Tips From a Former Niche Item Etsy Store

Etsy is a service aimed at providing a way for makers of handmade items to sell them online. [Bithead] closed up shop earlier this year and wrote up an interesting perspective on what did and didn’t work out. The main market for [Bithead]’s store was Star Wars cosplayers, because it …read more

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Etsy’s 2-year migration to the cloud brought flexibility to the online marketplace

Founded in 2005, Etsy was born before cloud infrastructure was even a thing. As the company expanded, it managed all of its operations in the same way startups did in those days — using private data centers. But a couple of years ago, the online marketplace for crafts and vintage items decided to modernize and […] Continue reading Etsy’s 2-year migration to the cloud brought flexibility to the online marketplace

Enterprise Security Weekly #29 – News

How to choose the right distributed ledger program, Ixia and K2 integrate IoT platforms, SyferLock announces multi-factor authentication integration, and is a new antivirus program really the next generation of security? Full Show Notes Visit http://se… Continue reading Enterprise Security Weekly #29 – News

Enterprise Security Weekly #29 – Zane Lackey, Signal Sciences

Zane Lackey is the Founder and Chief Security Officer of Signal Sciences. Prior to becoming a vendor, Zane was the Director of Security Engineering at Etsy and a Senior Security Consultant at iSEC Partners. Full Show Notes Visit http://securityweekly.c… Continue reading Enterprise Security Weekly #29 – Zane Lackey, Signal Sciences

Retrotechtacular: The Aerolux Light Corporation

The humble incandescent lightbulb is an invention just about anyone born in the 20th Century is more than familiar with. But it’s not the be all and end all of lighting technology – there are neon lights, compact fluorescent bulbs, and even LEDs are finally being adopted for interior lighting. But with the endless march forward, there are vintage throwbacks to the past – how many hipster cafes have you been to lately with great big industrial-looking filament bulbs hanging from the ceiling?

However, that’s not all history has to give us. These gas discharge bulbs from yesteryear are absolute …read more

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