Category Archives: Geeky Musings

A thought bubble about service-level agreements.

Posted on July 8, 2009 by Jacques Chester

It is very common in IT to see “Service Level Agreements” specifying a certain amount of uptime. This is usually considered in “nines”: when someone talks about five nines, they’re referring to 99.999% uptime.
Very few services actually attain it, or even come close. All it takes is one bad day and the “downtime budget” for [...] Continue reading →

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And now for something completely geeky

Posted on June 25, 2009 by Jacques Chester

Now that my exams are over, I’ve gotten back to working towards launching my little startup. During the second half of my semester I couldn’t find time or energy for it, but I did occasionally give it some thinking time, some of which has borne fruit.
Beware, Troppo readers; here be nerds.

My technical architecture has a [...] Continue reading →

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On a risk I had not considered

Posted on April 5, 2009 by Jacques Chester

As most of you know by now, I’ve been slowly working in my spare time on a dot-com project. I haven’t knuckled down to do a proper risk analysis yet — let’s face it, coding is much more fun — but I’ve certainly kicked various scenarios around in my head while working on it.

So, for [...] Continue reading →

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