Recently I was working on a code release on a site running PHP on Apache httpd, and using memcached. Without getting into specifics, we had a number of issues that were both Apache and memcached problems, and little visibility into them as it was running on an older server without …

I spend a fair amount of my time debugging network and service problems on a few racks of Linux servers. Of course, they’re located in a data center (yes, just downstairs, but still not quite as comfortable as my office), and they’re all command-line only - no sense in …