On Monday, we wrapped up the final round of the 2015 hackthe.computer coding competition. We had 972 people sign in to…
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…
Good engineers like working on intellectually stimulating, ambitious technical problems…
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…
Space Monkey just completed a very successful Kickstarter Campaign, raising almost $350K in just 30 days. With that…
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…
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).
You may know this guy from Dancing with the Stars:
Or you may know him as Kathy Griffin’s boyfriend (but not anymore).
What you probably don’t know about Woz is that he invented Apple Computer. And how could you? It’s a secret. Shhhh.
Several major internet sites have had a hard time staying online lately. Yesterday, Twitter went down. This was due to an “infrastructural double whammy” — two data centers that operate in parallel for redundancy both failed. This was the second outage in about six weeks for…
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…
