My wife asked me today if I could give a colleague some advice for how to backup a bunch of Macs. I’ll share my advice for you here. Over the past two decades I’ve used so many different backup systems and software and hardware combinations, I can’t even count them all. So this begs the [...]

I have been writing a 10-part series on the Rackspace Cloud Blog. I’ll be keeping a running list of the posts here as they are published. Rule 1 – Cache is Your Friend Rule 2 – Don’t write to the database in real time Rule 3 – Use a “Stateless” design whenever possible Rule 4 [...]

If you want to know what memcached is all about, check out my recent post about memcached on The Rackspace Cloud Blog. In order to use memcached in the cloud, you may need to run it on a public network. This introduces a rash of security concerns. Originally memcached was only intended for use on [...]