Netflix is known for its Simian Army, which it lets loose to test its service every once in a while. The cloud calls for strict availability and reliability, and the only way to ensure this is through stringent testing. Netflix has an amusing nomenclature for its testing strategy. It likes to group its cloud testing tools into a simian army.
This week in the open source cloud headlines, SUSE makes a splash with its pro-open blog post on Forbes and a shout-out from OStatic for its own cloud contribution. Rackspace and HP both debuted OpenStack-based clouds this week.
Netflix is open sourcing its libraries for connecting the numerous services it uses on Amazon Web Services to keep its business running. Dubbed Hystrix, the offering is just another example of how Netflix has become the model for how to deploy and maintain a cloud infrastructure.
The Hystrix library controls the interactions between the various distributed services that organizations may use when
Netflix is going to the movies with its Open Source Center on Github. In a clever play, Netflix has taken its well-known brand and placed it on GitHub to show each of its open source projects as its own movie, genre and characters.
Rolling over each movie poster thumbnail reveals a description of the open-source tool, the number of viewers, the number of forks, and the last update.
CloudStack has released its first new code since becoming an Apache incubator project in April, according to top open source cloud headlines this week.
‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even those in the lighthearted holiday fare you were planning to watch on Netflix, which has been down since 1pm PST for some customers.
Mama called the doctor and the doctor said….. Super Monkey Ball 2, Sakura Edition has made its way to the Android platform and man is it addicting! Sega is bringing the Gamecube classic to Android and you can now get Aiai, MeeMee, Baby and GonGon to roll through 126 boards in six different worlds. It’s on.
Netflix‘s lack of official support for Linux may not do much to help its popularity within the open source world.
I'm trying to use Ruby to write a script to run monkey test on the Android app. I'm stuck with 1.8 Ruby and can't use spawn.
See below code for detail. For some reasons, the logcat process will continue to run even after the monkey process has completed. I had used Process.wait() for wait for monkey process to completed before killing the logcat process, but it doesn't kill it.
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