Konstantin Antselovich

At $WORK we were running a MySQL setup that required an unusually large number of concurrent connections.

Happy New 2026 everyone!

http://www.quora.com/How-should-startups-handle-performance-reviews/ great opinions on dreaded APRs

http://blog.idonethis.com/managers-write/

https://moderncrypto.org/mail-archive/messaging/2014/000780.html - how does antispam currently work at large email providers - how would widespread E2E crypto affect this - what are the options for moving things to the client (and pros, cons) - is this fe…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson's_paradox

https://istlsfastyet.com/ Published on Jul 24, 2014 “TLS has exactly one performance problem: not enough sites are using it.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000070.html A good old Joel article on why you shouldn’t not treat your engineers like pre-K kids.

https://securehomes.esat.kuleuven.be/~gacar/persistent/index.html

https://konstant1n.livejournal.com/10118.html Sullivan Ridge and Backbone Trail Loop ( Sullivan Ridge Fire road, Mulholland road, Fireroad 30 to The Hub, Backbone trail, J-Drop & back to Sullivan Ridge fire road ) My first GoPro cut!

http://www.slideshare.net/slidecomet/the-presenter-manifesto-8-distinctions-of-a-world-class-presenter

https://konstant1n.livejournal.com/9759.html At times I want to reach my home computer, so I had a dynamic DNS service that keeps a DNS record ( like myhomeip.dyndns.org) in sync with your home IP address that changes from time to time.

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http://graphics.wsj.com/PhonePlan/ very nice tool for comparing plans from different wireless providers

http://blog.risk.io/2013/08/stop-fixing-all-the-things-bsideslv/ Recent parer shows that it make sense to focus only on vulns that have ready exploits in metasploit and exploitdb

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/advisory/2876146 Recent security hole in wifi authentication – fix requires a roll-out of PKI (i.e. certificate-based auth ) for all devices .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRIME_(security_exploit) from http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/07/09/1455200/ It works like this.

http://weis2007.econinfosec.org/papers/29.pdf Old (2007 ) paper by Charlie Miller about trading of 0-day exploits

http://blog.level3.com/culture/software-quality-be-careful-what-you-measure/ Notes from level3 communications about what to measure (and what not) in software development

http://blog.level3.com/culture/software-quality-be-careful-what-you-measure/ Notes from level3 communications about what to measure (and what not) in software development

http://smartbear.com/SmartBear/media/pdfs/best-kept-secrets-of-peer-code-review.pdf Book on code review from Smartbear – a maker of software for code review

http://smartbear.com/SmartBear/media/pdfs/best-kept-secrets-of-peer-code-review.pdf Book on code review from Smartbear – a maker of software for code review

http://asterfax.sourceforge.net/SpanDSP.html SpanDSP provides the core functionallity within Asterisk for sending and recieving faxes. spandsp is a library which provides many of the DSP functions needed for telephony.

http://www.wikileaks-forum.com/index.php/topic,19310.0.html original PRISM docs from wikileaks

http://urbanairship.com/blog/2010/10/05/centralized-logging-using-rsyslog/ Great post from Urban Airship about centralize logging with rsyslog (contains important details on how to deal with multi-line messages from java stack )

http://www.daedtech.com/how-to-keep-your-best-programmers Interesting post [but too long to my taste] about what motivates software developers and how it affects their career choices. ( see also this RSA Animation http://www.youtube.com/watch?

http://www.npac.com/number-portability/how-lnp-works In short: when phone call is made, phone switch checks a database to see if the called number has a secondary phone number (caller LNR), if yes, that number is used to route the call.

http://lists.adiscon.net/pipermail/rsyslog/2011-September/028813.html example for centralize logging setup with rsyslog, taken from mailing list discussion

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http://www.aosabook.org/en/index.html so called AOSA book. " Architects look at thousands of buildings during their training, and study critiques of those buildings written by masters.

http://katemats.com/assessing-technical-risks-for-startups-new-tech-leader-series/ Good check list from Kate Matsudaira.

https://miter.mit.edu/the-unexotic-underclass/ Excellent essay, very eloquent.

https://konstant1n.livejournal.com/9143.html SQL Injection 101 – found on github ~75000 times ?!

http://www.sansay.com/sansay_products.htm SIP / H.232 SBC Product from Sensay (La Jolla, CA) , apparently used by Flowroute

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http://www.anchor.com.au/blog/2013/04/the-btrfs-backup-experiment/ Today we’re talking about our experience with btrfs, the next-gen Linux filesystem. btrfs has been maturing rapidly over the last few years and offers many compelling features for modern s…

https://github.com/richievos/remote_includes how assemble your pages from HTML partials on the client, front-end or CDN edge.

http://blog.hut8labs.com/coding-fast-and-slow.html software estimates from psychology and human behavior point of view

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/06/scaling-up-vs-scaling-out-hidden-costs.html blog post about scale up and scale out, and hidden costs introduced by administration licensing costs for proprietary software.

http://labs.spotify.com/2013/02/25/in-praise-of-boring-technology/ More often than not, the right tool for the job is piece of software that has been around for some time, with proven success.

http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/3/13/ironio-moved-from-ruby-to-go-28-servers-cut-and-colossal-clu.html sometimes language makes a difference ( i.e ruby is too low for a service stack )

http://bl.ocks.org/ricardobeat/raw/5343140/ Collection of great takes from Hacker News/YCombinator ppl.

http://bl.ocks.org/ricardobeat/raw/5343140/ Collection of great takes from Hacker News/YCombinator ppl.

http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~sergey/langsec/ The Language-theoretic approach (LANGSEC) regards the Internet insecurity epidemic as a consequence of ad hoc programming of input handling at all layers of network stacks, and in other kinds of software stacks.

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/book.html Security Engineering , by Ross Andreson.

https://superevr.com/blog/2013/dont-use-linksys-routers/ the firmware is so buggy/insecure, so getting passwd file is as easy as: POST /apply.cgi Host: 192.168.1.1 submit_button=Wireless_Basic&change;_action=gozila_cgi≠xt_page=/etc/passwd ====> root:x:0:0…

https://code.google.com/p/conemu-maximus5/ try this if you need a decent command line experience in windows

http://programmer.97things.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/Contributions_Appearing_in_the_Book 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know project, pearls of wisdom for programmers collected from leading practitioners – the link contains list of articles from O’rie…