For the kind of ransomware the encrypts your hard drive, yes. I have not come across the mongo ones, maybe they do, maybe they don't.

If it is possible to access your database (mongo, sql or otherwise) from outside of the computer (or trusted network) your webserver resides on, you've made a mistake. If you get this right, you don't really need to worry much about passwords on the database servers.

If you want to access them from somewhere else, typically you just ssh into your webserver or a machine within the trusted network, and forward the required ports from there. This is so common that most decent SQL and mongo clients have built in options for this.

Really, unless you have a Super Good Reason (and you probably don't) then the only ports you should be able to access from the outside of your webserver should be 22, 80, and 443

ok I'll look into that but that would make gui tools like robomongo/mongochef/studio 3t not work for prod right? Not that its a huge deal.

If you're waiting for an offer do you keep interviewing with other places?

Yes

Use SSH to port forward 27017 and whatever else it uses, and the GUI tools should work just fine when you connect to "localhost"

Yes up until you accept.

If you want to speed up the process let the company know you have other interviews lined up but will cancel them if they make you a good offer

You keep interviewing until you sign the offer.

If you really like the place, you can negotiate saying that you have other interviews lining up but if they can sweeten the offer, you can sign right away and cancel the other ones.

The best thing to do is to wait for other interviews to finish first. That way you will have more leverage.

Thanks!

I cancelled a few after receiving an offer. One we had discussed salary range already, and I had kind of pushed for it to be a bit higher. They told me a range that was the "highest" they could possibly go. When I cancelled the final interview because I was accepting a diff offer, they immediately offered even more. Wish I had the guts to actually bluff once in a while

Yeah, I'm pretty horrible at the money part mostly because 50 year old technology workers are an endangered species...

Can anyone recommend any good tutorials for learning React JS?

The official tutorial https://facebook.github.io/react/tutorial/tutorial.html has me on tilt.

Start identifying as gender fluid.

You can call yourself a bucket of cum, I'll stick to saying I bring gravitas to the position.

Depends on the tool. Robomongo is fine with this, there's a section in the config for the connection to give it your ssh credentials (ideally using an ssh key, not username/password). I have never used the other 2 you mentioned. Also, as mentioned, there is SSH forwarding.

What I have done is I wrote a simple python app that I use for everything. I start it like
myapp -u myuser -p mypassword -e environment
where environment is, for example, local, staging or production.

It has a bunch of windows you can open
* run any API endpoint
* run SQL queries
* run mongo queries
* view various logs
* edit feature flags
* interact with AWS (mostly I use this to kill bad instances)
and I guess I'll add anything else I use on a daily basis. It's not as "nice" as robomongo but it gets the job done fine and I don't have to fiddle with 9 apps.

It handles the SSH forwarding for you, using a python ssh library.

How did you cancel the interview? Did you already tell them that you already accepted an offer? I find it surprising that they would still offer you more when they knew you already signed. Expecting you to renege on the company.

Took me a second, but then I figured it out.

Its a standard move. He hasn't started and people renege in the hiring process at all sorts of times.

I hadnt accepted yet, I told them I was planning to the next day so we should cancel asap to ensure I dont waste any more of their time. They were fast approaching and one of my bottom choices so I cancelled them before accepting

I'm looking for someone to set up text/email notifications for when certain games start at certain casinos on Bravo app. PM if interested, thanks

I haven't been able to push to Heroku from git for like 7 hours now...I guess the API is down:

▸ Heroku API is temporarily unavailable.
▸ For more information, visit: https://status.heroku.com

when you run a web app hosted by Heroku, how do you set up a back up plan for when Heroku API goes down? Or are you just ****ed?

S3 was down. It took a lot of things with it including basically every us-east-1 aws service.

Should be interesting to hear what happened, that's not supposed to for sure. Any websites listing how much money a minute they're losing while it's down?

OmgGlutten, I realized I didn't finish my post and answer your actual question.

I'm not an expert on Heroku, basically we just use it for things that aren't important, are completley isolated from our product, and won't see anything close to significant load. So in our cases, when a major outage like this happens the things we have on Heroku aren't even close to the top of the list of things we care about.

In general, it feels like if your app is important enough that you're looking for resiliency in the face of a major outage like this - you shouldn't be using Heroku in the first place.

I haven't seen anything like this. I suspect anyone losing major money had bigger worries at the time.

Not everyone checks the other thread, so I decided to do the coding bootcamp.

Already having nightmares about former sales jobs and waking up feeling relieved!

Good luck!