Aram Boyajyan aramboyajyan

Running redis using upstart on Ubuntu

I've been trying to understand how to setup systems from the ground up on Ubuntu. I just installed redis onto the box and here's how I did it and some things to look out for.

To install:

How Companies Communicated Being Hacked

Evernote

It’s probably a pretty bad idea to have your site go down, when people are supposed to read the blog post explaining the hack.

Twitter

Notice how another site reporting the hack received more attention than Twitter’s own announcement. Why was that?

Frontend Development

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Build your own private, encrypted, open-source Dropbox-esque sync folder

Prerequisites:

One or more clients running a UNIX-like OS. Examples are given for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, although all software components are available for other platforms as well (e.g. OS X). YMMV
A cheap Ubuntu 12.04 VPS with storage. I recommend Backupsy, they offer 250GB storage for $5/month. Ask Google for coupon codes.

Software components used:

Unison for file synchronization
EncFS for folder encryption

Sample Projects

Python

Flask conventions/best practices - https://github.com/mjhea0/flask-tracking (first 2 parts of a 7 series piece)
Boilerplate for Flask - https://github.com/mjhea0/flask-boilerplate
Django Testing - http://www.realpython.com/blog/python/testing-in-django-part-2-model-mommy-vs-django-testing-fixtures/
Django Debug Toolbar - http://gun.io/blog/debugging-SQL/
Dokku and Django - http://gun.io/blog/deploying-django-app-on-dokku/

Basecamp was under network attack

The attack detailed below has stopped (for the time being) and almost all network access for almost all customers have been restored. We're keeping this post and the timeline intact for posterity. Unless the attack resumes, we'll post a complete postmortem within 48 hours (so before Wednesday, March 26 at 11:00am central time).

Criminals have laid siege to our networks using what's called a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) starting at 8:46 central time, March 24 2014. The goal is to make Basecamp, and the rest of our services, unavailable by flooding the network with bogus requests, so nothing legitimate can come through. This attack was launched together with a blackmail attempt that sought to have us pay to avoid this assault.

Note that this attack targets the network link between our servers and the internet. All the data is safe and sound, but nobody is able to get to it as long as the attack is being successfully executed. This is like a bunch of people

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