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shmoocon 2011 tickets on sale 11/16/2010 @ Noon EST
Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 1:58 pm
by 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
Re: shmoocon 2011 tickets on sale 11/16/2010 @ Noon EST
Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 3:06 pm
by complacent
secret moose cluster!
Re: shmoocon 2011 tickets on sale 11/16/2010 @ Noon EST
Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 3:21 pm
by drwrx
Oooh, secret and High-availability!
And they said it couldn't be done.
Re: shmoocon 2011 tickets on sale 11/16/2010 @ Noon EST
Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 10:13 pm
by thermatico
I'm ready to try again.
Re: shmoocon 2011 tickets on sale 11/16/2010 @ Noon EST
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2010 12:15 am
by complacent
thermatico wrote:I'm ready to try again.
my money's on failboat, again.
(testing out some reverse shmoo psychology here)
Re: shmoocon 2011 tickets on sale 11/16/2010 @ Noon EST
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2010 8:45 am
by PGT
should I attend? never been....don't know whether or not it would be a good use of my time
Re: shmoocon 2011 tickets on sale 11/16/2010 @ Noon EST
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2010 9:30 am
by Sabre
Everyone can learn something from these conferences. There are talks about low level things all the way up to social engineering.
Re: shmoocon 2011 tickets on sale 11/16/2010 @ Noon EST
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2010 11:20 am
by PGT
are you saying I'm low level???
Re: shmoocon 2011 tickets on sale 11/16/2010 @ Noon EST
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2010 11:50 am
by Sabre
low level = ASM/shell code
10 minutes!
Re: shmoocon 2011 tickets on sale 11/16/2010 @ Noon EST
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2010 12:24 pm
by supasixfo
anyone have extra tickets
? i checked at 12:01pm and they were all sold out
Re: shmoocon 2011 tickets on sale 11/16/2010 @ Noon EST
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2010 1:54 pm
by complacent
supasixfo wrote: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.
Re: shmoocon 2011 tickets on sale 11/16/2010 @ Noon EST
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2010 2:01 pm
by Sabre
Got mine at 12:00.10 !
Re: shmoocon 2011 tickets on sale 11/16/2010 @ Noon EST
Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 12:19 pm
by 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]
Re: shmoocon 2011 tickets on sale 11/16/2010 @ Noon EST
Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 11:31 am
by Sabre
Tickets on sale in 30!
Re: shmoocon 2011 tickets on sale 11/16/2010 @ Noon EST
Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 11:55 am
by Sabre
7!
Re: shmoocon 2011 tickets on sale 11/16/2010 @ Noon EST
Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 12:47 pm
by complacent
here's hoping the high-availability moose logging really worked as promised... waiting for my confirmation email.
Re: shmoocon 2011 tickets on sale 11/16/2010 @ Noon EST
Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 4:03 pm
by Mr Kleen
Really missing you guys right now...
Re: shmoocon 2011 tickets on sale 11/16/2010 @ Noon EST
Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 5:07 pm
by Sabre
Feeling is mutual my friend!
Re: shmoocon 2011 tickets on sale 11/16/2010 @ Noon EST
Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2011 2:26 pm
by complacent
Sabre wrote:Feeling is mutual my friend!
dittos!