Weekly Digest #77

Articles

New graduate EU offers — is It possible to negotiate?

Journey of EU MLE offers and the negotiation process

Should you use Let’s Encrypt for internal hostnames?

• it aids reconnaissance for attackers. Having a “map” of your internal infrastructure is useful
• it might expose some vulnerabilities — depending on how you name things
• there’s the potential for espionage. Do you want your competitors knowing that you’ve got olympics-campaign.staging.example.com?
• Seems private CA is the only solution

How we handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400

High cache rate + finding and use cheaper service provider

Tutorials

Explain the First 10 Lines of Twitter’s Source Code to Me

Five Tips For a Healthier Postgres Database in the New Year

• Set a statement timeout

ALTER DATABASE mydatabase SET statement_timeout = '60s';

• Ensure you have query tracking