Month: January 2012

  • AWS Adds Object Expiration to S3!

    This is great news! One of the headaches of managing any file/object store is pruning old data, although that is something we’ve all dealt with for years with standard filesystems and storage devices, this makes working in the cloud easier. It’s applied by policy to a bucket (without versioning enabled). Check it out in the […]

  • Enabling the binary log on a MySQL Replication Master

    A common task when working with MySQL is to enable binary logging which will allow you to add read only slaves (often a good idea even if you aren’t adding the replication slaves now). According to the official MySQL documentation, there are only 3 steps required to enable binary logging: assign a unique server-id to […]