Writings on various topics (mostly technical) from Oliver Hookins and Angela Collins. We currently reside in Sydney after almost a decade in Berlin, have three kids, and have far too little time to really justify having a blog.
Warning: this is a bit of a rant. Today my team had to migrate our ElasticSearch cluster from one set of instances in our EC2 VPC, to a smaller set of physical machines in our regular datacenter (yes, it's actually cheaper). Both sets of machines/instances are Chef-controlled, which generally I don't have to worry about, but in this case it was important due to the ordering of steps in the…