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So far, my https deployments have commonly involved a naive lockdown of the entire site with https and provide an http-to-https redirect on the web server. I now plan to have a single ASP.NET MVC site (on the cloud) that will contain both http and https pages. So, the site will have 2 conceptual (not physical) zones providing for both secure and non-secure requests. Configuration-wise, I have set up input ports for both 80 and 443 and the site accepts both requests. Is there any way I can flip protocol to https for any call that goes to an action that belongs in the secure zone? For instance,

So I just started messing around with Google BigQuery about 10 minutes ago, and I was wondering if anyone is aware of the underlying architecture that they're using to store the data? For example, is this just the next generation of their own BigTable infrastructure? Also, is it clear what sorts of strategies they're using for indexes, index rebuilds, etc? I'm just trying to analyze whether this is mature enough at this point where you can be 100% sure of what's going on with your data end-to-end, or is there a bit of a black box area where "things just work"? There are no indexes... every

I want to write a Python script that will read and write files from s3 using their url's, eg:'s3:/mybucket/file'. It would need to run locally and in the cloud without any code changes. Is there a way to do this? Edit: There are some good suggestions here but what I really want is something that allows me to do this: myfile = open("s3://mybucket/file", "r") and then use that file object like any other file object. That would be really cool. I might just write something like this for myself if it doesn't exist. I could build that abstraction layer on simples3 or boto. For opening, it should be

This question already has answers here : How is Docker different from a virtual machine? (19 answers) Are there any differences in images of Docker and Virtual Machine? Except the image formats, I couldn't find any info on this anywhere. Please comment out on the things like image size, instance creation time, capture time, etc. Thanks! devesh-ahuja These are some differences between a docker and a VM image which I could list out: 1. Snapshot process is faster in Docker than VMs We generally start with a base image, and then make our changes, and commit those changes using docker, and it