Using Flume with Hive and Lzo (Part 1)

With one of my projects at Lijit I got the pleasure of learning and getting to contribute back to the Flume Project. If your not familiar with Flume its basically a distributed, reliable, and highly available service for efficiently collecting, … Continue reading →

PySQLPool moving to GitHub

So as many followers of PySQLPool may know I’ve already moved PySQLPool over to Github in terms of Source Control. I will also be working on migrating blueprints and issue tracking away from Launchpad sometime in the future. This all … Continue reading →

SSH Autocomplete

So many of a time you see an article about ssh autocomplete that reads your known_hosts file. Well that great and all but what about just reading your ssh config file for all your pre-configured hosts. Continue reading →

PySQLPool Upcoming Release 0.3.6

For all of you who use PySQLPool or are thinking about using PySQLPool in the future. You will be happy to know in the coming weeks a new release will be on its way. Now this release doesn’t so much … Continue reading →

First Impressions of a New Mac User

Well as many of you may know I made a recent Mac purchase. So far it has been a pretty decent machine. However there is a few things that I have come across that I wish Apple would fix and/or … Continue reading →