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yashkadakiaon How Canva saves Amazon S3 costs

Yup, we just moved large chunks of our SaaS platform from the cloud to dedicated servers with Kubernetes serving as an internal cloud. Ended up reducing our cost to 30% (70% saved!).

We realized that instead of using scaling for peaks, by having additional dedicated servers available full time - it still worked out significantly cheaper. We also moved a lot of our internal processing to run in specific windows of time where the expected load was low to maximize server utilization in those periods.

yashkadakiaon My own phone number is now spam texting me

We need a GIF of Nelson going "Stop spamming your self, stop spamming your self"

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/921915b0-4a3b-4e96-beed-eb7b50a...

yashkadakiaon How do I report a security vulnerability about a trusted certificate authority?

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.in/2013/10/going-beyond...

yashkadakiaon Google to Encrypt All Keyword Searches

That's great. Somebody wake me when they stop sharing the key with anyone who asks.

yashkadakiaon Fatal crypto flaw in some government-certified smartcards makes forgery a snap

Flaw? You mean feature.

-- Love, NSA.

yashkadakiaon India will reportedly ban use of US e-mail services

In India most Government departments, even the intelligence agencies use Yahoo or Gmail. Its terrible.

yashkadakiaon Hacker Posts Facebook Bug Report on Mark Zuckerberg’s Wall

I want to step in here - Facebook is in no-way trying to save a few bucks. I've reported a few bugs to Facebook and they go out of their way to pay you greater sums depending on the severity.

You just have to be professional and disclose in-detail with steps to reproduce.

yashkadakiaon In India, Prism-like Surveillance Slips Under the Radar

I am really not too worried about this because - I know that corruption and incompetence will ensure this system never comes into place effectively.

On the few occasions that the government has tried to ban certain URLs - its almost always been simple DNS filters that can be bypassed by using Google DNS.

yashkadakiaon Facebook is Blocking Connections from Tor Network

Um... https://www.google.com/search?q=NSA+Snowden

yashkadakiaon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2013)

Security Brigade - Mumbai, India

We're looking for talented Application Security Consultants who will be responsible for security assessments and penetration testing of application and enterprise environments as well as security research and development of security tools, processes and testing methodologies.

More details can be found at: http://www.securitybrigade.com/careers/security-consultant-j...

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