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Important note, this is not a feature provided by Google; it is "offered by www.eisbahn.jp/yoichiro" per Chrome Web store.

I wonder if the devices were actually encrypted already, and were simply rebooted so they would all be sitting at a boot password prompt.

That could be an interesting model if your web app is a single-page / static app served from Google Cloud Storage, with Javascript making AJAX calls to your backend and configured to gracefully handle transient errors as servers come and go.

Uh, this feature has been available for years, hardly "news".

Alarmist headline for an obscure driver, that, while included in the kernel, is almost certainly not running on your production Linux server. Seems to be related to products from Ozmo Device Inc. that push USB data over a layer 2 Wi-Fi Direct connection: http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/staging/ozwpan/

You can't succeed with this model by just setting your firewall to allow 0.0.0.0/0. This approach still requires defense in depth, and a holistic view of security. If someone was able to deface your web app, then your company wasn't actually using all the components that are required to make this model work (such as authenticated devices, device patch management, and user 2-factor authentication).

Why would you use this instead of AWS Elasticache w/ the Redis option?

The advice I've heard from serious people using Elasticsearch for serious things indicate that you should definitely not use Elasticsearch as a primary data store (i.e. it should be treated as a cache).

I wonder if the lack of help from LACP was because DRBD is using only 1 TCP session, which would only get hashed to one or the other member link?

I tried Openshift 2 briefly, but didn't adopt it partially because it was too opinionated for my taste. I am excited about Openshift 3 for its adoption of Docker containers and Kubernetes.

The smartest advice I've received on Cat5 is don't cut off both sides at once; one of them might be good.

This post is from last year. I've been using these images on GCE for testing and they work well. Works particularly nicely for getting a Deis PaaS up and running quickly.

IANAL... is this even legal given that the US Dollar is the only official currency of the United States?

Why not use client-side SSL certificates in the browser?

You could always take some Art of War inspiration and learn MongoDB really well before your interview, then once you get in there become the in-house Mongo go-to expert, then use your clout to recommend a replacement. :)

In my experience, developers' top 3 mistakes in this area are:

1. Convincing themselves they have "big data" instead of just "data". If it fits in RAM on your laptop, it's definitely not "big".

2. Thinking an example of "sophisticated analytics" is "Average over time with no standard deviation".

3. Resume Driven Development over pragmatic solutions that get stuff done.

Yeah, Google Domains runs your domain on Google Cloud DNS. My DNS servers are ns-cloud{1..4}.googledomains.com.

Google Domains includes phone support.

I have been approximately you a couple times. If it were me in your shoes again, I would leverage the huge amount of knowledge/skills I've acquired and jump into a new opportunity. There are basically 3 directions: 1) start your own company that you will build yourself, 2) find another startup in a similar spot to where you were 2 years ago, or 3) join a big company. I will say a likely outcome of joining a big company is you will be expected to focus, having relatively shallow but deep expertise (i.e. specialization of labor).

Article is from February 2014.

Many organizations that have the problem this solves are already complex enough to benefit from LDAP. etcd is not appropriate to use outside a controlled server environment because it's not authenticated.

Wow, I think it would be awesome to publish some analysis of lessons learned + recovery playbook.

I'm pretty sure we can assume the attackers know how to mitigate these. Just like home burglars know how to prevent burglaries.

If I understand correctly, Docker's performance on OS X is a function of running in a Linux virtual machine, because Docker requires Linux. Is there something about Docker that you feel like inhibits performance beyond the VM itself?

If folks are looking for an alternative DNS host, there is Google Cloud DNS, which I have been using for a while via Google Domains and it's pretty awesome. Conceptually similar to Route53. Can use Google Cloud DNS without using other Google Cloud Platform services. https://cloud.google.com/dns/docs

It seems like DDoS attacks are becoming more prevalent. Are there forums where attacked companies can share data about the attacks they see and what they had to do to mitigate them? I feel like there should be public community resources around DDoS attacks like there are around other security vulnerabilities.

At least with .rar files you can still see the list of files in the archive even if it's password protected.

You might be surprised to learn the Linux Kernel is on Github: https://github.com/torvalds/linux

Has libcontainer[1] been considered as a minimal Docker alternative?

[1] https://github.com/docker/libcontainer

I was really hoping for some concrete app-development lessons learned. For example, was it important to target old/low-end versions of phones? The article both says SMS is a lowest-common-denominator, but also that smartphones are more prevalent than one might assume; what was the outcome from those considerations? I noticed the food stamps app presents one question at a time, with a "Next" button after each one. Was that approach discovered after user testing, or was there just an assumption that that would be more successful for the user base than showing all the prompts on one screen?

Also, I am excited the IT industry has evolved to where these point-solution apps are both easy to build and plentiful. This is the "long tail" in action.

There is a lot of backend infrastructure that enables what I call "UX apps", where 90%+ of the effort is on frontend design and functional requirements, and very little consideration needs to be paid to infrastructure issues like OSes, networking, high availability, etc. The enablers here are things like PaaS, powerful mobile and browser clients, and reliable and prevalent communications (cellular / WiFi).