have other applications that depend on the system versions of those components." This certainly offers a very flexible option to install software on your RHEL servers. There is of course EPEL but this comes with the official RHEL support. This solves a number of my problems. Security audits always flag httpd packages on my servers as insecure just by looking at the major versions. Yes, there are ways to limit flags in our audit tools but it's not...

From the site: "MobaXterm is an enhanced terminal for Windows with an X11 server, a tabbed SSH client and several other network tools for remote computing (VNC, RDP, telnet, rlogin). MobaXterm brings all the essential Unix commands to Windows desktop, in a single portable exe file which works out of the box". In the past few years of working with Open Source and Hadoop, I've come to rely on terminal emulators to interact with my servers. You have many options and I've used Cygwin and Console2 before but ever since I've come across MobaXterm, I haven't looked back. MobaXterm is a very stable terminal emulator with SSH. It includes a bunch of additional features like multiexec, which duplicates your terminal activity in additional tabs, so in other words if you'd like to execute the same command on multiple servers, SSH to all the servers and start typing out your commands, it will just work. It supports extensions, Git, SVN and a bunch more are available, ...

We're always looking at improving our realtime processing and over the past six months or so I've been looking at Apache Storm and IBM Streams. There are a few others like LinkedIn's Samza and Spark Streaming but I haven't had a chance to look into them. I will leave my findings for another post but for now, I have great news for people getting started with Streams. IBM began open-sourcing their Streams toolkits. Here's the announcement and links for those interested. The other most awesome news as far as I'm concerned is that IBM Streams is now able to run within a YARN application. I mean, with Apache Slider project announcement recently this would've been a natural thing but I'm glad IBM released it even before any work on Slider was done and Streams is compatible with Hadoop 2.2. This is definitely a step in the right direction if Streams wants a piece of Storm's marketshare. I am genuinely excited about the news. On a side note, I'm going...

If you can read this and it successfully redirects to http://blog.ervits.com then I've ported my blogger blog to my own domain correctly :). Currently it says I need to wait 24hrs to correctly redirect, so fingers crossed. In the last few years I've moved on from relational world and have embrased NoSQL. For the past two years I've been working with Hadoop, HBase and other tools in the ecosystem. I am going to share my discoveries along the way so stay tuned.. Thanks UPDATE: fixed redirect for the blog