Paul's Journal

My name is Paul Querna.

This site houses my various (mostly) technical blog posts.

I currently work at Rackspace, on the Cloud Monitoring team.

Recent Posts

2012

March

• March 13, 2012 » Retaliatory Only Patents
• March 1, 2012 » March 2012

February

• February 22, 2012 » Designing Network Protocols

January

• January 5, 2012 » Rackspace Open Sources Dreadnot, a Continuous Deployment tool

2011

December

• December 31, 2011 » 2011 Timecards
• December 26, 2011 » Write Logs for Machines, use JSON
• December 18, 2011 » The Switch: Python to Node.js
• December 17, 2011 » Technology behind Rackspace Cloud Monitoring
• December 9, 2011 » Node.js interview @ VentureBeat
• December 3, 2011 » Technology enables better Support Experiences

April

• April 5, 2011 » OpenSSL memory use in Node.js

2010

December

• December 16, 2010 » Rackspace acquires Cloudkick
• December 15, 2010 » UDP in Node.js

November

• November 11, 2010 » Enabling JNA in Apache Cassandra 0.6
• November 6, 2010 » Disappointed.
• November 3, 2010 » Interview about Libcloud at ApacheCon
• November 2, 2010 » The case for Gossip

October

• October 23, 2010 » three things
• October 22, 2010 » Evolution of Apache's websites
• October 12, 2010 » Java Trap, 2010 Edition
• October 6, 2010 » Transforming Streams

September

• September 24, 2010 » Who are you writing code for?
• September 24, 2010 » Cassandra Token Selection
• September 24, 2010 » Random thoughts from the trenches
• September 4, 2010 » Limiting Concurrency in Node.js