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Understanding the business reasons for needing an infrastructure. A love of automation, bordering on an obsession. A deep understanding of the individual technologies that make up the stack, as well as a higher-level view of how all of the
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They've been tweeting about it for an hour or so: https://twitter.com/SendGrid I would expect them to send emails to customers in the event of serious issues though, expecting your customers to learn about problems through Twitter isn't t
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This question is one of my favourites when interviewing front/back-end developers and sysadmins. It gives candidates the chance to talk about the part of the stack they find interesting, so I can see what they are most knowledgeable/passion
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Social, perhaps. Showing off your collection could be a motivating factor. But gamification I'm not so sure about. IMHO the typical wine collector will not be impressed by a "bought 10 bottles" badge, or something along those lines. Keep in
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Interesting writeup James, thanks for sharing. The point about talking to salespeople being "part of the fun" is interesting - it's counter-intuitive to my engineer's mind, but I can see how the sales process is actually part of the value t
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That doesn't really matter in this case - the fact that the HTML references assets that are on the OP's site is pretty conclusive proof that this is a direct copy, rather than an "inspired design" or convergent evolution.
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Would you be interested in posting the numbers you used for your calculations? I appreciate it is confidential information, but I find it very difficult to believe your tax rate is 70%. If you are in fact paying 70% of your income in taxes,
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Yes, I agree, I was just giving an example of how an additional layer can help protect against automated attacks, even for highly-secure services like SSH. I also agree that SSH is less likely to have flaws than most VPN software. But on a
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I, also, trust SSH more than any other software. But it is still worth adding an additional layer of security in front of SSH to help protect from exploits. Let's say that, hypothetically, a 0-day exploit was discovered in SSH which allowed
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SEEKING WORK - Amsterdam, London, Remote. I am a sysadmin who loves to efficiently solve business problems. With a DevOps background, twelve years of sysadmin experience, and a passion for problem-solving, I am keen to help HNers achieve th
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All-caps titles are not good etiquette, flagged.
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I think you should explain more about the service. Going straight to a demo is good, but for a service like this the server-side implementations steps are very important. There are a few ways of supporting remote errors pages, which are you
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Thanks for the responses folks - it seems like a combined approach is preferable. I'll be doing a ShowHN as soon as it is published :) If anyone wants to make suggestions about other content you'd like to see in the book, please let me know
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This is the most interesting news I've heard from AWS in a long time. I don't mean to suggest that they have not produced any exciting news in a while, but that this is service is so exciting because it will fundamentally change how a lot o
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> (Guess the precipitating event: "Memo to all developers: One should never, ever, ever, ever, ever mention a developer who is no longer with the firm in a commit message.") Is the purpose here to limit the amount of material that migh
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Without drills, how would you suggest Facebook tests the response times and standards of their security teams? If you want to know how the team will react under pressure, you essentially have two options: - make up a fake security alert - w
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If I understand correctly, you want to learn more about the processes Heroku handles on your behalf? There are a few things you could do to get more familiar with the underlying tech: ) Deploy your application to AWS instead of Heroku. This
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If I were attempting to solve this problem I would... ) Find an African SMS gateway which offers an API to send/receive messages. You could probably make this work with an SMS to email gateway as well, although it would add some complexity.
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Yes, it would. Also, "sudo -s".
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SEEKING WORK - Amsterdam, London, Remote. I am a sysadmin who loves to efficiently solve business problems. With a DevOps background, twelve years of sysadmin experience, and a passion for problem-solving, I am keen to help HNers achieve th
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Fashiolista - Amsterdam, NL. Python/Django developers, DevOps. Full time, on-site in our office in the center of Amsterdam. We are a funded startup looking for Python/Django developers and sysadmins with AWS experience... or ideally someone
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Ask HN: What would you like to see in a book about AWS System Administration?
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How about "session cookies for ecommerce and other transactional style web interaction, that track users across multiple sites without their knowledge or consent"? Are these good or bad? We can decide on a case by case basis whether any par
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Conveniently, AWS has just made a case study on Fashiolista's setup, which will save me a bit of typing: http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/fashiolista/ We run PostgreSQL and use its built in streaming replication. Deploys are h
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TellHN: Just started an Amsterdam DevOps meetup group
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> so I'm going to try to be shorter this time (no promises on whether I'll succeed): I'm guessing not ;-) Thanks for taking the time to write a reply. I don't usually make posts complaining about people's posts for the same reason - as
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roel_v, you have attributed a few statements to digitalengineer's post that were not in fact there. " permutation of '<country I live in X> doesn't use credit cards, I'm so much smarter than those Americans'." He just said that he
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Are there any plans to allow international customers (for me, UK and Netherlands) to accept credit card payments? Integration with Moneybookers (or similar) would enable a huge range of payment options for European freelancers, and could re
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Yes, although I couldn't find a good example of a license that stipulates these conditions the following wiki page might help you on your search: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-licensing#Market_segregat... Another option would be to h
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> Personally, if I'm making a profit (assuming that's my goal) then I could care less what you call me. I'm creating value where there was none before. Well that's something we can certainly agree on :)

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