shmoocon 2011 tickets on sale 11/16/2010 @ Noon EST

[supasixfo]

hopefully the server doesn't crash and die a horrible death....for the 3rd time...

As you can tell, we've thrown everything and the kitchen sink at the problem. Well, maybe not the kitchen sink, but at least 5 of the TF2 workstations. We have decided to implement the secret Shmoo High-availability Moose Cluster. It's a proper web cluster with a load balancer (HAProxy), a pile of web servers, a dedicated DB server, and an audit box. As you can see in the diagram below, if we need more capacity we'll just grow bigger antlers.

Seriously, we've been pouring hours a day in to this setup. We built the software knowing we may want to go with a load balanced architecture at some point. Based on last week's results, we realized we had to scale sooner rather than later.

We're still tuning and shaking out the bugs. As you can imagine there's a lot of changes when moving from a single host with all software running in one place to a distributed setup like we have in the Moose Cluster. We've made good progress, but we won't be ready this week.

That said, we do think we'll be ready on Tuesday. So we're scheduling the next attempt to sell tickets for noon EST (yes, EST now) on Tuesday, November 16th. So, get F5 ready. We should be ready for you.

http://www.shmoocon.org/news

[complacent]

secret moose cluster!

[drwrx]

Oooh, secret and High-availability!
And they said it couldn't be done.

[thermatico]

I'm ready to try again.

[complacent]

I'm ready to try again.

my money's on failboat, again.

(testing out some reverse shmoo psychology here)

[PGT]

should I attend? never been....don't know whether or not it would be a good use of my time

[Sabre]

Everyone can learn something from these conferences. There are talks about low level things all the way up to social engineering.

[PGT]

are you saying I'm low level???

[Sabre]

low level = ASM/shell code

10 minutes!

[supasixfo]

anyone have extra tickets ? i checked at 12:01pm and they were all sold out

[complacent]

anyone have extra tickets ? i checked at 12:01pm and they were all sold out

it sold out crazy fast! have to try dec 1.

[Sabre]

Got mine at 12:00.10 !

[Libra Monkee]

They LIED to me. Told me I had a registration number and everything. Then when I didn't get an email I felt dejected. Come to find out. [mocking voice]"Oh our system gave out registration numbers even after tickets were gone"[mocking voice]

[Sabre]

Tickets on sale in 30!

[Sabre]

7!

[complacent]

here's hoping the high-availability moose logging really worked as promised... waiting for my confirmation email.

[Mr Kleen]

Really missing you guys right now...

[Sabre]

Feeling is mutual my friend!

[complacent]

Feeling is mutual my friend!

dittos!