John Albietz inthecloud247

My thoughts on MessagePack

Hi. My name is Sadayuki "Sada" Furuhashi. I am the author of the MessagePack serialization format as well as its implementation in C/C++/Ruby.

Recently, MessagePack made it to the front page of Hacker News with this blog entry by Olaf, the creator of the Facebook game ZeroPilot. In the comment thread, there were several criticisms for the blog post as well as MessagePack itself, and I thought this was a good opportunity for me to address the questions and share my thoughts.

My high-level response to the comments

To the best of my understanding, roughly speaking, the criticisms fell into the following two categories.

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Creating a dynamic site-to-site VPN with OpenSwan on Ubuntu 10.04 on EC2

Wes Winham [email protected]

There are many tutorials floating around the web that almost get you a dynamic VPN in EC2. The goal of this tutorial is to be a one-stop-shop for this specific setup.

Make it real

Ideas are cheap. Make a prototype, sketch a CLI session, draw a wireframe. Discussions around concrete examples, not handy-waving abstractions. Don't say you did something, provide a URL that proves it.

Ship it

Nothing is real until it's being used by a real user. This doesn't mean you make a prototype in the morning and blog about it in the evening. It means you find one person you believe your product will help and try to get them to use it.

	# Example config to run single processes in docker, managed by
	# supervisord.
	#
	# This probably isn't the "right" way to do it, I haven't
	# found a better solution online though. Keep in mind, supervisor
	# wants non-daemonized processes, which is why we run them with the
	# -i flag. If you are running something like mysqld, be sure to use
	# the pidproxy application as described here:
	# http://supervisord.org/subprocess.html?highlight=pidproxy#pidproxy-program
	#

	#!/usr/bin/env python
	"""
	Recipe for creating and updating security groups programmatically.


	"""

	import collections

	import boto

	# salt-minion.conf
	description "salt-minion upstart daemon"
	author "Jeff Bauer <[email protected]>"

	# copy this file to /etc/init

	start on (net-device-up and local-filesystems)
	stop on shutdown

	expect fork

	from fabric.api import *
	from fabric.operations import local,put
	import subprocess
	import os

	@task
	def deploy_small_ec2_instance():
	local('/usr/bin/ec2-run-instances ami-6dacf728 --instance-type m1.small --region us-west-1 --key ${EC2_KEYPAIR} --user-data-file user-data.sh --group ${SGROUP}')

	@task

	# salt-minion.conf
	description "salt-minion upstart daemon"
	author "Jeff Bauer <[email protected]>"

	# copy this file to /etc/init

	start on (net-device-up and local-filesystems)
	stop on shutdown

	expect fork

	salt-minion:
	pkg:
	- installed
	service:
	- running
	- require:
	- pkg: salt-minion
	- watch:
	- file: /etc/salt/minion.d/grains.conf