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Collection of interesting links to read. Mostly tech.

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9 Ways to make Dropbox more Secure and Safer to Use

Dropbox stores a vast amount of data for over half a billion people globally. Should you trust it with your data and how can you make it more secure?

Dropbox can decrypt your data

Use an external Encryption to encrpyt using "zero knowledge" strategy

Review connected third party apps

Review connected sessions

Enable 2 Factor Authentication

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I will be writing about my journey in the cloud

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The simplest way is to just expose the Docker socket to your CI container, by bind-mounting it with the -v flag.

Simply put, when you start your CI container (Jenkins or other), instead of hacking something together with Docker-in-Docker, start it with:

docker run -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock ... Now this container will have access to the Docker socket, and will therefore be able to start containers. Except that instead of starting “child” containers, it will start “sibling” containers.

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Save yourself a lot of pain (and money) by choosing your AWS Region wisely

Choosing an AWS region is not a trivial decision. There are many variables that affect the price, performance and availability of your application as well as the AWS services you can use. If you choose the wrong region you could end up paying more than double and waiting several months before you can take advantage of new products and features.

us-east-1 - North Virginia tops for feature set and cost

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Snappy and Flatpak are new packaging standards that are coming to Linux. They claim to solve, current problems in packaging standards like rpm and deb.

Snappy packages library dependencies along with the application, so that it doesn't conflict with library version dependency of another application. This is a good idea, but is not entirely cross platfrom for now.

Snappy is a project from Canonical. Flatpak is by a RedHat employee.

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Amazon Machine Images (AWS AMI) offers two types of virtualization: Paravirtual (PV) and Hardware Virtual Machine (HVM). Each offers its own advantages.

AWS AMI uses Xen hypervisor on bare metal.

Xen offers two options:

hvm (hardware virtual machine)

pv (paravirtualisation)

HVMs can use hardware extensions which provide very fast access to underlying hardware on the host system

With Paravirtualization, the guest operating system requires some modification before everything can work. These modifications allow the hypervisor to export a modified version of the underlying hardware to the VMs, allowing them near-native performance.

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How To Compile Nginx from Source on a CentOS 6.4 x64 VPS | DigitalOcean

Read how to compile Nginx from source on a CentOS 6.4 x64 VPS.

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Slick 3 - "Reactive Slick" with asynchronous queries

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Slick, Typesafe's database query and access library for Scala, now supports the Reactive Streams API in the just released version 3.0. This enables developers to query their databases asynchronously and non-blocking. InfoQ talked to Slich Tech-Lead Stefan Zeiger to learn more about the new features and what they've planned for the future.

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Software engineers need their own Hippocratic Oath

Designers and engineers of widely used consumer products have far more impact in the world than they might think.

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By Bjarne Stroustrup

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By Bjarne Stroustrup

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