local::lib: Better perl when you don’t have root.

Monday, October 19th, 2009

These days as we move increasingly to ‘the clouds’, it’s becoming common to get a server where you’ve got local root. However, those (from a provider and a user perspective) aren’t always the best way to go. Those are more expensive to provide (dedicated IP’s, more dedicated resources on the server) and thus more expensive [...]

Testing perl system interactions

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

A lot of the code I end up needing to work on makes calls to various executables to read and process system state. It might be DTrace, or one of the tools that comes with the Virtuozzo/OpenVZ management suite, or one of the HP hardware monitoring tools — they all want to be called from [...]