Russ Garrett

russ.garrett.co.uk

By day, I'm a generalist software developer, systems architect, and operations engineer . I've built and maintained infrastructure for the likes of Last.fm , Smarkets , and IRCCloud .

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Datacenter Security: A Cautionary Tale from Last.fm

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Last.fm has presence in three datacenters in the London area - this is currently more because of necessity than redundancy; datacenter space is at a real premium in the UK and we can’t fulfill our power growth needs at just one site. We operate our own 20 gigabit fibre ring between these, which means we can basically…