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What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

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Rubygems used YAML to hold metadata about each gem submitted to it. An attacker was able to create a malicious gem, cause the Rubygems web application to evaluate the metadata contained in it, and thereby compromise the Rubygems server infrastructure. Patrick is the founder of Kalzumeus Software. Thanks for visiting!

Security 101
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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

Ive done this before using a structured comment added to each SQL statement, like this: /*entity customer://1234 */ SELECT name FROM customer WHERE id = 1234 At the expense of some additional parsing overhead in your data-access layer, you get additional metadata associated with every query in your application.

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Startup Resources

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.” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? s easier to use/develop with. Rovi : Need Metadata for music/movie/actors, etc.?