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Re: Show HN: Wallarm – Protect your web apps or APIs with fast Nginx-based instances

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Wallarm looks like a fairly good WAF, and focused on developers / DevOps. We (https://www.tinfoilsecurity.com) have the same focus, but are focused on helping you find and fix the vulnerabilities rather than cloaking them / trying to catch them being exploited in real-time.

"Detect anomalies and block attacks with no latency" seems hard to believe - minimal latency, maybe, but none?

On the other hand, good luck to Wallarm - there need to be better WAFs out there.

Re: Show HN: Wallarm – Protect your web apps or APIs with fast Nginx-based instances

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I have never heard someone pronounce nginx "n-jinks" before like they did in their video. It's a minor thing, but it hurts their credibility in my eyes.

I have heard this many times, mostly from non-native English people. I don't see any problem with that. Also we tend to say 'oh-ess-eks'. :D

You mean for OS X? What other way is there to pronounce it?

Re: Show HN: Wallarm – Protect your web apps or APIs with fast Nginx-based instances

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post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have heard this many times, mostly from non-native English people. I don't see any problem with that. Also we tend to say 'oh-ess-eks'. :D

You mean for OS X? What other way is there to pronounce it?

"Oh, s-10?"

Re: Show HN: Wallarm – Protect your web apps or APIs with fast Nginx-based instances

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post #11

Wallarm looks like a fairly good WAF, and focused on developers / DevOps. We ( https://www.tinfoilsecurity.com ) have the same focus, but are focused on helping you find and fix the vulnerabilities rather than cloaking them / trying to catch them being exploited in real-time. "Detect anomalies and block attacks with no latency" seems hard to believe - minimal latency, maybe, but none? On the other hand, good luck to…

http://modsecurity.org/ is an open source option with free and commercial rules. I remember reading that CloudFlare used ModSecurity at one point and then moved to their own WAF.

Re: Show HN: Wallarm – Protect your web apps or APIs with fast Nginx-based instances

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I have never heard someone pronounce nginx "n-jinks" before like they did in their video. It's a minor thing, but it hurts their credibility in my eyes.

To be fair, this is due to the horrible branding on NginX's part. Nearly every non-technical person I know has pronounced it njinks, because using 'n' phonetically as 'en' is not exactly commonplace.

Watching our PM get to their name in a story and pause for a few seconds and just say "that word" instead should give you some idea of how counter-intuitive it is.

You don't have to work hard to parse good branding.

Re: Show HN: Wallarm – Protect your web apps or APIs with fast Nginx-based instances

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post #16

MVP it may be, but taking pictures of your screen with a camera creates horrible artifacts. Why not use screenshots for your banner images ?

Yeah - the effect might have been gorgeous in the mockup but the moire pattern did not survive the JPEG compression.

Re: Show HN: Wallarm – Protect your web apps or APIs with fast Nginx-based instances

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post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have heard this many times, mostly from non-native English people. I don't see any problem with that. Also we tend to say 'oh-ess-eks'. :D

You mean for OS X? What other way is there to pronounce it?

Even when I worked for AppleCare many of us still said it that way. Apple had very strict guidelines and we could get in trouble if we said it in any way but "OS 10" but it's a very, very hard habit to break.
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