…passwords on Solaris, fixes a bug in Resource.const defined?, and adds SSL root certificates to the Omnibus packages.
Ranjib Dey added support for Google Cloud Engine Linux ( GCEL), Google's Ubuntu derivative. Thanks Ranjib! You're this releases MVP! In addition to building out more cloud support, Ranjib has been a great addition to the community, helping many others with Chef and Chef testing. Lately he's been working on chef-stage which provides …
innobackupex could crash when taking the 5.6 backup due to linking the wrong SSL library. Bug fixed # 1168540 .
Percona XtraBackup would crash when preparing the 5.6 backup with partitioned tables. Bug fixed # 1169169 .
Tables that were dropped between taking a full backup and an incremental one were present in the full backup directory, and were not removed when incremental backups has been merged. Fixed by removing files corresponding to tables that are missing …
…that Galera/Percona XtraDB ( PXC) replication can be encrypted via SSL for secure transfer of your replicated data. Setting this up is actually quite easy to do and probably will look familiar to a lot of people.
Setting up SSL and Galera
Create and propagate a single key/cert pair
First, we create a private key/cert pair: [root@node1 ssl]# openssl req -new -x509 -days 365000 -nodes -keyout key.pem -out cert.pem Generating a 2048 bit RSA private key ..............+++ ................................................................+++ …
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…we saw in the example above, the combination of a DNS lookup, the TCP and SSL handshakes, and propagation times for the request add up to 370 ms. We're 50% over budget, and we still haven't factored in the server processing time!
To most users and even web-developers, the DNS, TCP, and SSL delays are entirely transparent and are negotiated at network layers to which few of us descend or think about. And yet, each of these steps is critical to the overall user experience, …
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I hate dealing with server mysteries.
Squash - Online bug trackers with some interesting new capabilities.
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Thredis - Threaded fork of redis.
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I I'd like to provide an overview of my process for improving the performance of a Ruby on Rails application, leaving the specific changes to other, more detailed posts.
The timeline at the top shows a basic view of what happens when the user clicks on a link to get a page from your site. There are three main pieces, the Connection - DNS lookup, setting up a connection to the server, SSL negotiation. The next part is your Ruby on Rails code that processes the request and generates …
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…important to note that SPDY does not require SSL, but in practice, SSL is a pragmatic choice to get to a working solution.
Next Protocol Negotiation ( NPN)
But how does the client and server know to use SPDY once the SSL tunnel is opened? This is where Next Protocol Negotiation ( NPN) enters the picture. NPN is an SSL extension which allows the client and the server to negotiate the application protocol as part of the SSL handshake .
NPN eliminates the …
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This morning we released the latest version of our Python agent ( 1.6.0.13). The release includes:
* When reporting web application performance data against multiple applications in the New Relic UI at the same time, any end user metric data will be reported against all applications.
* The environment variable ‘ NEW RELIC SSL' can be set to enable use of a SSL connection when reporting data to our data collector.
* Added instrumentation for tracking database queries …
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With Orchestra's SSL support, you can attach a certificate to an elastic app in a matter of minutes. And in addition to enjoying industry standard encryption, your app will auto-heal and auto-scale as usual. Deploying secure PHP apps to the cloud has never been easier.
To add an SSL certificate, simply head to the Addons section, and enable the SSL addon. Navigate to Manage Addon , and select the relevant application. From here, you can enter the certificate details. …
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…SSL Endpoint's GA status, we're consolidating and simplifying our SSL product lineup by deprecating all of the older SSL add-ons: SNI, Hostname SSL, and IP SSL. SSL Endpoint is easier to use, more robust, faster to provision, and offers more features (such as certificate rollback and client IP address as an HTTP header ).
Beginning June 18, 2012, these other SSL add-ons will no longer be provisionable via heroku addons:add . Applications that …
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