The causation over the Azure data centre outage leaves more questions than answers

The September 2018 Azure data centre outage leaves more questions than answers. Microsoft generically sums it up as a cooling issue triggered by lightning storms. In this neck of the savannah we have lightning storms that are the trademark signature weather of the Highveld. We live at an elevation of 1.5 km. My house is the highest one in our burrow and the advertising sign on William Nicol Drive about 200m from my house is regularly klapped by lightning. We are basically immune to the earth shattering sound of thunder and lightning.

Read the article over at LinkedIn here.

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easywall - Web interface for easy use of the IPTables firewall on Linux systems written in Python3.

Firewalls are becoming increasingly important in today’s world. Hackers and automated scripts are constantly trying to invade your system and use it for Bitcoin mining, botnets or other things. To prevent these attacks, you can use a firewall on your system. IPTables is the strongest firewall in Linux because it can filter packets in the kernel before they reach the application. Using IPTables is not very easy for Linux beginners. We have created easywall - the simple IPTables web interface . The focus of the software is on easy installation and use. Access this neat software over on github: easywall

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When building a DDoS mitigation service it’s incredibly tempting to think that the solution is scrubbing centers or scrubbing servers. I, too, thought that was a good idea in the beginning, but experience has shown that there are serious pitfalls to this approach. Read the post of at Cloudflare's blog: N o Scrubs: The Architecture That Made Unmetered Mitigation Possible

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