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hackthe.computer 2015

On Monday, we wrapped up the final round of the 2015 hackthe.computer coding competition. We had 972 people sign in to…

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Jun 20, 2016

Technical Recruiting in the Flyover Zone

Good engineers like working on intellectually stimulating, ambitious technical problems…

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Jun 20, 2016

Recently we wrote about how we transliterated a large Python codebase to Go. In doing so we ended up porting or writing some useful things we had already written in Python or Python already had. We’ve also written some useful tools for understanding and debugging Go. We’ve decided to open source these…

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Jun 20, 2016

Go Space Monkey

Optimal performance has always been a top goal of Space Monkey’s product offering, and though we are making steady progress on this journey, we haven’t arrived yet. So we wanted to talk a bit about that and delve deeper into what’s been going on behind the scenes for the last few months. This post…

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Jun 20, 2016

Heartbleeding OpenSSL Checklist

So, you’re a company that uses SSL and just found out about the “Heartbleed OpenSSL bug” (if you are instead a Space Monkey customer and want to know more about how this affects you, please see this blog post).

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Jun 20, 2016

Stopping the Heartbleeding

You may have already heard about an important security vulnerability called Heartbleed (CVE-2014–0160) which…

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Jun 20, 2016

Making Backup Obsolete

Space Monkey has many ambitious goals. Among them: make backup obsolete.

What people are forced to do in order to keep their data safe today is insane. Think about it: you need to hit the ‘save’ button, but that button is a lie. It does not keep your data safe…

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Jun 20, 2016

The Price of the Cloud

Space Monkey just completed a very successful Kickstarter Campaign, raising almost $350K in just 30 days. With that…

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Jun 20, 2016

Sneak peek: Three Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Space Monkey

Last Spring, when we let the cat out of the bag about what we’d been up to at Space Monkey, folks started describing our vision as “BitTorrent meets Dropbox” or “The cloud on your desk.” These were clever…

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Jun 20, 2016

Cloud Price Wars

Near the end of November, Google announced a large price cut for their cloud storage service. Two days later, Amazon countered with a price drop of their own. Not to be outdone, Google announced yet another price cut the next day. Microsoft decided they wanted in on the action a week later.