Monthly Archives: December 2019

Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems

Posted on December 20, 2019 by bitcollector

If you support systems @ scale than you must read the Google SRE book!  Do yourself and your team a favor by making sure you don’t repeat the mistakes in this book! This should be required reading for all managers … Continue reading →

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Delegated Credentials: Improving the security of TLS certificates

Posted on December 5, 2019 by bitcollector

This is worthy of a share if you are interested in TLS. Facebook, Cloudflare, and Mozilla are working together with the ITEF to develop a new protocol for handling the private keys for SSL certs. Facebook Engineering gives a great … Continue reading →

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Tutanota: Secure email, calendar and contact list

Posted on December 2, 2019 by bitcollector

Today I upgraded my email provider to Tutanota. They provide encrypted email hosted on servers in Germany. In addition to the encrypted inbox you can easily send end to end encrypted emails with users of other services like Gmail. Fellow … Continue reading →

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