About Me
26 year old software developer located in Dublin, Ireland.
I work for EngineYard on Orchestra, the PHP Platform as a Service.
Email: ross.duggan@acm.org
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I run wthax.org and co-founded Ireland's first anime convention, EirtaKon.-
Recent Posts
- Reading list for scaling Solr
- I’m joining EngineYard to work on Orchestra
- Bots are crawling new domain registrations and namesquatting Twitter handles
- “Levelling the playing field” in education
- Munin plugins for Solr
- Google Plus
- Getting Windows 7 onto a USB stick using Ubuntu
- Searching Boards.ie – Solr, EC2, SQS, SNS, Node.js
- EC2: Create AMI from a running instance
- Gender breakdown for software development in Ireland
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Categories
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Munin plugins for Solr
I’ve been mucking around with Python recently and have written a couple of simple Munin plugins for Boards.ie’s Solr cluster (in the hope of helping to track down some annoying performance bugs).
If you’re not familiar with Munin, it’s a bit like Nagios, (and if you haven’t heard of Nagios, it’s a network monitoring tool). Munin is particularly nifty because it’s easily extensible in pretty much any language that takes your fancy; Perl seems to be the favorite, but Python is also used.
You can check out the plugins on Distilled’s Github account (parent company of Adverts.ie, Boards.ie, Daft.ie and TheJournal.ie).
There’s a bunch more there that Conor McDermottroe has written for MySQL, Snort, IMPI and FreeBSD too which you might also be interested in!