First post: tips on finding rockstar engineers (freelancers or employees) for your startup

Introduction

when i started tribily over a year ago, one of my goals was to share as much information about it as possible, I love transparency. I'm very proud of us sharing almost all of our technology as open source projects, but there is something else i wanted to do: blogging. For the longest time I didn't go ahead and actually do it, so i'm changing that starting today. Better late then never, right?
 

Important Notice - Monitoring frontend urgent maintenance
What is going to happen?
Tomorrow morning, December 5th 2011, around 7am CET, our datacenter tech will power down our webserver and replace a failed hard drive. The operation will start at 7am and should only last a few minutesunless something goes wrong.
8 reasons to implement Configuration Management using Puppet

Like everything at a 'proper' tech startup, resources are limited at tribily. Combine that with the fact that all sysadmins are lazy, and we had a clear need to automate as much as possible. There are many factors involved in properly automating a linux system administration environment, and we have made our toolset more complete over time. I'll write on a bunch of the tools involved in the future, highlighting one every time. I'll start today by one of my personal favorites in the DevOps scene: Puppet

 

Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP): 6 Questions to ask yourself

Just last week we were hit by a degraded RAID array in one of our web servers. Even though the fix was easy enough and the impact was low, it did shake me up and made me ask myself some very important questions (again).

Getting rid of dependency on google services: piwik

Moving away from google services can sometimes be easier then you'd think