Solaris, ClusterIt

• A new root shell
  
• DTrace TCP and UDP Providers, new in opensolaris
  
• Managing 100s of Linux and Solaris machines with clusterit
  
• The Story: ClusterIt
  
• Letting The Data Tell Its Own Story
  
• [PDF] The Modular Debugger, 96 pages
  
• No space left on device
  

Sendmail, Log Files

• sendmail
  
• Configuring Sendmail on the Solaris 9 Platform
  
• Where are all the log files ?
  

Other Links

• FAN: Fully Automated Nagios
  
• Linux Tuning, ip sysctl
  
• graph-theory-algorithms-book
  
• Sage is a free open-source mathematics software system licensed under the GPL. It combines the power of many existing open-source packages into a common Python-based interface.
  
• Where Tcl and Tk Went Wrong
  
• Distributed data processing with Hadoop, Part 1: Getting started
  
• Learning from StackOverflow.com
  
• Joel Spolsky: A Visit to Microsoft and Google
  
• The Most Important Programming Language Today
  Navigate a Grid Using Combinations And Permutations
  
• Tsung is an open-source multi-protocol distributed load testing tool
  
• Calculating 316 million movie correlations in 2 minutes (down from 2.5 hours)
  
• An Introduction to CouchDB
  
• 28 Rich Data Visualization Tools
  
• Using gnuplot to display data in your Web pages
  
• [PDF] Building and Installing a Hadoop/MapReduce Cluster from Commodity Components: a case study
  
• Sun Crossbow
  

Perl Links

• Famous Perl One-Liners Explained, Part I: File Spacing
  
• Famous Perl One-Liners Explained, Part II: Line Numbering
  
• Famous Perl One-Liners Explained, Part III: Calculations
  
• Famous Perl One-Liners Explained, Part IV: String and Array Creation
  
• Famous Perl One-Liners Explained, Part V: Text conversion and substitution
  
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Python Links

• The Python Web services developer: The power of three: Python, Web services, and XSLT
  
• PyMOTW: BaseHTTPServer
  
• BaseHTTPServer – base classes for implementing web servers
  
• PyMOTW: sys, Part 1: Interpreter Settings
  
• PyMOTW: sys, Part 2: Runtime Environment
  
• PyMOTW: sys, Part 3: Memory Management and Limits
  
• PyMOTW: sys, Part 4: Exception Handling
  
• PyMOTW: sys, Part 5: Tracing Your Program As It Runs
  
• PyMOTW: sys, Part 6: Low-level Thread Support
  
• Book Excerpt: Chapter 6: Functions and Functional Programming, from Python Essential Reference, 4th Ed
  
  

Shell Script Links

• Clear up those temporary files
  
• Reading a file, line by line
  
• sed one-liners
  
• Splitting Strings Natively with the Shell: Native vs Native
  
• Splitting Strings Natively with the Shell: Why
  
• Peering into pipes
  
• How to Leave scripts running when you logoff, and exit nicely when sent a SIGTERM signal
  
• Book Excerpt: A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming - Chapter 12: The AWK Pattern Processing Language
  
• [PDF] Chapters from A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors and Shell Programming
  Make sudo Work Harder
  
• Copying directory trees, continued
  

Solaris 10, DTrace, ZFS, ...

• [PDF] Solaris 10 Security, Techanical Deep Dive, Updated for Solaris 10 10/09, Glenn Brunette, 98 pages
  
• [PDF] Advanced Solaris 10: Containers and ZFS, Immersion Week Mexio 2007, 67 pages
  
• [PDF] Solaris 10 Workship Service Management Facility, Bod Netherton, 150 pages
  
• [PDF] Solaris 10 and Right Management, Scott Dickson, 57 pages
  
• [PDF] Solaris 10 Adoption and Minimization, Lessons Learned, Issac Rozenfeld
  
• [PDF] VMWare on Sun Quick Start Guide, v1.5, Ron Graham, Jan 2009, 10 pages
  
• DTrace by Example
  
• Using DTrace to Understand mpstat and vmstat output
  
• [PDF] Solaris 10 DTrace Workshop, Bob Netherton & Scotton Dickson, 164 pages
  
• [PDF] DTrace and DTrace Toolkit 0.96, Stefan Parvu
  
• Top Ten DTrace (D) Scripts
  
• D Script Archeology
  
• Creating a Flash Archive Recovery Image
  
• Locking Down Apache
  
• [PDF] Configure Oracle Solaris ZFS for an Oracle Database, 16 pages
  
• ZFS Deduplication, by Jeff Bonwick
  
• Community ONE ZFS Presentation
  
• Max Bruning at CommunityOne: Solaris Device Drivers
  
• Solaris Auditing (BSM) in the Real World
  
• ASR Fault Coverage
  
• Creating a Solaris 10 x86 OS Bootable DVD or CD
  
• [PDF] Tuning Parallel Code on the Solaris Operating System - Lessons Learned From HPC, 56 pages
  
• How to Leave scripts running when you logoff, and exit nicely when sent a SIGTERM signal
  

sed Tutorial

sed (stream editor) is damn efficient and powerful. Most of the people, including myself, only use the basic features. Below links covered both basic and advanced stuff. I managed to use some of the advanced stuff to write the split csv exercise. It is as efficient as my python script

• Printing File Lines using Address and Patterns
  
• Delete File Lines Using Address and Patterns
  
• Find and Replace Text Inside a File Using RegEx
  
• How To Write to a File Using Sed
  
• How To Execute Multiple Sed Commands
  
• Advanced Sed Substitution Examples
  
• Multi-Line File Operation with 6 Practical Examples
  
• Append, Insert, Replace, and Count File Lines
  
• 7 Examples for Sed Hold and Pattern Buffer Operations
  

Scalability Links

• 10 Ways to Take your Site from One to One Million Users by Kevin Rose
  
• MySQL Scale-Out
  
• Challenges in Building Large-Scale Information Retrieval Systems - Jeff Dean, Google, video
  
• High Performance at Massive Scale – Lessons learned at Facebook
  
• Scalability, Availability & Stability Patterns (197 slides)
  
• How FarmVille Scales to Harvest 75 Million Players a Month
  
• Sify.com Architecture - A Portal at 3900 Requests Per Second
  

A Place For Me To Keep My Links

Just started another blog. This is simply a place for me to keep my links