A few months ago, we announced that the US Maven Central server was moved to a virtual system.
In the natural course of machine rotations, I had some out of warranty machines de-racked, packaged up and sent from the Contegix data center to our headquarters in Silver Spring, MD.
When I unboxed them, it dawned on me for the first time that I was laying eyes on a machine so many people have relied upon for years, and yet had been so far unseen.
Well, here it is:
A few facts about Central during the time it was hosted on the machine, you see here (3/2007 - 3/2011):
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Original configuration:
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Dell PowerEdge 2950
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2 x E5310 Xeon 1.6ghz processors
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4gb 533Mhz RAM
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3 x 73gb SAS 15k Hard drives
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Artifacts requested over 12 billion times by 14.3 million unique IP addresses
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Repository size as of Jan, 2009: 60 GB (this is the earliest confirmed size I can track down)
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Repository size as of today: 286 GB
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Projected size next month with the addition of Java.net: 350 GB
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This machine never had a hardware failure. In fact, even the original drives and RAM are still functioning perfectly.
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It was only rebooted / power-cycled twice, once to add more RAM and once to add some bigger disks
It boggles my mind to think about how many applications both commercial and open source contain bits fetched from this singular machine. Now that we have two machines in the UK and 2 VMs floating across 6 hosts in the US, there can never be a single machine in the future we can gaze upon and say "that was Central."
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Brian Fox, CTO and co-founder of Sonatype, is a Governing Board Member for the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), a Governing Board Member for the Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS), a member of the Monetary Authority of Singapore Cyber and Technology Resilience Experts (CTREX) Panel, a member of the Apache Software Foundation and former Chair of the Apache Maven project. Working with OpenSSF, Brian helped create The Open Source Consumption Manifesto, urging organizations to elevate awareness of open source usage. He also chaired efforts to provide official responses to requests for information from the The Office of the National Cybersecurity Directorate (ONCD) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Within the Atlantic Council's Open Source Policy Network, Brian actively helps shape cybersecurity strategy, offering valuable insights on critical documents, such as ONCD's recent National Cyber Security Strategy. Brian has over 20 years of experience driving the vision behind, as well as developing and leading the development of software for organizations ranging from startups to large enterprises. Brian is a frequent speaker at national and regional events including Java User Groups and other security and development-related conferences.
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