Incoming…

I am currently working on a new architecture for my server based on OpenVZ. After all, I need a reason for my new piece of hardware which features 24GB of RAM and a few terabytes of storage…

It will rely on LDAP and NFS for pretty much everything.

I've also been playing with redis a lot lately. I absolutely love it.

I want most service, PHP or Ruby app to have its own container (most of them based on Arch Linux, with nice hacks I might document later). The base container is currently 120MB.

For all those reasons and because life can be fun, I am writing my own mail sending & receiving, Twitter posting, logging and IRC communication framework. The concept is to expose a clean API through redis and implement the corresponding "gateways" in their own virtual machines. I also intend to provide alternatives to standard tools; for example, I wrote a sendmail-compliant client. All this code will be open-sourced soon. I'll keep you updated!

On an unrelated note, I am currently following the RH300 "RHCE Rapid Track Course" and might be a Red Hat Certified Technician and Red Hat Certified Engineer by the end of the week… I will also be in Munich from Sunday to Tuesday. If a friendly face wants to see me there, here's my E-mail!