Interesting Snippets from 2014-07-31

• Bitly: Lessons Learned Building a Distributed System that Handles 6 Billion Clicks a Month - High Scalability -

  Have you ever wondered how bitly makes money? A URL shortener can’t be that hard to write, right? Sean O'Connor, Lead Application Developer at bitly, answers the how can bitly possibly make money question immediately in a talk he gave on bitly at the Bacon conference. Writing a URL shortner that works is easy, says Sean, writing one that scales and is highly available, is not so easy.

• jlund/streisand · GitHub

  Streisand sets up a new server running L2TP/IPsec, OpenSSH, OpenVPN, Shadowsocks, Stunnel, and a Tor bridge. It also generates custom configuration instructions for all of these services. At the end of the run you are given an HTML file with instructions that can be shared with friends, family members, and fellow activists.

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