You can figure out your own certs or manage the cert request/verification cycle via Let's Encrypt...or you can let someone else do it for you. I recently joined a company that offers HTTPS out of the box for any domain you own: https://blog.backplane.io/how-to-get-https-80e1b28b878c
I'm biased, but I do think it's a pretty painless way to enable HTTPS for sites both big and small. No uploading of certs, no modifications to your web app are necessary, it just works.
I wish I had more systems knowledge (ie: better command prompt skills) and I wish I had spent more time learning about networks and ssh. Some of those concepts are really not that complicated but just _seemed_ impenetrable at the time.
> Knuth wrote his program in WEB, a literate programming system of his own devising that used Pascal as its programming language. His program used a clever, purpose-built data structure for keeping track of the words and frequency counts; and the article interleaved with it presented the program lucidly. McIlroy’s review started with an appreciation of Knuth’s presentation and the literate programming technique in general. He discussed the cleverness of the data structure and Knuth’s implementation, pointed out a bug or two, and made suggestions as to how the article could be improved.
> And then he calmly and clearly eviscerated the very foundation of Knuth’s program.
At Timehop we currently work with a single instance AWS Aurora (MySQL-ish) database with over 40TB of data (plus a read-only replica on a smaller instance). Some stats: 1.5MB/sec receive throughput, 10MB/sec transmit throughput, commit latency around 3-4ms (with very occasional spikes to 10-20ms), select & commit counts are about 300/s, and select latency hovers around 35ms (we do about a dozen unions per query though).
All in all it's the easiest relational database I've ever worked with in terms of stability, speed, and scalability. I know this sounds like an ad for Aurora, but I just really like it.
I'm curious, how does the replication work if the replica instance is smaller (I assume smaller in disk space)? Is is automatically removing some of the data from the replica based on a heuristic rule?
Bit of an aside, but why haven't you guys listened to your users yet? Based on all the negative feedback about the recent updates, what are you guys doing?
However, that code won't deal with other things like changing the port, having a built-in index, or having the server run for a discrete amount of files to serve.
However, the only thing we really know for sure, and for which there is a mountain of evidence, is that women as a group face significantly greater challenges in this industry than men do. That may filter for various traits in women such as greater levels of grit, but I'm going to wait until this particular survey is corroborated by further study before I buy into the idea that women and men in our industry are significantly differentiated by something like personal drive. I can believe it, but I wouldn't jump to that conclusion based on this evidence alone.
