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Re: Why We Switched From Stripe To Balanced (and almost chose BancBox)

berkay — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 17:44:13 -0000

nope! point taken.

Re: Why We Switched From Stripe To Balanced (and almost chose BancBox)

berkay — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:44:11 -0000

I'll take your word for it. I actually did comply with that request, but they didn't stop with the license. I eventually decided they were not worth the trouble when they demanded explanation for why I lived in a different state than where company was located. No idea what that was about.

They should at least indicate all requirements upfront. I wonder what percent of applicants get approved "instantly".

Re: Why We Switched From Stripe To Balanced (and almost chose BancBox)

berkay — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 14:35:55 -0000

Well unfortunately, not exactly. I was asked to send copy of my license, proof of my address, then asked to modify the website to state that we don't require credit cards for trials (we didn't) and then asked why I was living in a state other than where my company was incorporated, etc. etc. Annoying to say the least. In short, not exactly "instant"

Re: Impact of Infrastructure Automation Tools on Monitoring

berkay — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:56:41 -0000

Hi Matt,
The demo you had sounds very good. As you've also mentioned there are number of potential integration points between monitoring and infrastructure automation tools that would significantly increase the value of both sets of tools. I'm just beginning to explore them, and possibilities are indeed exciting.

Looking forward to learn more about your Chef integration when it becomes available!

Berkay

Re: Vmware Springsource and Hyperic: Brave new world and a lot of questions

berkay — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:25:38 -0000

Agreed.
VMWare may be able to do more than bare metal jvm OS with Springsource, They can go further app the stack and create something like Google App Engine for the enterprise, without the limitations of GAE.

Re: Vmware Springsource and Hyperic: Brave new world and a lot of questions

berkay — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:04:25 -0000

William,

Thanks for the comment.Hyperic is typically compared to more generic monitoring tools like the ones I've mentioned above which typically don't have an agent on the box and rely on SNMP or WMI. SIGAR alone is a differentiator for Hyperic.

I understand your argument that deeper and more efficient insight into applications is needed to resolve scalability and performance problems (like provided by Jinspire)

By assigning CPU and memory, I was referring to elasticity rather than scalability/performance problem originating from the application. In a VMWare box with 32 CPUs and 128GB memory hosting multiple JVMs, VMWare can potentially change allocation of CPUs and memory to applications based on the load for each app, making better use of the available resources.

Re: Getting Groovy Processing XML, sending SNMP traps and RapidInsight

berkay — Tue, 05 May 2009 09:54:58 -0000

I fully agree that presentation layer is critical.

It sounds like you're looking for new UI components/paradigms. I think you're better of looking at a live system rather than screenshots. You can use the live demo on our website.
http://www.ifountain.com/ra...

In RI, we mostly use typical components, grids, maps, pie charts, etc. key being presentation layer showing all the relevant information from disparate systems seamlessly. Another key point is the interaction between the components in a view. Components are dynamic, interaction in one component reflects on others,etc.

We found these are key enabler techniques to make presentation layer effective.

There are also some examples of different UI components. you can try
- service view tab, click on a menu in service view and select Get Event History (uses timeline to show events)
- select get Device locations to see google maps type integration.
- data is brought from the server as user moves around in the list views (live grid concept) which is key for the UI to scale to large systems.
- in search tabs, refinement of the search query as the user click on the results

Re: Let The Students Teach

berkay — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:04:36 -0000

Hi Fred,

Indeed a great post by Dave, will dig in to learn more about unschooling as well.

Just as a side note, I'm guessing that phonydiploma.com "Fool anyone!" ad that is part of the RSS feed is not part of hacking education :) Google AD FAIL!

Re: Getting Groovy Processing XML, sending SNMP traps and RapidInsight

berkay — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:36:37 -0000

Hi Jeff, thanks for the comment, glad to hear you've found it useful.

It makes a lot of sense, events and performance are intertwined, and ops need to be able to correlate them at least visually hence the need to align the events and performance data as you've described.

In monitoring systems, performance exceptions are typically sent as events via snmp traps etc to the event management systems, bringing events from any source into the mgmt systems is essential but not always sufficient.
In addition to the consolidation of events, in RapidInsight, we've taken an approach that we describe as "integration in the presentation layer" http://www.ifountain.com/bl...
where we combine all types of information (events, graphs, etc.) from multiple systems using a common model and user interface. This allows users to access performance reports/graphs in context of the events and vice versa.

Re: Getting Groovy Processing XML, sending SNMP traps and RapidInsight

berkay — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:31:30 -0000

Hi Doug :)

What did you end up doing about this anyway?

Just to be sure, in the approach above, the only prerequisite that needs to be installed on the server is Java VM. The rest are just jar files (for groovy and snmp) and scripts that can be unzipped to any directory and executed. I understand that RapidInsight would be an overkill just for something like this, but even RI is works by simply unzipping it to a directory.
XMLSlurper is part of groovy so it's already there, SNMP part above uses some utility classes in RI so they would need to be extracted from there to be used standalone but it's doable.

Re: The Most Free(tm) Way to Make Money from Open Source

berkay — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 01:20:23 -0000

Luke,
In the open source area innovation is as much about the business model as about the products. IMHO, purist approach is simplistic since it rejects experimentation. I think companies need to consider all options, as you're doing.
On the contributor agreements, having a core and plugins type architecture seems to ease the conflicts with contributor agreements. In this structure, contributors are only required to sign an agreement if they want to plugin to be distributed with the core product. Contributor can choose not to sign the agreement and users can download the plugins as an add-on. This can create a rich ecosystem around the product that is beneficial for all.

Good luck with it all.

Re: Bookmarks for February 18th through February 22nd

berkay — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:59:26 -0000

Hi Bryan,

I see what you mean. Though I had not thought the emphasize was on "all" anyway. "Five most common evolution paths" is more accurate as you state.
Personally, I mostly work on #2, see #1 and hear about #3 :)

Re: Service Management BSM and APIs

berkay — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 10:56:48 -0000

@Robin,

Thanks for the comment! Looking forward to read more about your thoughts as well. Last discussion in Doug's blog has really helped clearing my thoughts.

Re: Taking It To The Hood

berkay — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 13:50:55 -0000

That's the plan/hope.

No one wants to buy a house when wide spread expectation is that prices will continue to drop. I would not want to buy a house with all my savings and watch it disappear in couple of years.

This is why I don't want more houses to foreclose so that I can buy a house cheaper. The sooner the market stabilizes the better. For everyone.

Re: Taking It To The Hood

berkay — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 10:35:51 -0000

I can offer a perspective of someone who has not participated/benefited from the housing boom. As a "responsible" person, I did not buy a house and save money instead. In the mean time, the prices that already looked very high historically have double in the area (Washington,DC) in the last decade, overshooting any savings I managed to accumulate.
So it may be right to say that HASP is not fair to me. Folks who have spent more than they can afford are rewarded by it, and prices are not coming down, preventing me from buying a house.

But I'm not sure that's entirely true that I or rather we all have not benefited from the housing boom. We've all made money in the economy fueled by this housing boom haven't we? Yes we may now be paying for the mistakes of others but we also must acknowledge that we have reamed the benefits of a booming economy. Would you have made as much money from your investments if there wasn't such a boom? My income have almost tripled in the last 15 years. Can I claim all the credit to myself? Don't think so. Similarly, we will all now suffer from the bust. HASP is an attempt ease that suffering. Sure it'll help more to tthe homeowners who have taken more risk that they should have than it will help me, but if dampens the contraction, it will help us all.

I love Michael Rattner's dynamic systems explanation to government's role as the dampener of the markets. The government is now trying to dampen the crash. The problem is we were explicitly not willing to dampen the boom. As I understand it, Greenspan and the gang thought it would be better/easier to deal with the problem of the bust then dampen the boom, hence they did not intervene with markets. I think it is safe to say most of us agreed with that sentiment and any attempt to dampen the growth would not have been popular. It turns out, they were wrong and it's not so easy to deal with the bust, hence we're here trying to figure out what to do.

Re: Integrating IT management products, proprietary vs open source and APIs

berkay — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:33:45 -0000

Hi Jeff,

REST API sounds great! I remember reading about the plans in DevJam posts but didn't realize that there was already progress there. As I mentioned, we aimed to come up with the first version of the integration as a tool to investigate what can be done, what makes sense, what doesn't etc. and get some feedback. Once we learn more about what (and if) people want from an integration, it certainly makes sense to use the API instead as much as possible. Thanks!

Re: Default To Public

berkay — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:30:07 -0000

"This is knowledge we're talking about folks. And deleting knowledge is a bad idea, period." Absolutely agreed.
In Zuckerberg's art class example, the group has learned not because the end product has existed but because the group has created the site together themselves and learned during the process.
I'm guessing the intent of deleting the knowledge is to provide the same experience Zuckerberg's class had to all classes. There must be a better way to accomplish that then deleting what's been created, though it may not be obvious

Re: Open source business models and the allure of the open core

berkay — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:36:36 -0000

Tarus I think we're in agreement, so may be it is I who could not convey the thoughts. I used the term "communal cookout" to describe open source projects. communal potluck sounds better. I think this conveys the difference between open source and proprietary approaches. In proprietary (restaurant) approach, you go, sit, they serve you the food they prepared, your participation is limited to eating it. You are a consumer. In an open source project, you're (or can be) part of the cooking process.

I understand that you're trying to educate market (not sure it is possible, but hope so). I am just hypothesizing that open core companies offer the comfort of a known paradigm (restaurant) with some of the benefits -albeit not all - of the open source potluck paradigm, therefore gain traction in the market.

Re: America Needs A Turnaround Plan

berkay — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:29:49 -0000

So with this rational, we should reduce taxes, continue to borrow from totalitarian regimes and hope for the best? where is this that makes reducing taxes increase the revenue to make it an "established fact". We can at least say that that is a disputed fact?
The biggest value of Fred's posts is that they are pragmatic and NOT ideological. Given the mess that we're in, one would hope that people would think may be, just may be, these ideologies are spent and it's time to do some rethinking? Is this asking for too much?

Re: Fred Wilson Dot VC

berkay — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:12:02 -0000

I wish this was the browser split of the whole Internet. Our lives would have become much easier.

Re: living three waves at once: reaching from agricultural age to information age

berkay — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:31:12 -0000

Hi Tarus,
I've been following your down under adventure via the blog posts. Hope it's going well. We should find you a customer in Turkey so that you can visit here at some point :)

Re: Am I Bored With “Web 2.0”?

berkay — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:30:11 -0000

I think we need to bridge the web 2.0 community with the communities that work on these real problems and see whether/how we can enable them, and you may just be very well suited for this. I've tried to elaborate more at http://www.mberkay.com/2008...

Re: We're all ops people now

berkay — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:18:30 -0000

"System administrators are not only grumpy, they demand high wage" nice! how dare sys admins see themselves equal to developers! way to make friends :-)
Good, instructive post. If I understood it right, you see developers taking more of the deployment responsibility than before going forward. "Deployment" has always been where Development meets Operations. Traditionally neither developer nor ops people feel fully comfortable with deployment tasks. I have not seen commonly accepted, clear demarcation points for where responsibility of developers end and ops begin. Sounds like developers may get into the deployment more and more.

Re: Can Tasktop bring order to chaos?

berkay — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:25:18 -0000

Mik,

Thanks for the information, much appreciated! Firefox plans are music to my ears, looking forward to it.!

Curious: why do you keep your forums under lock and key? Wouldn't it be better if people can see (not post) what's going on without a user account, search traffic etc. seems odd.
waiting for my password reminder ..

Re: Can Tasktop bring order to chaos?

berkay — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:19:52 -0000

Hi Tim,
Definitely sounds interesting. I've added your feed. looking forward to it.