Linux - curl example

Recently was asked to try a curl by a team mate. 
Turns out it was kinda ugly and I had to use:

• cookies
• body
• header
• redirect

 This is what it ended up looking like:

curl -b cookies.txt -c cookies.txt -L -v -H "Content-Type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded" --data 'login_fail_url=http://junksample.com/damnitall&login_success_url=http://junksample..com/woopeedoo' 'http://junksample.com/v1/login'

the "-L" portion told curl to follow the 302 redirect that comes back
the "-b cookies.txt -c cookies.txt" portion stored a cookie that came back and then used the cookie when it followed the redirect
the "-H ...." portion was for adding a header
the "--data ...." portion was for specifying the POST body

MongoDB - MMS and alerting

Seems to be a relatively new feature, but we now have Alerting from MMS:

Metrics - Statsd to CYA

So we have a dependency on a 3rd party service.
We publish events to this message bus.
We ran performance tests in our PQA environment one day and we very disappointed with the results: some 1.5 second response times. 
So we came up with the idea of NOT publishing events.
Response times dropped to 0.1 seconds.

Now we should wrap the call with a Statsd timer so we can let the other service folks know they need to improve performance.


"You should have published your events asynchronously"
I know.  shut up... :)

The Big Time

Wow, I actually had a few page views from France and one from Germany.
Kinds cool.. first time I've noticed any hits that are obviously not me.

Fabric - Fab Squared

So we have some vCloud boxes that I setup a week back.  (See lame picture below)
My local VM would blow up when I tried to run too many Fab tasks in parallel.
So I decided to farm out the fab tasks to some dedicated VMs.
What better tool to run Fab on remote boxes than Fab itself?   :)

fab -H 10.10.10.10 -- 'cd /home/urmom/fabstuffs; fab svcs.provision:prd,standby,use1b,piapi-affiliation,1.0.8,count=2' </dev/null > b_affiliation.out 2>&1 &

Yes, that hideous command above is redirecting StdOut, StdErr and StdIn.

AWS - Evaluating instance types & quantities to meet RAM and Disk Capacity requirements

A screenshot of a spreadsheet I made: