One-Time Passwords Do Not Provide Non-Repudiation
The title is obvious and it could’ve been a tweet rather than a blogpost. But let me expand. OTP, or one-time password, used to be mainstream with online banking. YouContinue reading
Solving Problems Properly Is Often Not Viable
How many times you, as a software expert, saw some software or process and thought “damn, this can be done so much better”. Yes, a lot. But why, since largeContinue reading
Getting Email Sending Settings Right
Email. The most common means of internet communication, that has been around for ages and nobody has been able to replace it. And yet, it is so hard to getContinue reading
A Disk-Backed ArrayList
It sometimes happens that your list can become too big to fit in memory and you have to do something in order to avoid running out of memory. The properContinue reading
Near Real-Time Indexing With ElasticSearch
Choosing your indexing strategy is hard. The Elasticsearch documentation does have some general recommendations, and there are some tips from other companies, but it also depends on the particular usecase.Continue reading
A Technical Guide to CCPA
CCPA, or the California Consumer Privacy Act, is the upcoming “small GDPR” that is applied for all companies that have users from California (i.e. it has extraterritorial application). It isContinue reading
Restoring Cassandra Priam Backup With sstableloader
I’ve previously written about setting up Cassandra and Priam for backup and cluster management. The example that I gave for backup restore there, however, is not applicable in every situationContinue reading
Blockchain Overview – Types, Use-Cases, Security and Usability [slides]
This week I have a talk on a meetup about blockchain beyond the hype – its actual implementation issues and proper use-cases. The slides can be found here: The mainContinue reading
The Personal Data Store Pattern
With the recent trend towards data protection and privacy, as well as the requirements of data protection regulations like GDPR and CCPA, some organizations are trying to reorganize their personalContinue reading
Remote Log Collection on Windows
Every organization needs to collect logs from multiple sources in order to put them in either a log collector or SIEM (or a dedicated audit trail solution). And there areContinue reading