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RT @netpresops: We’re on-track for our Scheduled W…

Posted on April 14, 2015 by richard

RT @netpresops: We’re on-track for our Scheduled Works tomorrow night. blog.networkpresence.co/?p=6451 #NetPres

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Yelp Engineering Blog on “Making HAProxy Reloads N…

Posted on April 13, 2015 by richard

Yelp Engineering Blog on “Making HAProxy Reloads Not Drop Traffic” engineeringblog.yelp.com/2015/04/true-z…

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Tele-commuting FTW: “the at-home workers were not…

Posted on April 13, 2015 by richard

Tele-commuting FTW: “the at-home workers were not only happier and less likely to quit but also more productive” hbr.org/2014/01/to-rai…

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RT @QLDWhitsundays: We use Network Presence for ou…

Posted on April 12, 2015 by richard

RT @QLDWhitsundays: We use Network Presence for our High Performance VPS & Cloud hosting. bit.ly/1NvKCqg @netpres

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RT @freakonometrics: “Time required to brute-force…

Posted on April 12, 2015 by richard

RT @freakonometrics: “Time required to brute-force crack a password depending on password entropy” reddit.com/r/dataisbeauti… http://t.co/CraZH6xjZI

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Lovely history of the past, present & future o…

Posted on April 9, 2015 by richard

Lovely history of the past, present & future of XFS. lwn.net/Articles/63854…

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100s of Python “Boltons”: over 100 BSD-licensed, p…

Posted on April 9, 2015 by richard

100s of Python “Boltons”: over 100 BSD-licensed, pure-Python utilities in the same spirit as the standard library. github.com/mahmoud/boltons

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Cheeky but effective way to close a file descripto…

Posted on April 9, 2015 by richard

Cheeky but effective way to close a file descriptor of a running process in Linux with gdb. incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/c…

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In-depth discussion of how CloudFlare scaled out t…

Posted on April 9, 2015 by richard

In-depth discussion of how CloudFlare scaled out their Postgres DB with CitusDB, incl logging etc. blog.cloudflare.com/scaling-out-po…

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RT @garethr: @patrickdebois @ddccffvv @iteration1…

Posted on April 8, 2015 by richard

RT @garethr: @patrickdebois @ddccffvv @iteration1 @jezhumble a full example github.com/secure-pipelin…

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