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ktheoryon ECS and Vault: Shhhhh I have a secret

(Kickstarter staff here.)

We did. Those are great projects.

Personally, I see Vault having a lot of community momentum behind it; and it can easily solve some complicated security infrastructure beyond storing secrets (the PKI, MySQL & ssh secret backends are particularly compelling).

ktheoryon Kickstarter passes $1B in pledges

Keep in mind that correlation is not causation. :-) (disclaimer: I work at kickstarter)

ktheoryon Rack Attack: Protection from abusive clients

Yeah, iptables works great for that.

I also like nginx's limit_zone module. You can put limit_zone in the proxy stanza, and only throttle dynamic requests without throttling access to fast static files.

We often use Rack::Attack to throttle particular HTTP paths differently. Say, the homepage isn't throttled, but the login action is. That layer 7 knowledge is Rack::Attack's main advantage.

As I say in the README, Rack::Attack is complementary to iptables and the limit_zone module.

ktheoryon Maybe Large Companies are Fundamentally Flawed

Companies exist in large part to avoid transaction costs of using several autonomous market agents (the thesis of _The Nature of the Firm_ http://www.cerna.ensmp.fr/Enseignement/CoursEcoIndus/Support... by Ronald Coase, 1937)

Vertically integrated companies can avoid more transactions costs, making them more valuable.

The author doesn't seem to appreciate why large, vertically integrated companies are fundamentally valuable.

ktheoryon Ask YC: Content Delivery Networks

I've had good experience with Panther Express: http://pantherexpress.com/

ktheoryon Poll: Is this trolling?

It's inane.

ktheoryon Ask YC: What do you use for Project Management?

We've had a lot of success with Trac. Over the past 18 months, we've tweaked our milestones/iteration process several times, and each time we've found Trac suited to our style.