Event Logs
Most system have some sort of event logs – i.e. what has happened in the system and who did it. And sometimes it has a dual existence – once asContinue reading
Spring Boot, @EnableWebMvc And Common Use-Cases
It turns out that Spring Boot doesn’t mix well with the standard Spring MVC @EnableWebMvc. What happens when you add the annotation is that spring boot autoconfiguration is disabled. TheContinue reading
Distributed Cache – Overview
What’s a distributed cache? A solution that is “deployed” in an application (typically a web application) and that makes sure data is loaded from memory, rather than from disk (whichContinue reading
Distributing Election Volunteers In Polling Stations
There’s an upcoming election in my country, and I’m a member of the governing body of one of the new parties. As we have a lot of focus on technologyContinue reading
“Infinity” is a Bad Default Timeout
Many libraries wrap some external communication. Be it a REST-like API, a message queue, a database, a mail server or something else. And therefore you have to have some timeoutContinue reading
Protecting Sensitive Data
If you are building a service that stores sensitive data, your number one concern should be how to protect it. What IS sensitive data? There are some obvious examples, likeContinue reading
A Case For Native Smart Card Support in Browsers
A smart card is a device that holds a private key securely without letting it out of its storage. The chip on your credit card is a “smart card” (yup,Continue reading
Computer Science Concepts That Non-Technical People Should Know
Sometimes it happens that people speak different languages. Even when speaking the same language. People have their own professional specifics. Biologist may see the world as the way a cellContinue reading
Why I Chose to Be a Government Advisor
A year and a half ago I agreed to become advisor in the cabinet of the deputy primer minister of my country (Bulgaria). It might have looked like a bizarreContinue reading
Forget ISO-8859-1
UTF-8 was first presented in 1993. One would assume that 24 years is enough to time for it to become ubiquitous, especially given that the Internet is global. ASCII doesn’tContinue reading