Reliability of Clustered Solutions: Another Data Point « ipSpace.net by @ioshints
A while ago I wrote: I haven’t seen any hard data, but intuition suggests that apart from hardware failures a standalone firewall might be more stable than a state-sharing firewall cluster. Guillaume Sachot (working for a web hosting company) sent me his first-hand experience on this topic:
This post is the (long awaited, or at least long promised) third post in my series on Rayon’s parallel iterators. The previous two posts were some time ago, ...
"Sorry" doesn't mean you caused the pain. It merely means that you see it, that you've felt pain before in your life as well, that you are open to a connection. Our ability to b…
Examples of Design vs. Evolution Thinking in Various Industries
I wrote recently about Design vs. Evolution based thinking. In that piece I outlined the basic concepts and made an attempt to capture some examples. Here
Project delays: why good software estimates are impossible – Christian M. Mackeprang
Have you ever tried to solve a Rubik’s cube and been unable to complete it? I once tried several times during a long bus trip and felt pretty bummed after failing every time. Then I learned t…
How to practically use your Linux terminal (part 2)
Quite a while ago, we had published a post that showcased four examples of how Linux users can utilize their terminal to perform simple daily tasks an...
Innovation vs. invasion: Inserting privacy controls and due process into semi-autonomous algorithms - O'Reilly Media
Matthew Carroll highlights the current design model for machine learning and deep learning and discusses new methods that make privacy an embedded feature.
How liars create the illusion of truth – Mind Hacks
Repetition makes a fact seem more true, regardless of whether it is or not. Understanding this effect can help you avoid falling for propaganda, says psychologist Tom Stafford. “Repeat a lie often …
Sovrin can improve healthcare and make it less costly by providing an identity system that combines a secure means of exchanging verifiable claims and patient consent that is a structural component of the system.
The Enterprise of the Future Will Need Connected Big Data - The New Stack
"We are entering the connected age,” Emil Eifrem, Founder and CEO of Neo Technology, said in his keynote at the GraphConnect conference in San Francisco. The future “is highly, highly connected.” Oh, and he just happens to have an app for that. In 2027, 75 percent of the companies currently on the S&P 500 will…
It's All About Software Development: The Fierce Rise of AWS - The New Stack
The coverage of the rise of Amazon Web Services (AWS) into a $10-Billion-dollar-a-year company is rarely accompanied by a coherent, comprehensive explanation of why. Why did Amazon rise so quickly with its public Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), and why is it taking so much spend from so many players (hardware, software, and services) so quickly? The press…
Use and automate letsencrypt certificates (ACME) in an high-availability environment - chr4
Mozilla launched a “free, automated and open” certificate authority called Let’s encrypt. As the name suggests, it provides free certificates trusted by all (major) browsers and operating systems. I’m using it heavily (on this blog, for example). This blog post shows how Syncthing can be used to deploy letsencrypt certificates in an environment with multiple servers (e.g. in a round-robin scenario) without adding a single-point-of-failure.