Discussing my Netdata experience - User Panel discussion! | Netdata Office Hours #18

I was invited by Netdata to be part of their User Panel discussion and to share my experiences with Netdata.

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How often do you backup your social profiles?

I am doing it at least once a year. As a friendly reminder, backup your data that is stored on cloud providers. They are not accountable if the data is lost and your account can be terminated at any time. Have you read the terms and conditions? The big platforms have the option to ask […]

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The Internet and .txt files in the era of AI, ML and data scrapping

For the non developers, the web industry is using .txt files at the root of a domain to provide guidance for different kind of bots wandering on the Internet and indexing/scrapping data. The bots can ignore the instructions, declare a different User-Agent or other kind of evasion methods. robots.txt - it instructs crawlers on which […]

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90% decrease in transactional emails cost – going to AWS SES

Whan I am developing something I am more focused on the engineering behind and not on setting up basic things. I just use any available system and I will deal with the optimization at a later stage. This was the case also for rotrafic.xyz, it uses a double opt-in for registration so I used Sendingblue […]

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About server monitoring (with Netdata) as a way to detect malicious activities, a real case of a compromised domain and decoding backdoor payloads

The backdoor was planted in /wp-includes/ and the filename started with a dot in an attempt to hide the file .query.php

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Follow-up Facebook Shops and some extra thoughts about social media

Today my Facebook news-feed was like in the picture below, what I wrote more than a year ago actually happened My opinion about Facebook Shops: Facebook Shops will only dilute even more the news feed. This reveals 2 issues, on both sides of the system: Facebook still does whatever it wants to do. As there is no […]

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Ransomware - about the attack, protection methods and best practices

The methods to counteract this type of attack presuppose the existence of backup and disaster recovery systems that are well established and functional.

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How much time does it take the update of statistics from Search Console?

Almost one month. I did an experiment. Having some pages on a well indexed domain with multiple daily visits from GoogleBot. Initially with a red CLS so the pages were "poor URL", let it stabilize, then modified the pages to orange CLS so the pages went to "URLs need improvement" Update done on 27.04.2021 was visible in Search Console on 17-18.05.2021. I […]

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Prediction, innovation - personalized medicine

These terms will define the medicine of the future. At the moment, we most often associate the prediction with the weather and the horoscope. Innovation with mobile devices and personalization probably with car stickers or writing on a T-shirt. But these terms, taken together, will change classical medicine with new equipment into a personalized medicine […]

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