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THIS WAS ORIGINALLY POSTED ON MY TUMBLR ON FEB 25, 2011. I forgot I had a Tumblr account. I recently logged in (in light of the acquisition by Automattic), found some old posts, and I'm republishing them exactly as they were with zero modifications.

CloudFormation: The Big Picture

Amazon announced CloudFormation to the public yesterday, and while the general opinion I could glean from various sources shows that people are excited about this new technology, many are still unsure what it is and how it fits into their current cloud workflow. I feel as though I have a firm grasp on CloudFormation and will attempt to answer some questions here.

Note: I'm definitely not a representative of Amazon in any way, and anything here is simply my educated opinion on the matter.

Find the original here article here: Devops Best Practices

DevOps started out as "Agile Systems Administration". In 2008, at the Agile Conference in Toronto, Andrew Shafer posted an offer to moderate an ad hoc "Birds of a Feather" meeting to discuss the topic of "Agile Infrastructure". Only one person showed up to discuss the topic: Patrick Debois. Their discussions and sharing of ideas with others advanced the concept of "agile systems administration". Debois and Shafer formed an Agile Systems Administrator group on Google, with limited success. Patrick Debois did a presentation called "Infrastructure and Operations" addressing

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Don't use VPN services.

No, seriously, don't. You're probably reading this because you've asked what VPN service to use, and this is the answer.

Note: The content in this post does not apply to using VPN for their intended purpose; that is, as a virtual private (internal) network. It only applies to using it as a glorified proxy, which is what every third-party "VPN provider" does.

A Russian translation of this article can be found here, contributed by Timur Demin.
A Turkish translation can be found here, contributed by agyild.
There's also this article about VPN services, which is honestly better written (and has more cat pictures!) than my article.

	RE: WHEN WILL WEB BROWSERS BE COMPLETE?
	2020-10-31 02:46PM
	A follow-up.

	There has been some great conversation around the opinion piece. Having read all
	200+ comments on YCombinator and Gist GitHub, I think it's most productive to
	respond to them all in this follow-up piece.

	The piece will be structured by looking at what I think are the most relevant
	critiques and comments, followed by adding context to others' comments, and

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	#!/bin/bash

	fname="$1"

	cachedir=/tmp/pdfextract
	mkdir -p "$cachedir"

	mtime="$(stat -c %Y "$1")"

	hash=$(echo $fname.$mtime \| sha256sum \| cut -c1-64)

	# LVDB - LLOOGG Memory DB
	# Copyriht (C) 2009 Salvatore Sanfilippo <[email protected]>
	# All Rights Reserved

	# TODO
	# - cron with cleanup of timedout clients, automatic dump
	# - the dump should use array startsearch to write it line by line
	# and may just use gets to read element by element and load the whole state.
	# - 'help','stopserver','saveandstopserver','save','load','reset','keys' commands.
	# - ttl with milliseconds resolution 'ttl a 1000'. Check ttl in dump!