Monthly Archives: December 2016

Samsung have a very ethical approach to the Galaxy Note 7 Phones End of Life

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When you are a company forcing undue change on everyone, it can be perceived as rather overzealous, even if it was meant to occur with the right intentions. This however, is a very reasonable decision based on rational consideration. Samsung are very aware of the real world consequences that exist and have made a very ethically consumer friendly decision. In a scenario where many companies are able to deploy patches through their software updates to disable device functionality, this is one of the situations where their actions are very justified and very reasonable. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/09/galaxy-note-7-samsung-software-update

Linux Academy

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This group has been a bastion of resources and industry grade training for myself and many of my colleges. This is from their quick training catalogue, Amazon Web Services.

Deploying MariaDB Or MySQL On VPC EC2 From Scratch With Replication
https://linuxacademy.com/cp/modules/view/id/49

MariaDB Enterprise Cluser

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We want to heavily emphasize that depending on your circumstances, you may choose to undertake replication with master and slave servers as per your own requirements, if we can offer any advice, it would be to look at a variety of resources to get a sense of different approaches and strategies.

https://mariadb.com/resources/blog/setting-mariadb-enterprise-cluster-part-1-how-set-virtual-machine-template

MariaDB Versus MySQL

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https://seravo.fi/2015/10-reasons-to-migrate-to-mariadb-if-still-using-mysql

https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-vs-mysql-features

For the most part we run our database servers using Maria DB on Debian 8, we opt to access them using an external editor or access via command line. As many in the industry will tell you, sometimes running phpmyadmin and other php based utilities server-side on database servers in a production environment can leave you inevitability vulnerable to exploits.

Enforcing HTTPS and locking down the .htaccess file can help, but many suggest you choose to leave your MariaDB/MySQL server not running a web-server back end on top and administrating your database(s) with either command line or management programs that can connect remotely.

There’s industry best practice, there’s your best practice and then there’s questionable practice.
Just because it’s easy and convenient, doesn’t mean you won’t risk compromising sensitive information. You have an ethical obligation to do what is in the best interests of your users, your customers, your administrators and the rest of us the look to you to set a high standard by which we should try to maintain.