Twitter’s Answers architecture
Twitter’s mobile-device analytics service architecture, with Kafka and Storm in full Lambda-Architecture mode
(tags: twitter lambda-architecture storm kafka architecture)
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The argument for the “monorepo” — ie. lots of projects in a single Git repo. There’s lots more discussion pro/con on twitter, e.g.: https://twitter.com/search?q=monorepo&src=typd , https://twitter.com/hivetheory/timelines/449385567982067713
(tags: monorepo git repository dependencies libraries coding)
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Poor hardware imaging practices, basically:
It looks like all devices with the fingerprint are Dropbear SSH instances that have been deployed by Telefonica de Espana. It appears that some of their networking equipment comes setup with SSH by default, and the manufacturer decided to re-use the same operating system image across all devices.
FreeBSD breaks its kernel RNG for 4 months
If you are running a current kernel r273872 or later, please upgrade your kernel to r278907 or later immediately and regenerate keys. I discovered an issue where the new framework code was not calling randomdev_init_reader, which means that read_random(9) was not returning good random data. This means most/all keys generated may be predictable and must be regenerated.
What every programmer should know about solid-state drives
Lots of good advice here for dealing with SSDs
Azul Zing on Ubuntu on AWS Marketplace
hmmm, very interesting — the super-low-latency Zing JVM is available as a commercial EC2 instance type, at costs less than the EC2 instance price
Crowdsourcing isn’t broken — Backchannel — Medium
‘A great compendium by @harper of techniques for handling trolls and griefers in online communities’, via kragen
(tags: via:kragen antispam filtering trolls community crowdsourcing threadless harper griefers abuse tips)
South Korea faces $1bn bill after hackers raid national ID database • The Register
Simon McGarr says: ‘80% of S.Korea’s population have had their ID number stolen, crimewave ongoing. >> Turns out a pot of honey is sweet’
(tags: fail south-korea korea security id-cards ssn id-numbers privacy)