cloud

That special time in a Developer’s life when a system that they’ve nurtured and cared for goes rogue, leaving behind it a desolate swath of blood & destruction.

A rather odd mix of side-projects and Ops-related chaos.

Really, that’s it. That’s my useful tip. Everything else is just me telling you a story about it.

Ruby provides some nice features for when you’re building hand-rolled health checking tools. And there are some sshd tricks to be played, too.

Because Tomcat keeps dying after about 36 hours. So, I’m gonna enable debugging and JMX remoting so that I can put JConsole to work.

it’s a good place to start.