And with about 30 minutes of downtime I've now got 2x the ram #devops

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running alter tables in production is terrifying #mysql ... just converted from MyISAM to InnoDB and added a bunch of #indexes

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#django 1.6 upgrade was a breeze. Just a single deprecation warning. #win ... took the opportunity to refactor some old code too :)

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so my resume link was broken for six months #fail stupid missing line in #nginx conf ... not enough exploratory testing during the refactor. What good is #staging for anyway?!

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Actors are overrated. So far, we've preferred to use future literals and ExecutorServices instead #scala #box #metadata

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Finally added an upstart script for my gollum wiki #linux #ops One less thing to worry about when dealing with a reboot or upgrade

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Only minor drama when upgrading hyperbola to 12.04 LTS ... #mysql failed to cleanly upgrade to 5.5 and I forgot the correct URL for my staging environment #linux #fail

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