Jetbrains has recently added support for using Azure as cloud build agents. It supports start and stopping existing virtual machine instances or start and stopping new virtual machine instances created from an image. Unfortunately the plugin currently doesn’t support creating new virtual machine instances within a specific virtual network (vnet) which can complicate setups where you want to keep …
If you use Azure to host your Linux VMs (I prefer Azure extra-small instances over EC2 tiny instances because they allow you to put swap on ephemeral storage) you may notice that you only have 541MB of free memory rather than the 768MB promised by Microsoft. This is because the Linux crash kernel …
With the unfortunate demise of Bloom.fm, a product I designed and developed as CTO for 2.5 years at a company I co-founded 5.5 years ago; I think it’s a good time to write a series on my learnings, decisions and experiences. My development team (minus visual designers) varied from 6-13 developers over the years. With this size team we wrote a music …
The instructions provided here for installing Postgres on CentOS via yum don’t work for Postgres 9.x (Postgres 9.3 being the latest) if you’re stuck running CentOS 6.4 or lower. CentOS 6.4 and lower do not ship with OpenSSL 1.0.1 which is required by Postgres 9.x — they ship with OpenSSL …