http://blog.negonation.com/en/glider-awards-1st-edition-august-2006/ Justice is ripe for disruption Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:59:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://blog.negonation.com/en/glider-awards-1st-edition-august-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-95702 Старый Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:59:57 +0000 http://blog.negonation.com/en/glider-awards/#comment-95702 Хорошо же вы пишете. Тоже хотелось бы научиться. Уже давно была мысль завести блог. Боюсь только читать никто не будет. Хорошо же вы пишете. Тоже хотелось бы научиться. Уже давно была мысль завести блог. Боюсь только читать никто не будет.

]]> http://blog.negonation.com/en/glider-awards-1st-edition-august-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-1122 Negonation Blog » Blog Archive » Gilder Awards (2nd Round) Fri, 15 Dec 2006 08:01:20 +0000 http://blog.negonation.com/en/glider-awards/#comment-1122 [...] At Negonation, every time we complete a milestone we want to reward the efforts of our collaborators. [...] [...] At Negonation, every time we complete a milestone we want to reward the efforts of our collaborators. [...]

]]> http://blog.negonation.com/en/glider-awards-1st-edition-august-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-1073 Negonation Blog » Blog Archive » Negonation Update - 19 August 2006 Tue, 07 Nov 2006 14:05:20 +0000 http://blog.negonation.com/en/glider-awards/#comment-1073 [...] First of all I would like to publicly congratulate the winners of the 1st Edition of the Glider Awards: José Luis Gordo, Ernesto Jiménez and Juanse Pérez. Despite our fears, the system has worked. The collaborators chose wisely. It’s difficult to think of people who deserved it more. [...] [...] First of all I would like to publicly congratulate the winners of the 1st Edition of the Glider Awards: José Luis Gordo, Ernesto Jiménez and Juanse Pérez. Despite our fears, the system has worked. The collaborators chose wisely. It’s difficult to think of people who deserved it more. [...]

]]> http://blog.negonation.com/en/glider-awards-1st-edition-august-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-1061 Negonation Blog » Blog Archive » Glider Awards: Congratulations to the winners Tue, 24 Oct 2006 15:45:48 +0000 http://blog.negonation.com/en/glider-awards/#comment-1061 [...] There’s a cliché which says that only bad systems administrators are known while good ones are invisible for the rest of the team. No-one remembers sysadmins when everything is running smoothly, the only thing you’re concerned with is the person in charge of maintaining servers up-to-date when everything fails. Aware that within a development team there are “invisible men” for the rest of the team, we decided to reserve one of the Glider Awards for Negonation employees in order to compensate them if this were necessary. Interestingly enough, it was not necessary to resort to that option since the collaborators themselves recognized the work of our sysadmin: José Gordo. I am proud to say that it is a pleasure to work with the best sysadmin that I have ever known. I could use all this post to talk about his tasks: server contracts, DNS administration, SSL certificates, software installation, backups, capistrano deployment scripts, security updates, and monitoring of the development and production environments, all of which he does skillfully. But if I had to highlight a single piece of work it would be the fine-tuning of the production server. We had decided to hire a dedicated server with a pre-installed CentOS and we decided to migrate it to the Ubuntu Server. Since we did not have physical access to the server, an operator was needed to intervene. The cost was prohibitive and it did not ensure the desired results, so we decided to transplant the operating system. Basically, José did an open-heart transformation of CentOS into a Ubuntu Server and added RAID support, taking advantage of the server’s two discs. To appreciate the complicated operation, you should take into account the fact that the network environment has to be operational throughout the process: a single fault and we would not be able to enter the machine. Instead of simply crossing his fingers, he installed a replica of the environment of a virtual machine in a computer to which he had physical access and repeated the operation several times until making sure that the technique worked. Finally, the same procedure was made in the production environment in a completely satisfactory way. [...] [...] There’s a cliché which says that only bad systems administrators are known while good ones are invisible for the rest of the team. No-one remembers sysadmins when everything is running smoothly, the only thing you’re concerned with is the person in charge of maintaining servers up-to-date when everything fails. Aware that within a development team there are “invisible men” for the rest of the team, we decided to reserve one of the Glider Awards for Negonation employees in order to compensate them if this were necessary. Interestingly enough, it was not necessary to resort to that option since the collaborators themselves recognized the work of our sysadmin: José Gordo. I am proud to say that it is a pleasure to work with the best sysadmin that I have ever known. I could use all this post to talk about his tasks: server contracts, DNS administration, SSL certificates, software installation, backups, capistrano deployment scripts, security updates, and monitoring of the development and production environments, all of which he does skillfully. But if I had to highlight a single piece of work it would be the fine-tuning of the production server. We had decided to hire a dedicated server with a pre-installed CentOS and we decided to migrate it to the Ubuntu Server. Since we did not have physical access to the server, an operator was needed to intervene. The cost was prohibitive and it did not ensure the desired results, so we decided to transplant the operating system. Basically, José did an open-heart transformation of CentOS into a Ubuntu Server and added RAID support, taking advantage of the server’s two discs. To appreciate the complicated operation, you should take into account the fact that the network environment has to be operational throughout the process: a single fault and we would not be able to enter the machine. Instead of simply crossing his fingers, he installed a replica of the environment of a virtual machine in a computer to which he had physical access and repeated the operation several times until making sure that the technique worked. Finally, the same procedure was made in the production environment in a completely satisfactory way. [...]

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