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To be honest, with Azure Devops platforms, web app instances, containers and deployment slots, its almost bulletproof once you spend the time to get it originally configured. Same …

Deciding to sell this on the darknet is a life changing decision, white to black overnight and imagine not really something most would contemplate. Payment in BTC probably from an …

The newer generation smart meters operate on their own network, so that its critical and separate infrastructure so this won't happen again in the future. Also you have to be prett…

Without knowing the problem or context, I will take this on the basis of a "coding problem" where I may be tasked to create a piece of software/code/webapp to solve the needs. I ta…

The only certainty in tech, is that there will always be some tool/software package that looks to solve an already established solution with a new approach, only time will tell if …

That's a great read, many people get burned out. Have spoken to a few people who left the industry to do something else, most of them came back a few never did. The grass isn't alw…

I have been using chroot since approx 04 when I found it during my first Gentoo install, what docker did for me was make it so much easier to deploy various environments, due to ho…

Yea, I have tried OpenBSD a few times, but sadly I just don't have enough time to invest in my OS to get the most out of it. I use my machines until they fail, then replace them wi…

As someone who has used FreeBSD exclusively on bare-metal corporate production servers for the last 10 years, I still wouldn't use it on desktops/workstations. It's built as a serv…

So for some reason I am just discovering borg (been an rsync.net customer since 2014), currently all my data is GPG encrypted on the client side, so database dumps, files and serve…

I'm sorry, if you cannot see the benefits to running programs inside a container, then you have been reading the wrong article. I have been using FreeBSD jails for years, and now o…

In current times if a site was expecting high load or large amounts of traffic, it would be a bad idea NOT to have it behind a well configured load balancer and tested to a scale b…

Use a whiteboard/pen paper with a webcam, as if you two were in the same room. Just because we have every productivity application available to us, it doesn't mean we have to use t…

The correct way todo this is setup a load balancer, then use route 53 to manage the dns, set the root domain to your load balancer I'D then map the www cname to the root domain, th…

When you stat answering more questions on irc and stackoverflow than you ask about complicated areas. Building basic sites ans blogs is easy, but say someone asked you to read data…