A long-time friend of mine started playing with his Ambient Orb a year or so ago. At the time, he explained all sorts of details of how he’d setup a Windows service and .NET providers. I remember thinking, “wow, their API must be pretty complex”.
While in Salt Lake City on vacation, I picked up an orb on sale for $50 and decided to investigate this on my own. Today, I finally got around to looking into the API, and implementing a client. After looking at the ‘API’ I decided on BASH to implement my client.
Spoiler: It’s 2 lines of bash to retrieve our current daily customer count and post it to the ambient orb API. And, before you waste your time both my Orb ID and the database password have been changed.
After combining my ’service’ with the ever powerful CRON, my Orb now updates every 15 minutes.
[tags]ambient orb, bash, intellicontact[/tags]
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I attended the fantastic BarCampRDU today. The attendees varied greatly mostly in the realm of technology professionals–everything from programmers to book pulishers. I attended sessions on “WetWare”, RNA (RESTful Notification Architecture), APP (Atom Publishing Protocol), and The Future of Publishing. I also led a discussion on “Scaling Web Applications using Free Software”. All in all, a great time networked with lots of really smart and open-minded people. Thanks to all involved for participating. Special thanks to the organizers.
[tags]BarCampRDU, barcamp, unconference[/tags]
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We continue to see the wonders of monitoring with Ganglia. I’ve put together some of the lessons we learned installing and configuring Ganglia.
Ganglia is a cluster monitoring tools developed for computing clusters. it works just as well for monitoring your servers as your ‘cluster’ grows to more machines. A cluster constitutes any set of servers on the same LAN and communicate via Multicast.
[tags]ganglia, monitoring, clustering[/tags]
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