Major internet service provider causing extensive business damages to our business due to their unreasonable and hidden service policies.
As a small UK business we run online international software with several users signing up to our service from GMail or from email powered by GSuite, the Google email service provided to run email on their server on behalf of your website/business.
GMail is a great service but as a business we have discovered that they have an internal classification on how handle SPAM that goes as far as rejecting emails. An example of their rejection bounce message response shows
<d**************o@gmail.com>: host gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[74.125.142.26] said: 550-5.7.1 [xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Our system has detected that this message is 550-5.7.1 likely suspicious due to the very low reputation of the sending 550-5.7.1 domain. To best protect our users from spam, the message has been 550-5.7.1 blocked. Please visit 550 5.7.1 https://support.google.com/mail/answer/188131 for more information. m14si485512pgs.39 – gsmtp (in reply to end of DATA command)
We have now experienced this disservice since the 29th of January 2020 and all our emails are rejected. This is despite following all their guidelines and their suggestion.
The situation is so bad that Google/Gmail users send emails to us and despite their interaction we are still unable to reply back because Gmail blocks all emails.
Below are a few facts/comments on our experience with GMail/GSuite while trying to troubleshoot the problem:
See our support thread on the Google forum with all the details exchanges with product experts and other users confirming all the steps we have taken into trying to troubleshoot the problem and how all the suggestions from them do not work https://support.google.com/mail/thread/27427166 .
If you are also experiencing this problem, managed to solve or you just want to contact us with more information regarding the problem please contact us.
When you are hosting private code, for instance for a reusable component, on Gitlab you will not be able to clone it unless you have access or are authenticated with the GitLab backend and are authorised to the repository.
Access tokens are a great way to allow an alternative way to clone or add your project as a dependency to a parent project. For example you can use tokens as part of your Continuous Integration pipeline to build, test and deploy your project.
If you add a project in your composer.json ( composer is the de facto package manager most used in PHP) , such as
composer.phar require "bizmate/my-private-package:2.*"You will see something like
Could not fetch https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/bizmate%2Fmy-private-package/repository/archive.zip?sha=..., enter your gitlab.com credentials to access private repos A token will be created and stored in "/home/composer/.composer/auth.json", your password will never be stored To revoke access to this token you can visit gitlab.com/profile/applications Username: Password: Bad credentials. You can also manually create a personal token at https://gitlab.com/profile/personal_access_tokens Add it using "composer config --global --auth gitlab-token.gitlab.com <token>"
Using username and password credentials is not a great approach as they are critical information and also because if you have 2FA enabled it might not work.
The only stable solution is to create a Personal Access Token and set it up in the Composer configuration so that composer can build the correct links to clone git repositories from GitLab by adding the right token to the URL.
Inspect your configuration within composer with command
$ composer config --list #or $ composer config --global --list
to fetch the global configuration. To set up the right configuration you can run
composer config --global gitlab-token.gitlab.com a______________________a
again the –global option is present to set it up in the system wide configuration of your PC.
$ phpbrew install 7.2 +everything -dtrace -pgsql -tidy
Simple Email Service (SES) is one of the great AWS services for email
As per original instructions, credentials for this service can be generated from the console or you could generate it from your user credentials, AWS Secret Access Key.
RabbitMQ is a great option for the implementation of an AMQP (Advanced Message Queuing Protocol) queuing system.
Why would you need a queuing system? So that you can offload heavy tasks to be processed in a separate process asynchronously and avoid blocking your client, on your website for instance.
Guzzle is a great wrapper to run Curl requests from your PHP applications
As part of my development requirements for MyReviews.link, I had to implement a fast concurrent way to perform http requests to several servers.
This is a drive through the requirement to install an AWS S3 Bucket on a Virtual Machine, on your PC and provisioned by VirtualBox, with an FTP service that can make use of the AWS S3 Bucket for persistent distributed storage. The reason to have a S3 bucket is to allow the use of a single persistent storage for several services (for instance multiple FTP servers) running for different clients and exposed by a dedicated virtual machine.
Please note the below instructions are for Windows only
You might want to enable access to your Windows laptop or to the internet through a Wifi network.
Time to market and how effective your business is in delivering quality IT solutions could be a crucial differentiator against competition.
Agile Versus Waterfall development methodologies
Are you stuck with an old version of git on your ubuntu server? Please continue reading below.