Things I did today

Among other things, in the past 24 hours, I've:

  • set up an RDS MySQL instance
  • made an RDS instance a replication slave of our database hosted with Linode
  • fiddled with my bash prompt and other .bash_profile goodies
  • made breakfasts and lunches for my 2 little kids
  • made myself a lovely salad for lunch
  • dropped my kids at school (bigger task than it sounds like)
  • gone to work, where I
    • held scrum
    • reviewed and merged pull requests
    • reviewed and rejected pull requests
    • finished a bug fix
    • reverted a major feature deployment
    • communicated a plan to migrate our database off of Linode and into RDS
    • debugged and tested our database migration plan
  • went to a meetup
  • fixed my home printer not printing
  • plunged a toilet
  • cleaned a toilet
  • written this blog post

Still to do:Update: Also Done

  • review and script our migration plan
  • migrate our database off of Linode and into RDS

3 comments

  1. I have chivers when I think of the time when we’ll move off of Linode… I fear that our MySQL replication “accross” the web will be quite flaky given the volume of transactions 🙁

  2. I had been pretty apprehensive, too. But Linode just forced our hand with this downtime. AWS has the same security issue to deal with, but no downtime.

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