I think you’re really beautiful and I feel really warm when I’m around you and my tongue swells up. – Buddy the Elf
JSON will be the death of me
I don’t do a lot of JSON parsing but when I do I tend to get just a little frustrated. Honestly I almost always try and retrieve API responses as XML if the option is there, but sometimes it isn’t and sorting through JSON is the only alternative! I’m a newbie to this stuff and still am learning quite a deal about interacting with APIs using various methods – one of the many reason I follow Scott Lowe’s blog regularly. In a post this week he introduced us to a lightweight command line tool called jq, which looks like it could most definitely help me with my JSON woes – next time I find myself staring down at a page full of squigglies (not sure of the official term for {}) I’ll give it a go… Thanks Scott!
Embedded Host Client is awesome x 5
I haven’t had a lot of time to spend with the Embedded Host Client fling – a replacement that will allow us to do away with the giant c# installable that we have all grown to love for individual host management. I did get to use the EHC early on, and it was not the greatest experience – but as time went on and it was released via VMware Flings it is now a lot better, in fact people are loving it! Here’s a great article outlining 5 reasons why the Embedded Host Client is awesome!
VVOLs 4 DBs!
VVOLs is still a little unknown when it comes to adoption – I haven’t seen a lot of blogs or information out there about widespread adoption! I do know that there is general excitement out there and definitely benefits to be had by utilizing them, however they are still a little “ripe” in IT years! That said there’s an interesting series on the VMware blogs going on right now outlining the benefits they can provide to databases – you can check out Part 1 and Part 2 if you like…
The Expert Guide to VMware Disaster Recovery and Data Protection
Shameless plug for myself on this one – A few months ago I began work on a guide for Veeam centering around how to provide Data Protection within a VMware environment – and the result is finally live! Note – you are going to hit a reg-wall when trying to view this – it’s the nature of the world we live in, but if you do end up checking it out I’d love to know what you think – good or bad, but mostly good!
