Mark Phillips | Product Marketing, Management and Strategy

Service discovery is one of those things that can be extremely handy to have, yet difficult to implement in a simple fashion.

The Unix philosophy.

In the summer of 2013 I worked on a project that introduced me to Ansible.

You know what, I am starting to despair of the IT industry, just a little bit.

As part of a log consolidation exercise I’d decided to try and put logwatch output into Splunk, to later produce some succinct analysis.

The greatest piece of engineering man has ever achieved is the humble bicycle.

This week I’d been fighting with a Chef install to do something relatively simple.

I’ve spent my entire IT career automating.

Here’s how to get Amazon S3 bucket logs into Splunk, and then pull out the useful fields.

Many articles have been written about this topic, yet none of them seem to fulfill the basic premise I wanted: get it working.

I’ve tended to use Perl::Critic for keeping my Perl in some semblence of a readable state for a while now.

I wrote a short while ago about using iPXE with a URL to help booting multiple versions of Linux.

Although kickstarting Linux is pretty simple, it can be frustrating if you’re trying to build different versions.

I had this error the other day: Perl LWP 'error:14094410:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:sslv3 alert handshake failure' Lots and lots of solutions for this one out there in Google land, but it turned out to be quite simple.

I’ve been using Mojolicious quite a bit this year, and I love it.

Whilst working with the VMware Perl SDK this morning I came across this error: Server version unavailable at '<a href="https://hostname/sdk/vimService.wsdl">https://hostname:443/sdk/vimService.wsdl</a>' at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/VMware/VICommon.pm line 545.

After a colleague showed me MySQL Workbench the other day I thought I’d install the packaged MySQL on my Macbook, to do a bit of Catalyst developing.

Sun have done some work in recent times with liveupgrade - the last time I looked at it, a few years back now, it was inadequate.

I recently edited a post on a Wordpress blog and discovered that trying to change the publish time (to bring an old post up to the top of the list) created a temporary world of pain.

This is one of the weirdest problems I’ve had for a while.