Tech Messages | 2007-12-18

A special extended edition of Tech Messages for 2007-12-17 through 2007-12-18:

• Testing Connectivity with fping and send mail if any hosts are unreachable
  Here’s a simple idea for automating connectivity tests without the overhead of something like Nagios.
• Monitoring the Email Monitor - The Daily WTF
  Absolutely classic - must read!
• MySQL: Data Storage or Data Processing | MySQL Performance Blog
  I work regularly with tables that includes tens of millions of rows, and I concur. Something must be done!
• Google Apps Email Migration API Developer’s Guide: Protocol - Google Apps APIs - Google Code
  API for migrating any email application to Google.