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The Battle for the Open Web: From SOPA to Modern Digital Gatekeepers
Architectural and policy deep dive into the open web: the SOPA/OPEN Act battles, the end-to-end principle, cor…
How to configure Postfix on Ubuntu 10.04
First and foremost I should advise that this article explains how to setup Virtual Domains that are not connec…
Stop SOPA: DNS Tampering, Digital Rights & The Battle for Internet Freedom
Examine the historical 2012 SOPA fight: technical flaws of DNS censorship, threats to DMCA 512 safe harbors, a…
Cloud Economics vs. Bare-Metal Infrastructure: Lessons from 15 Years of DevOps & Private Clusters
Comprehensive architectural and financial analysis of public cloud versus bare-metal infrastructure: AWS EC2 e…
Moe Mecto & Early Cloud Architecture: Deploying to AWS EC2 in 2011
Engineering retrospective on deploying Russian community platform Moe Mecto to AWS EC2 in 2011: Xen virtualiza…
Demystifying AWS EC2 Reserved Instances: Billing Discounts vs Compute Provisioning & Cost Optimization
Retrospective and architectural runbook on AWS EC2 Reserved Instances: The difference between financial billin…
Enterprise Search Engine Architecture: Yahoo BOSS vs. Apache Lucene, Solr & Elasticsearch
Architectural comparison of Yahoo BOSS and Apache Lucene: inverted index internals, lexical tokenization, BM25…
Composite Primary Keys in Relational ORMs: Zend_Db_Table, Active Record & Doctrine 2
Architectural guide to composite primary keys in relational ORMs: Zend_Db_Table array definitions, Active Reco…
California Law Prohibits Amazon Affiliate Program!?
Summary: Due to a new California state tax law signed by Governor Jerry Brown on June 29, 2011, Amazon has ter…
Affiliate Attribution Architecture: S2S Postbacks, Cookie Deprecation & Network Compliance
Engineering analysis of affiliate attribution architecture: exploring client-side 1x1 tracking pixels, network…
Oracle v. Google & The Battle for APIs: Fair Use, Dalvik & Open Source
Historic technical and legal analysis of Oracle v. Google: declaring code vs implementing code, Dalvik VM regi…
eBay's Acquisition of Magento: An Architectural Retrospective on the Evolution of Enterprise eCommerce
An in-depth architectural retrospective on eBay's acquisition of Magento, analyzing the transition from LAMP/E…