This post is based on our talk at Puppet Camp Ghent. See our separate page for all our talk videos and slides about how Puppet is used to manage the [...]

This is a guest post by Charity Majors, a full stack systems geek who is currently building exciting things at Parse. She likes sed and awk and peaty scotches. We [...]

Tom wasn’t the only one having fun at LeedsHack last month! One idea idea I’ve had a for while now, mostly since seeing a talk on Github’s Hubot at a conference last year and writing hippybot , is [...]

When the Qantas A380 suffered engine failure after taking off from Singapore in November last year, many things went wrong at the same time: The failure of the giant Rolls-Royce [...]

Pricing servers used to be fairly simple, and still is in many cases. There are a number of variables – memory, storage, CPU, data transfer – which are combined to [...]

When we first started with our server monitoring tool, Server Density, we had a single slice at Slicehost. Those were simple times – if it or any service running on [...]

We recently had one of our MongoDB database slaves go out of sync which requires a full resync from scratch. Because we have our slaves in a different data centre, [...]

Back in January we released a feature which uses a server’s hostname as a unique key, in addition to the agent key. This allows you to install the Server Density [...]

One feature in our server monitoring application, Server Density, and indeed the one I had quite a bit of fun developing, is our cloud provider support. To clarify, we deem [...]

Last week we announced integration into a number of popular cloud provider APIs for our server monitoring service, Server Density. This functionality helps with administration when adding lots of servers, [...]