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by vinay_ys 5y ago
Their paid managed service works well for enterprise SaaS companies who need < 3-4 TB of storage max ever per customer cluster and have enterprise scale users (<100k users). It also works well for early stage Consumer Internet startup
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by vinay_ys 5y ago
Currently I only trust these 3 factors of authentication used in combination correctly: 1. Memory (enter the site-specific password via the password manager which is unlocked by a password is from your memory). 2. Device (device-internal-ha
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by vinay_ys 5y ago
Wow, they buried their acknowledgement of mistake so deep. A decent thing to do would have been to update the blog post ( https://www.okta.com/blog/2022/03/oktas-investigation-of-the... ).
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by vinay_ys 5y ago
We know consumer software has bugs – that can make them unreliable, insecure and slow. They can become worse over time with more usage (more data/state accumulation). Unless we proactively find and fix them, they can continue to hurt u
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by vinay_ys 5y ago
People outsource auth to a specialised company (okta) and they outsource tier-1/2 support to a specialised company (because they are a multi-tenant B2B SaaS co.) If this were not a SaaS product, instead was a well-tested, audited and c
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by vinay_ys 5y ago
A typical opsec issue in many companies even to this day is doing ssh shell access to critical systems and doing so with ldap passwords or user-controlled authorised keys and without 2FA and without host key verification. There are trivial
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by vinay_ys 5y ago
I would consider this seriously if they also added these: Employees should be able to sell at every external funding rounds at fresh valuations. Company should share key performance metrics that drive investor interest and valuations with a
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by vinay_ys 5y ago
That's awesome. When it becomes widely available, I would be inclined to talk to my boss about it :-)
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by vinay_ys 5y ago
Yes, this is a real concern. No matter how good tail scale guys are, their control plane services become super attractive target for attackers (solar wind style attack). Tailscale could provide a "Github Enterprise" style on-prem
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by vinay_ys 5y ago
Key point I agree with: - hire people with domain and technical expertise; don't stumble through without expertise and having to reinvent things poorly and fail. The author seems to be advising to wait till you have a fairly concrete b
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by vinay_ys 5y ago
Laptops, especially the likes of MacOS with T2 chip in which all I/o goes through T2 can do some clever things. It can essentially turn the underlying NVMe SSD into a battery backed storage. Even if the OS on main CPU crashes and dies,
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by vinay_ys 5y ago
Google's internal security was one of the best I have experienced. Everywhere else, just the broken VPN drove me nuts. Also, one discipline I have maintained across many companies is clear separation between work devices and personal d
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by vinay_ys 5y ago
A typical multi-MW power-hungry high-tech facility (datacenters, manufacturing, hospitals etc) will have large underground fuel storage tanks big enough to run the full load on generators for couple of days and they are continuously kept re
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by vinay_ys 5y ago
It is much easier than you think. There are well-defined standards and trained trades people and whole host of companies who make great products and provide after-sales services to do it. Every major financial services, telecom and high-pre
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by vinay_ys 5y ago
Usually when someone claims T3+ they mean they have UPS clusters in 3+1 (or such) configuration and two different such UPS clusters power two power-strips in a rack. Then, would also have incoming grid power supply from two different HV sub
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by vinay_ys 5y ago
This is quite interesting as they claim their datacenter design does better than Uptime's Tier3+ design requirements which require redundant power supply paths. [ https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/uptimeinstitute&#x
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by vinay_ys 5y ago
This type of issue of OneMesh discovery could be a wifi chip firmware functionality that isn't programmable via host OS. In such a scenario, even if you could run your own host OS, it wouldn't be of much help.
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by vinay_ys 5y ago
For card-linked offer constructs you can infer the issuer based on first 4 digits (bin number) and actually store last 4 digits and name on card.
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by vinay_ys 5y ago
What was component X? Was it a buggy rollout?
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I would bet it is some ML model to detect fraud. This model will never be perfect – it will have false positives. My guess is – while picking the precision/recall thresholds for blocking users, someone higher up would have argued it is
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by vinay_ys 5y ago
Ah, 2010 - when web scale and its secret sauce – sharding was all the rage.
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UPI in India handles > 1 trillion USD (46 Billion transactions) of instant payments per year for free. With UPI, you can make P2P or P2M payments, govt subsidies and business payments can come to you directly and instantly. Bank account
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by vinay_ys 5y ago
At some point in life, usually when we see people around us dying of age-related or chronic illness, we start giving importance to our physical health – usually the heart, liver, kidney, joints etc. If we think of the brain/mind as ano
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by vinay_ys 5y ago
Graceful degradation by turning off optional features and making the critical path (order completion funnel) as lightweight as possible by reducing costs (# of results fetched/scored, turning off reco etc) was the best way to scale sys
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by vinay_ys 5y ago
Mobile App Social Media like FB is more like a micro-reality-tv channel in the form of text/image/short-video posts which are co-"produced" (like a tv show producer) by AI algorithms (in ranking) and yourself (in who you
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by vinay_ys 5y ago
Link is 2 years old article.
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Biggest difference between big tech companies and smaller companies is the sense of urgency to ship something to market and the time scale for that urgency. Bigger companies have lesser pressure to ship things too early and have slower (lar
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by vinay_ys 5y ago
I have a Nokia GPON Home Gateway+Wifi Router given by my Fiber ISP. And it is on UPS and its been running for weeks without reboot just fine.
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Very nice write up. For the story from 2010 to now, I would mention the emergence by MPP columnar processing systems like Vertica and in-memory distributed systems like MemSQL to the narrative. Of course Kylin, Clickhouse etc are great open
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Any power structure naturally seeks permanence. Democratic elections with short office terms goes against the nature. If we are not vigilant, shadowy forces will take control of this mechanism too. Some could argue it already has happened.

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