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AWS has considerable defenses against DDOS attacks of all types - here's the video from Reinvent 2015 which introduces many of Amazon's defenses as well as best practices - https:/…

Given that so many of us are now hosting on AWS, I'd like to ask the question - who has been hit with a DDOS attack / extortion letter while is hosting on AWS? It would seem that t…

Be very wary of signing up for Comcast business service. They have an auto-renewal policy that renews your contract every year even though you thought you'd signed up for a single …

I faced the same challenge. Jon Kabat-Zinn removes religion from meditation and makes it sensible and accessible. I have gone on to read several of his works and now practice relig…

I wanted to love JRuby (Ruby 1.9 emulation) but bugs like this: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JRUBY-5529 causes HTTPS calls to services like Stripe to fail. That bug has been op…

That service (reputations from SO, Github, LinkedIn etc) is available: http://strictlydev.com/