Written by David Mytton

This is Sysadmin Sunday, a post of interesting links from throughout the previous week.

• New High I/O EC2 Instance Type – hi1.4xlarge – 2 TB of SSD-Backed Storage
• Benchmarking High Performance I/O with SSD for Cassandra on AWS
• HTTPie is a CLI, cURL-like tool for humans
• NoSQL datastore from the NSA
• What PHP 5.5 might look like
• Here’s why we keep getting hacked – clear and present Billabong failures
• Minimize your cloud costs with GLPK and Haskell
• We went down, so we wrote a better pure python memcache client
• HTTP/2 Expression of luke-warm interest: Varnish
• Microsoft changes skype supernodes architecture to support wiretapping
• Oracle Linux: A better alternative to CentOS
• Oracle Spreading FUD about CentOS
• Living with HTTPS

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