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As starter read Mikito Takada (mixu) book "Distributed Systems For Fun and Profit" http://book.mixu.net/distsys/single-page.html

Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods (http://www.somethingsimilar.com/2013/01/14/notes-on-distribu...)

A Note on Distributed Computing (http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.41.7...)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_distributed_comput...

You can read additional pointer from Henry blog :http://the-paper-trail.org/blog/distributed-systems-theory-f...

StartSSL also provide free certificate : https://www.startssl.com/

You might also want to use http://www.cacert.org/

and don't forget https://letsencrypt.org/

If you have budget and want to use for multiple sub domains you might want to buy wildcard certificate which can be used to secure *.domain.com.

Domain validated certificate is good for security. having a organization validated or extended validation certificate will not improve your security.

If you already use project management software like jira, I think you can use that? so the lane will be available, borrowed, returned.

Add book as issue and people can move books from available to borrowed and returned. But there should be one person as owner of the library who will check and the only one who can drag book from returned to availabe

I personally use webfaction to host several low traffic blog. Webfaction have good customer support. If you want to host static site you might want to try put it on AWS S3 or github pages (https://pages.github.com)

Thoughtbot also have laptop (https://github.com/thoughtbot/laptop)

I write a bash script to install standard development tools for developers in my company. I put most of the application on local server inside company network so I don't have to re-download the application from internet. I plan to release this script sometime this month

If you only want to aggregate content you might want to use planetplanet (www.planetplanet.org)

Google Apps is good. Have large storage, IMAP and POP access and also you can sync calendar, contacts etc to your devices.

If you use MS office a lot perhaps office 365 subscription is better suit for you.

I heard fastmail is also provide good mail service.

If you want free wan zoho also provide free mail service with your own domain http://www.zoho.com/mail/

Macbook if you are ok with mac. or thinkpad classic series. T series or W series should be fine for student. Whatever your choice don't forget to choose SSD or spare budget for upgrading hard disk to SSD.

If you use multiple sub domain for different environment (development, staging, production) you can also choose wildcard SSL so you can use one certificate for *.yourdomain.com

SSL Labs' SSL test (https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/) does not use certificate type (domain validated, org, EV) as criteria to get higher score.

Both should be reliable. The benefit you get with logstash or ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) is that you can graph the log, search the logs easily from multiple servers and set alert based on anomaly pattern found on logs.

When we delete a user on google apps it will offer to transfer drive ownership to another users. We have File Sharing user that will be the new owner of all documents of the deleted user.

For emails you can export data from Google (https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3024190?hl=en) but I have no idea how to import.

You might also want to look at Spanning (http://spanning.com/products/google-apps-backup/)

I agree with striking about Go and Rust. But I think Python and Ruby is not going anywhere soon. Most large systems still use Java (or Scala) right now so this is a good skill too

If you use Mac you can use keychain to save all those passwords. If not you can use password manager.

1Password and LastPass is a good alternatives. Both of them offer hosted service where you can sync all your passwords. This is really needed if you have several team members that need access to these passwords.

AFAIK the service also allow you to save ssh private keys. in case you also need to save lots of keys

1. Yes. Because we are service company. We track both billable and not billable work. We Also use Harvest. On my previous company we use WR Timetracker self hosted. Using SaaS time tracker is way better than self hosted (less to maintain).

2.The interface is simple, have android and ios app. What I don't like so far from harvest is when you submit timesheet with expenses it will give you confirmation page that have button to click below. I was thinking already submit where I haven't because I haven't click the submit button on confirmation page. Perhaps this is feature :)

You might want to try http://apiary.io/