A good monitoring solution can make or break an entire service - a well implemented one will enable you to forecast and plan ahead, as well as, quickly spot and debug problems when they arise. However, anyone that has worked with a cluster of machines will know that this is also a non-trivial problem.

LessConf is tomorrow in Jacksonville, Florida. If you’re not going I’ll be sad that I won’t see you there. But not too sad with this line up of awesome speakers:

Looking for a Ruby/Rails job in Texas, California, Florida, Illinois, or Texas? We might have want you want in this post. This is perhaps the most diverse set of states featured in a Ruby Inside job post - usually it's just California and New York! It seems Ruby and Rails are now finding a full-time billing in a whole new set of companies.

I’m going to be finishing up my MBA in August, and then my family and I are moving to San Francisco, by way of Minnesota.

The Conductive Education Center of Orlando (CECO) opened its doors in 2001 with the support of local families who wanted a program that would challenge their children with motor disabilities to acquire new skills. CECO’s mission is to combine physical and social educational methods to meet the unique needs of children with motor and cognitive disabilities. They need our help.