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Category Archives: HubSpot
Graphing Jenkins Statistics
Like many people, we use Jenkins at work as our continuous integration server and we require that all changes that are committed go through being built in CI before they can get deployed. Yesterday, someone asked if we could add … Continue reading
Monitoring Driven DevOps
Wrote up a nice post that maps pretty well to the Ignite talk I gave at Velocity about using using monitoring to help drive your infrastructure development. Go check it out over on the HubSpot dev blog
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Velocity 2011
I spent last week out in California for the O’Reilly Velocity Conference. It was in Santa Clara, which I hadn’t been to and frankly, I would be perfectly happy to not return. Parts of California are nice, Santa Clara is … Continue reading
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My new role
I’m still at HubSpot but my role within the company has changed a bit over the past few months. Related to the article that Yoav wrote which was posted on onStartups today about how we’re trying to better empower our engineers … Continue reading
Announcing ami-creator
I’ve been having to build some new CentOS images to be used with EC2 for work recently. I went into it thinking that it shouldn’t be too big of a deal. I know that some work had been going on in this … Continue reading
EC2 and Fedora: Still stuck at Fedora 8
Amazon’s EC2 service is great for being able to roll out new servers quickly and easily. It’s also really nice because we don’t ever have to worry about physical hardware and can just spin up more instances as we need … Continue reading
Why do all deployment systems suck?
At HubSpot, we have a pretty wide array of different things being used for the webapps running behind the scenes. This isn’t surprising. There’a also some home-grown scripts (in python, as that’s the scripting language of choice… something I’m not … Continue reading
Commuting Pedal Failures
One thing that’s quite nice about the new gig is that the office is in Kendall Square. Much, much, much better location-wise than Westford. It means that my commute is just about seven miles which is quite nice to do … Continue reading
First Week at HubSpot
As I wrap up my first week at HubSpot, I have a few observations that are at least sort of interesting. Real hardware. I’m pretty happy with my current laptop so I just got a desktop machine to use at … Continue reading
The New Chapter Begins
The new chapter begins… today was my first day working for HubSpot. It’s a big change for me as I’ve been doing pretty much purely (fairly) low-level operating system work for a decade now. Going to a company that’s doing … Continue reading