jnankin

I'm writing some new API client libraries in a variety of languages (PHP, Java, Ruby, C#, JS, Python) for an API.

Is there a list of best practices or a good resource for doing this? Both in general, and language specific?

Here are somethings I'd expect to see in such a resource: - How to handle instantiation of the library (static functions with static API credentials vs new instances of the library with instance variables for API credentials) - How to pass binary files - Using required arguments for required parameters of an API operation vs a hash or dictionary - How to name function calls - How to structure code/classes in relation to the API's design - What good client libraries should return or throw as an exception ... and so on

If you're HIPAA compliant or PCI compliant you must run an intrusion detection system and anti virus software. What do you use to solve these requirements on Linux?

We'd like to switch to hosting our marketing site, blog, and documentation using Jekyll. We've used S3 for other projects to host Jekyll sites, but we'd really like to have HTTPS enabled for all connections.

This made me wonder: How does the world host static marketing sites (or company blogs and docs) that are cost effective, reliable, and secure?

Particularly, if you have fabric scripts that are responsible for running deploys etc, how do you distribute, store, and secure the credentials required to back these scripts and allow them to access servers and run builds?

I know of two so far:

- iCracked (http://www.themuse.com/jobs/icracked/full-stack-backend-developer)

- interstateapp (http://blog.interstateapp.com/post/10699086100/the-fuel-of-interstate-one-year-later)

I would like to set up a shared filesystem so that multiple EC2 machines in a cluster can share files. Requirements:

- Should be easy to secure

- Files should be encrypted at rest

- Relatively easy to install

Bonus:

- Failover and replication for HA

Currently we have an NFS mount on an EBS volume that is encrypted using cryptsetup

Say you have a product written in Ruby, Python, PHP etc. and you would like to distribute it as a self-hosted solution.

What are the best ways to go about doing this without having to worry about people ripping off your code?

I assume answers will fall into some of the following categories:

- compile/obfuscate code (i.e. cpython)

- submit product as a virtual image (like github enterprise)

- just don't care and rely on your bundled licenses

Each has their own up/down sides. Discuss. :)