Where Is This Coming From?
In enterprise software the top one question you have to answer as a developer almost every day is “Where is this coming from?”. When trying to fix bugs, when developingContinue reading
One-Month of Microsoft DKIM Failure and Thoughts on Technical Excellence
Last month I published an article about getting email settings right. I had recently configured DKIM on our company domain and was happy to share the experience. However, the nextContinue reading
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