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mutt: changing sender mail address on the fly
Had a need today to adjust the sender email address for a notification script. Since the script uses mutt to send the emails, that change was fairly straight-forward. Instead of modifying .muttrc, simply export the EMAIL environmental variable. (more…)
Filed under: cli-fu — Tags: email, mutt, tips — appgirl @ 7:19 amComments (1)
Power your webapp with Cloudera, Hadoop, Hive, Pig, and EC2
Ever wonder how http://www.trendingtopics.org/ collects & process the visitor information from wikipedia? This Cloudera Post walks you through the steps of how to leverage various cloud tools to power a process-intensive web application. (more…)
Filed under: web X.0 — appgirl @ 8:53 pmComments (0)
State of the Cloud: Use of Infrastructure-As-A-Service
InfiBase researched top 500,000 websites (based on Quantcast metrics) and their usage of cloud services. While EC2 showed a 9% growth from July to August, less than 1% of all the sites use cloud for infrastructure services. (more…)
Filed under: web X.0 — Tags: architecture, cloud, clustering, infrastructure — appgirl @ 8:54 pmComments (0)