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Adam Israel

Adam Israel

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Software Engineer

Adam is a software engineer with more than twenty years experience building and breaking complex applications. Adam is also published author of Science Fiction and Fantasy short stories, and technical articles and reviews.

Adam Israel
24 November 2015

Diving into Juju

Cloud and server Article

In my last post, I introduced you to Juju and talked about how it could help you. Now I’d like to walk you through some real world examples of Juju in action. Workloads Bundles are used to represent workloads. Bundles can be simple, like the WordPress example in the previous post, or complex. OpenStack If ...

Adam Israel
22 October 2015

MySQL performance tuning between disk types

Cloud and server Article

Introduction We sat down with the intent to benchmark various flavors of MySQL (Oracle MySQL, MariaDB, and Percona) on Amazon EC2 in order to measure the difference between the three on identical hardware, backed by spinning rust and SSD storage. The wheels on that bus came off quickly, though, as we realized there was no ...

Adam Israel
25 June 2015

Announcing Benchmarking with Juju

Cloud and server Article

Benchmarking and performance are interesting problems, especially in today’s growing cloud-based microservice scene. It used to be a question of “how does this hardware compare to that hardware,” but as computing and service-oriented architectures grow the question has evolved. How does my cloud and application stack handle this? It’s no ...