Bees with machines guns is a fabric script to aggressively load-test sites. It provides methods to spin up an army of EC2 instances (the bees), assault a target server with a configurable amount of traffic, and then spin those instances back down.

Been waiting for a real review of the OCZ Vertex for some time now, looks like this is it.

Cutting to the chase, here’s the secret: One custom view per table cell, and do your own drawing. Sounds simple? That’s because it is. It’s actually simpler than dealing with a ton of subviews of labels and images, and it’s about a bzillion times faster (according to my informal tests).

executing "CREATE TABLE innodb_lock_monitor (a INT) ENGINE=INNODB" tells "SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS" to give you detailed information about locks

an easy way to get rails talking to memcached