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 feasible for email? - How do things change when moving from email to other sorts of async messaging (e.g. text messaging) or new protocols - i.e. are there unique aspects of existing email protocols, or are these general problems? // I worked at Google for about 7.5 years. For about 4.5 of those I worked on the Gmail abuse team, which is very tightly linked with the spam team (they use the same software, share the same on-call rotations etc). // ...
Is TLS Fast Yet?
https://istlsfastyet.com/ Published on Jul 24, 2014 “TLS has exactly one performance problem: not enough sites are using it. Everything else can and will be optimized. A hands on look at how to achieve 1-RTT handshakes, eliminate validation latency, and more.” Slides: bit.ly/fastTLS by Ilya Grigorik ( @ google) . See the bottom of the page on Nginx configs on how to improve TLS performance
Incentive Pay Considered Harmful - Joel on Software
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.
The Web never forgets: Persistent tracking mechanisms in the wild
https://securehomes.esat.kuleuven.be/~gacar/persistent/index.html
Software Quality - Be Careful What You Measure - Beyond Bandwidth
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
[SmartBear software] Best Kept Secrets of Peer Code Review (.pdf)
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
HN's favorite tech talks
http://bl.ocks.org/ricardobeat/raw/5343140/ Collection of great takes from Hacker News/YCombinator ppl. Full discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5511466
Developer Productivity Report 2012: Tools, Tech, Devs and Data | zeroturnaround.com
http://zeroturnaround.com/blog/developer-productivity-report-2012-java-tools-tech-devs-and-data/ We’re not much for fanfare here at ZeroTurnaround, but this is our most ambitious report that we’ve ever created. This year, over 1800 respondents shared their take on “the developer life” with us, with 1100 Java-focused surveys completed.
How InnoDB performs a checkpoint at Xaprb [by Baron Schwartz {of Perconna, MySQL vendor }
http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2011/01/29/how-innodb-performs-a-checkpoint/ An article about MySQL InnoDB checkpoint-ing mechanism written by Perconna folks. Read comments as well, several PostgreSQL core committers have participated in the discussion. “InnoDB’s checkpoint algorithm is not well documented. It is too complex to explain in even a long blog post, because to understand checkpoints, you need to understand a lot of other things that InnoDB does. I hope that explaining how InnoDB does checkpoints in high-level terms, with simplifications, will be helpful. A lot of the simplifications are because I do not want to explain the complexities of how the simple rules can be tweaked for optimization purposes, while not violating the ACID guarantees they enforce.” ...
How InnoDB handles REDO logging - MySQL Performance Blog [by Ewen Fortune]
http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2011/02/03/how-innodb-handles-redo-logging/ How MySQL InnoDB implements transaction log, aka REDO (Oracle), aka WAL (PostgreSQL)