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Wat, how have I never heard of this! Very cool. Do you have any insights you could share on your own setup, what worked well and what didn't? Are you just storing information in plaintext, or do you use some visualization libraries to make consuming the information a bit easier as well? Very curious about your setup.

I recently used the AI feature in n8n to write a code node to parse some data, which worked really well. Feels more like LLMs are enhancing low-code solutions.

Also, I see great value in not having to take care of the runtime itself. Sure, I can write a python script that does what I want much quicker and more effectively with claude code, but there is also a bunch of work to get it to run, restart, log, alert, auth…

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You mean rack mounts for humans?

For us, introducing a simple device and location validation system (track which users log in with which devices and from where), combined with breached password detection from HIBP, which both can trigger an email validation code flow, practically solved the credential stuffing issues we had immediately.

For the user it's kind of a a soft MFA via email where they don't have to enable it, but also don't always get the challenge.

Astonishingly, we had barely any complaints about the system via customer care and also didn't notice a drop in (valid) logins or conversion rates.

Thats what we did as well, via wolfram alpha. I.e. we were too lazy to look up everything ourselves and just asked it straight up how long of a roundtrip it would be between two destinations via fiber. We checked one result and it was spot on. This was six years ago tho

It would be really cool if it didn't just show the ping, but how much worse it is compared to the theoretical optimum (speed of light in fiber optic medium, which I believe is about 30% slower than c).

I raise this because I've been in multiple system architecture meetings where people were complaining about latency between data centers, only to later realize that it was pretty close to what is theoretically possible in the first place.

I recommend this book as well (absolute beginner here). Learned to see the world a bit differently because of it.

Also, if for example the SaaS you’re running sends a lot of system emails that really shouldn’t end up in spam filters, you can’t afford to let things like marketing campaigns negatively influence your domain’s spam score.

Easier and safer to have separate domains.

Having seen the parts tracking system of a european helicopter manufacturer: They had the most insanely detailed parts tracking system (including certa for every part and sub-assembly and supplier) I have ever seen. I would be surprised if it takes them a lot of effort to figure out which planes are affected.

Interesting that this is enough evidence to the contrary for you. To me that looks more like what they say, not what they do, and is a well crafted smoke screen. They still seem to be acting as if they’re purely interested in extracting maximum shareholder value, at the expense of the public.