Posts made by gotwf

@pattonb Have you given any thought to bailing on Linux entirely? FreeBSD is pretty good and no danger of becoming proprietary. I've used for decades. And the more and more Linux goes the wrong directions, the more and more I want to free myself of it entirely. Almost there.

@JaredBusch So... now that you've had this up and running for a while, care to report on how that is going? Inquiring minds are curious. Particularly w.r.t. resource utilization comparison, performance differences, etc. comparatively. I think you were on Mongo previously, correct? Cuz I am right there with you on the license bullshit. All it takes is one bump in the road, merger, and wham, history repeats and next major version changes license again - only this time to something closed. Have no interest in betting on community to fork and continue. Need a safer bet. It would appear that percona may have already done so w/their percona mongodb offering but I wonder if that would continue as a full fork if/when upstream became closed source.

TIA-- o/

P.S.; While the ability to "pivot" from e.g. alert to metrics to log seamlessly from w/in a single UI is indeed attractive, the time series data model of the PLG stack (Prometheus Loki Grafana) does not lend itself well to "The Tail at Scale" problem.

https://www2.cs.duke.edu/courses/cps296.4/fall13/838-CloudPapers/dean_longtail.pdf

IOW; it is all a lot more complex than one may initially imagine... lol.

Balvenie has been mentioned up post. One of the first distilleries to do the double cask thang. Some dandy offerings. Indeed. Yet I prefer their 15yr. old single cask. Ya' know, the stuff the master pulls and sets aside prior to double caskin'.... Dandy elixir. Indeed. If you can find it.

Other Faves:

• Talisker: Robert Louis Stevenson's poison of preference.

• McCallan 12yr. Sherry Wood, Cask Strength. No longer exported to USA. But damn, I sure wish I'd not let my wife's neatness OCD polish off the last quarter bottle from my stash... ;(

• Glenmorangie 18yr. Old Deep citrus, orange notes from that d'oroloso finish. Recommended.

Well, alrighty then....

Moving forward... more modern times is "Elastic Stack", featuring "Beats" more prominently than the infamously pita Logstash. Also known as ELKB. Or at least to a feeble pivot effort by marketing.... Reality is more likely to be EFK, Elasticsearch, Fluendo, Kibana.

Time series data side: Prometheus and Loki seem very attractive combo, visualized via Grafana. Loki design document (draft) here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11tjK_lvp1-SVsFZjgOTr1vV3-q6vBAsZYIQ5ZeYBkyM/view#heading=h.xmomb5buwgxj

I am curious as to the thoughts of the greater mind hive?

Elastic Stack: Beats may be a modular blast but you still need Logstash for any "manipulations". Be that as it may, you still end up with full text searchable logs. JVM and fiends (typo not intended but apropos?) are going to chew up as much RAM as you can throw at it. CPU cycles as well. So, big enterprise and big hardware kind of deal. Elastic Ph.D. requisite.

Loki: Give up log content for a meta data approach. Substantially less resource provisioning requirements. Hence more affordable/cost effective small to medium biz/enterprise side? High bar of entry learning curve wise since this is complex 'chit but still much lower bar than Elastic Stack. Keeping w/analogy, yer' maybe gonna' need a Bachelor's fer' this one.

Alrighty then... inquiring minds are curious about such things. Let 'er buck!

@MattSpeller said in Need a Good Bottle of Scotch:

@scottalanmiller said in Need a Good Bottle of Scotch:

Laphroaig makes you cry inside a bit.

Strange, it just makes my beard grow thicker

Laphroaig Quarter Cask, best bottle under $100

Schnay! I say, schnay! Laphroaig 10yr. Cask Strength, a.k.a. "Red Stripe".

Edit: Although the Quarter Cask is indeed dandy.

If you requested a cancellation from Dell, and have proof, you can file a dispute with your credit/debit card company. They'll make you jump thru various hoops and various delays while Dell is provided the opportunity to refute your dispute but in the end right usually wins. Provided you can back it up. So I hope you saved a copy of that cancellation request. Also any detailed specifics you can document about the multiple delays. Submit all that when you file your dispute. Oh, and don't let lamer operators on the other end dissuade you - they're just being lazy. Stay assertive. Not passive. Not aggressive. You know the drill.

@syko24 I stopped doing business w/Dell circa 2004/5. I spec'd out a box for a client and had the order held because the client wanted to pay direct rather than thru me. When they did, the sales rep tried up selling them on different hardware and RHEL (went so far as to tell them Debian was NOT Linux). Also went so far as to bad mouth me to the point client confronted me about it before pulling the trigger. Fortunately I had a pretty good relationship w/this client and I prevailed. Hate to have thought what might have ensued otherwise. Lots of big operators swear by them but, since you asked, there's my Dell horror story. New here w/zero rep but I'd keep the xByte.

Caveat emptor. Good luck.