Posted by jasonc, Tue Aug 05 22:50:00 UTC 2008

Commuting

One of the biggest changes in moving here has been my daily commute. In Dayton it very difficult to get around without a car. Technically you can get around via bus, but the area of service is rather limited.

Here, I almost never drive. I take the train to work and frequently take the bus to get other places. About the only place I drive it to our data center in San Jose, and mostly due to how late it is when I tend to leave there. Though after midnight taking public transportation does get a little more difficult.

The trains here are rather nice. There is a Caltrain station a 15 minute walk from our apartment, and the office is 5 minutes from one in San Francisco. I spend anywhere from 20-40 minutes on the train depending on which train I get on. No wifi, but my evdo card works well for most of the trip. I tend to read more than hack though, just not really enough time to get into anything. Also, unless you get on one of the newer trains the seats are rather cramped.

Work

Wikia is a great place to work. I’ve been having lots of fun while working on some really great projects. Next week I’m off to Iowa to start the build out of our backup data center. Not looking forward to switching between the cool dry air of the data center and the 100+ temperatures outside, but starting from scratch and doing it right is going to be a lot of fun.

I’m hoping to start making available a bit of what I’ve been doing. We open sourced our production code recently, we want to get most of the operations stuff up there in the near future. We’re also thinking about opening up our ganglia data, which should keep the obsessive stats types busy. Last I looked we were sampling around 1200 data points a minute.

I’ve got a few ideas for some mini posts coming up, so it shouldn’t be too long before you hear from me again.

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