Brainspl.at: Introducing Vertebra

"Introducing Vertebra" by Mark

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:15:54 +0000

Axiomatic advantages over Condor? Condor with DAGman?

"Introducing Vertebra" by gilad

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:33:20 +0000

further details? 4-6 weeks is an eternity to wait ;)

"Introducing Vertebra" by Gavin

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:00:22 +0000

Ezra, at first I was curious when you started your talk by saying you weren't sticking to the original topic. You definitely delivered something just as interesting, if not more so. I've been thinking about how we manage the small set of servers in our "cluster" (nowhere near the # of servers you are managing) Vertebra seems to offer many options for building a new generation of tools.

"Introducing Vertebra" by Rick

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:15:00 +0000

Ezra, Cool stuff. This reminds me a lot of freebase (the guts of freeride) that Rich Kilmer & friends were doing; plus erlang, plus pointed at more servers. Rick

"Introducing Vertebra" by Hunter

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:17:59 +0000

That is flipping sweet! I'm impressed.

"Introducing Vertebra" by Nima Negahban

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:42:43 +0000

Why not build a terracotta style network heap with all that messaging capability and VM management?

"Introducing Vertebra" by marze

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:08:13 +0000

Really smart the way you try to use XMPP, and in fact makes a lot of sense to me right now, SSH just doesn't feel fully right to monitor process. It looks like magic, sitting there chatting with your servers. Very cool! These are the kind of things that I love from the ruby/rails community! Congrats!

"Introducing Vertebra" by Ezra

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:56:52 +0000

Just to answer the question about Vertebra being open source or not. Yes vertebra will be open source, the ruby framework, the protocols and security stuff will all be open source. We may go with a commercial license on the workflow engine as that is a large piece of engineering but we have not decided yet. We want to get this out there and see what people do with it as I think there are limitless possibilities here. But we need to lock down the protocol and document everything and we are still experimenting with different parts of the system. I'd hope to have something to release in 4-6 weeks.

"Introducing Vertebra" by Michael

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:26:54 +0000

Below the flash embed above there is a PDF download which still works.

"Introducing Vertebra" by robert

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 08:43:22 +0000

it will be open sourced?

"Introducing Vertebra" by Ilya Grigorik

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:25:32 +0000

That looks awesome, can't believe I missed the presentation. Now waiting for more details, of course! ;)

"Introducing Vertebra" by Dave

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:51:35 +0000

Slides work fine for me...Awesome work, Ezra. Can't wait to see more.

"Introducing Vertebra" by Jeremy Pinnix

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:49:31 +0000

Looks like he has moved it here: http://www.slideshare.net/ezmobius/vertebra

"Introducing Vertebra" by Chris

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:10:46 +0000

I see the same thing. The slides have either been removed or made private by their owner. Bummer.

"Introducing Vertebra" by Samo

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:09:35 +0000

@bryanl: Uh, what do you mean? The slides are still there. And it looks like a really cool thing that should make the lives easier a lot.

"Introducing Vertebra" by Samo

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:03:32 +0000

I will there about Vertebra what? ;o)

"Introducing Vertebra" by bryanl

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:08:35 +0000

I'm sad :( The slides are already gone.

"Introducing Vertebra" by Damian

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:25:02 +0000

Ezra, I have problems clicking on `Read more…` link for your posts in my RSS reader. The URLs are something like `urn:uuid:5db0f1d7-64f4-4e4b-b917-115416bf9672` which they probably shouldn't be.

"Introducing Vertebra" by taerb

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:08:15 +0000

I think I can almost understand what you are talking about. In the end, it really comes down to web app push. I have played a bit with Juggernaut, http://juggernaut.rubyforge.org/ Any suggestions on some reading to help a recent college grad catch up with basics of what you talked about? Looks like I have something to play with in grad school ! $) PS "should i use merb or rails? yes!" ~ classic

"Introducing Vertebra" by Eric Davis

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:05:11 +0000

I didn't catch your talk, but Vertebra looks interesting. It's great that VMs solved the problem of not enough physical server space but now we have the problem of managing all of them. Many of the solutions I looked at were all script based and were really painful to setup.

"Introducing Vertebra" by Justin

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:55:59 +0000

Very cool. There's always this gap between the development of new capabilities and the availability of tools and systems needed to actually make use of those capabilities. Nice to see that progress is being made there!

Introducing Vertebra

ezmobius — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 02:46:00 +0000

Here are the slides from my talk at RailsConf 2008. I’m too tired to write much more right this instant so I’ll let the slides talk. Rest assured you will here more about vertebra in the near future…

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Here is a PDF of the slides if you are having trouble with the flash slideshare version:

Vertebra.pdf