ktheory

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by ktheory 10y ago
(Kickstarter staff here.) We did. Those are great projects. Personally, I see Vault having a lot of community momentum behind it; and it can easily solve some complicated security infrastructure beyond storing secrets (the PKI, MySQL &
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Refactoring for performance: How Kickstarter made the homepage 100ms faster(kickstarter.com)
3 points by ktheory 12y ago|0 comments
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Coordinating with Trello Cards(kickstarter.com)
1 points by ktheory 12y ago|0 comments
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by ktheory 13y ago
Keep in mind that correlation is not causation. :-) (disclaimer: I work at kickstarter)
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Hierarchy of DevOps Needs(kickstarter.com)
2 points by ktheory 13y ago|0 comments
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How to let developers do your job(kickstarter.com)
2 points by ktheory 13y ago|0 comments
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by ktheory 13y ago
Yeah, iptables works great for that. I also like nginx's limit_zone module. You can put limit_zone in the proxy stanza, and only throttle dynamic requests without throttling access to fast static files. We often use Rack::Attack to throttle
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Rack Attack: Protection from abusive clients(kickstarter.com)
92 points by ktheory 13y ago|27 comments
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by ktheory 19y ago
Companies exist in large part to avoid transaction costs of using several autonomous market agents (the thesis of _The Nature of the Firm_ http://www.cerna.ensmp.fr/Enseignement/CoursEcoIndus/Support... by Ronald Coase, 1937) Vertically i
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by ktheory 19y ago
I've had good experience with Panther Express: http://pantherexpress.com/
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by ktheory 19y ago
It's inane.
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by ktheory 19y ago
We've had a lot of success with Trac. Over the past 18 months, we've tweaked our milestones/iteration process several times, and each time we've found Trac suited to our style.