Posts from May 2014

Willy and Markus Do Not Prove Market Manipulation

bitcoin mt. gox May 27, 2014 at 12:10 PM Emin Gün Sirer

Recent leaks of Mt. Gox trading history has caused people to claim that massive market manipulation was taking place. I argue that there is no evidence for this.

What Can An Earthquake Teach Us About Database Design

mysql rdbms limits May 24, 2014 at 01:04 PM Emin Gün Sirer

What can we learn from an earthquake about the weaknesses of our IT infrastructure?

Setup HyperDex on AWS in 10 Minutes with Juju

hyperdex aws juju May 22, 2014 at 10:25 AM Robert Escriva

Juju is the new system from the folks at Canonical for automating cloud infrastructure tasks. It enables you to easily build and maintain your infrastructure with convenient command-line and web interfaces. In this article, we take a look at how to deploy HyperDex on AWS using Juju.

My First Macaroon: A New Way to do Authorization

macaroons security authorization May 21, 2014 at 03:20 PM Robert Escriva

Macaroons provide a safer way to authenticate users than using raw cookies. In this article, we walk through how to get started with the macaroons library, and how to create and verify your first macaroon.