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by helper 12y ago
Buildroot[1] is another good tool for rolling your own rootfs. If you have ever built your own kernel (i.e. ran make menu-config) you will feel right at home using buildroot. And their documentation is fantastic[2]. Buildroot is a lot simpl
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Kythe: a new approach to making developer tools(google-opensource.blogspot.com)
3 points by helper 12y ago|0 comments
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by helper 12y ago
The one thing that I have never been able to work to my liking is running a shell inside emacs. I've tried the different modes (term, ansi-term, eshell) and find that they are all deficient in different ways. I think the main issue is
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by helper 12y ago
Cassandra.
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by helper 12y ago
Besides my database servers, all of my machines are ephemeral[1]. I can lose machines and spin up new ones automatically (and therefore scale elastically). EBS adds an unnecessary additional point of failure that I want to avoid at all cost
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by helper 12y ago
Ugh, very disappointed to see these are EBS only.
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by helper 12y ago
I don't know how Azure works but AWS reboots are fine with ephemeral disks. We backup all sstables to s3. We've never needed to restore a node from an s3 backup in 5 years of running in production.
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by helper 12y ago
> ...with a replication factor of 10 RF 10 is insane overkill. There is probably someone out there doing it, but it is completely unnecessary for %99.999 real world deployments. Getting back to your original comment, Azure persistent sto
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by helper 12y ago
I'm not really sure what you mean. The number of nodes you need depends on the capacity you need and your replication factor. Most C* deployments are in the 9-15 node range. You could safely deploy with 6 nodes and RF3 if 6 nodes gives
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by helper 12y ago
The AWS HSM service supports backing to your own HSM: http://aws.amazon.com/cloudhsm/faqs/
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by helper 12y ago
We run all our ec2 instances on ephemeral disk instances. Historically running on ebs was a great way to ensure application downtime. Ephemeral drives mean you need to change the design of your application to be able to withstand full loss
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by helper 12y ago
When can I buy a phone with a Type C connector?
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by helper 12y ago
The 31c3 video for this exploit is here: http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2014/31c3_-_6128_-_en_-_...
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by helper 12y ago
This attack "closes the door behind it" so that you can't use the same vector to undo it. Specifically it completely disables loading option ROMs.
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by helper 12y ago
Here's the raw 31C3 video that goes along with this (it starts about 16 minutes in): http://streaming.media.ccc.de/relive/6156/
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by helper 12y ago
Redhat 7? Oh you must mean RHEL 7. Redhat 7.1 was the first distro I ever installed back in 2001. At the time NetworkManager didn't exist.
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by helper 12y ago
The techreport's SSD endurance series covers which SMART attributes are relevant to which manufacturers [1]. When we were getting ready to move some production systems over to SSDs we took one drive and wrote random data to it until it
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by helper 12y ago
The video that goes with these slides is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cyd22kOqWc
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by helper 12y ago
This is cool and a lot cheaper than the HSM option. It's not entirely clear to me what the API for using the keys will be. The white paper gives an example of getting a plaintext key and encryption key for doing application level encry
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AWS CodeDeploy(aws.amazon.com)
211 points by helper 12y ago|51 comments
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by helper 12y ago
Not sure what in the announcement you are referring to. The only thing it says about Docker is that it has brought move visibility to OS-virtualization. But, Joyent is infact working on docker support for SmartOS. They have revived an old S
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by helper 12y ago
Wow. It is a huge amount of work to take a product like manta and open source it. This is great work by Joyent and a testament to their commitment to open source.
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Attack of the week: POODLE(blog.cryptographyengineering.com)
4 points by helper 12y ago|0 comments
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by helper 12y ago
We use deb-s3[1] to maintain a custom apt repository in s3. It supports signed release files and does all the hard work for you. [1]: https://github.com/krobertson/deb-s3
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by helper 12y ago
You also need NSS >= 3.16.2.
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by helper 12y ago
Yes, we're seeing similar failures at 1 minute past the hour.
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Go Builder Plan(golang.org)
94 points by helper 12y ago|19 comments
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by helper 12y ago
Every company that I have worked at has had disaster plans for things like that. My current company's plan is basically: redundant data centers in geographically dispersed areas and a transportation plan to get critical staff members t
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by helper 12y ago
Read ahead is a kernel level parameter; having tuned it before (also for a Cassandra ring) I would not expect to have to restart any user level processes for it to take effect. But the real issue is understanding the platform that you are b
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by helper 12y ago
Please see the answer by cryptographer Thomas Pornin on AES 128 vs 256: http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/14068/why-most-p...

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