When “public infrastructure” is mentioned, typically people think of roads, bridges, rails, dams, power plants, city lights. These are all enablers, publicly funded/owned/managed (not necessarily all of these), which allowContinue reading
This week I was invited to be a panelist, together with other digital ministers, on a side-event organized by Ukraine in Davos, during the World Economic Forum. The topic wasContinue reading
Microsoft Exchange has a bug that practically stops email. (The public sector is primarily using Exchange, so many of the institutions I’m responsible for as a minister, have their emailContinue reading
Last week the Bulgarian National assembly appointed the new government. I am one of the appointed ministers – a minister for electronic governance. The portfolio includes digitizing registers and processesContinue reading
You build a system. User authentication is the component that is always there, regardless of the functionality of the system. And by now it should be simple to implement itContinue reading
The title may sound as a paper title, rather than a blogpost, because it was originally an idea for such, but I’m unlikely to find the time to put aContinue reading
Facebook was down. I’d recommend reading Cloudflare’s summary. Then I recommend reading Facebook’s own account on the incident. But let me expand on that. Facebook published announcements and withdrawals forContinue reading
Today I read a very interesting article about the prominence of Bulgarian hackers (in the black-hat sense) and virus authors in the 90s, linking that to the focus on technicalContinue reading
Spring Integration is a very powerful and extensible framework for, well, integrations. But sometimes it’s not trivial how to get some information that yo need. In my case – aContinue reading
We’ve all used dozens of serialization frameworks – for JSON, XML, binary, and ORMs (which are effectively serialization frameworks for relational databases). And there’s always the moment when you needContinue reading