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Save yourself from a disaster #4: Redundancy of Storage

This is the fourth part of the series Save yourself from a disaster: Redundancy on a budget. How can we make sure our second most important asset is safely secured in case of a disaster? We could mainly 2 things: Distributed Storage Backups…

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Save yourself from a disaster #3: Redundancy of Database

This is the third part of the series Save yourself from a disaster: Redundancy on a budget. How can we make sure our most important asset (which is the DB) is safely secured in case of a disaster? We could do mainly 2 things (and you better do both of them): Backups Redundancy…

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Save yourself from a disaster #2: Secure the Storage

This is the second part of the series Save yourself from a disaster: Redundancy on a budget. How can we make sure our second most important asset is safely secured in case of a disaster? We could mainly 2 things: Distributed Storage Backups…

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Save yourself from a disaster #1: Secure the Database

This is the first part of the series Save yourself from a disaster: Redundancy on a budget. How can we make sure our most important asset (which is the DB) is safely secured in case of a disaster? We could do mainly 2 things (and you better do both of them): Backups Redundancy…

Web

Save yourself from a disaster: Redundancy on a budget

What can we learn from the latest major cloud incident (ie. burning OVH datacenter)? Do not put all your eggs in one basket! The only certain thing is that it’s not a matter of IF there’ll be a disaster but rather WHEN, so better be not caught off guard. I’m running a bunch of very small websites (with very simple…

Web

Bye-bye LastPass, Welcome KeePass(X)

LastPass has recently decided to limit their free account to allow only 1 active device (computer or mobile) per account. In the lights of this debatable decision, many people have decided to move away from it.…

Mixed

Past Year Review (2020)

The end of the year has come, so it’s time to look back and sum up what has happened and what has been achieved. Let’s say that everyone would like to forget 2020, what a year! 2021, let’s jump into the unknown. Following my previous New Year’s Resolution, I’ve continued with the same kind of schedule and process, with some…

Time Management

Learning Touch Typing

I’ve been typing with two fingers for over 20 years and didn’t bother much about my typing skills. In fact, I was a pretty average typist with a rate of ~39wpm with pretty good accuracy of 96%, at least it was fine by me……

Skills

Why I Stepped Down as CTO

I left Skuola.net as CTO to join Radical (formerly BAGBNB) as Engineer. TL;DR I jumped boat, changed role, changed tech stack, I’m enjoying a bit more of tranquillity, I have a bit more family time, I got my (dev) passion back! Way to go folks 😎 Long Story I’m just sharing some reasons for this decision and few insights on…

Career

Tech Challenge Explained

The tech challenged I’ve used in Skuola.net was designed in order to be submitted by any developer, regardless the experience level or the programming language. So the easiest choice was to do an algorithm test, and amongst the infinite list of test you can find online, I’ve picked one based on anagrams. Another self-imposed constraint was about simplicity, no-one should’ve…

Career