Data breaches happen practically every day. Personal, including financial and medical data leak to cyber criminals as well as intelligence agencies. Some notable breaches include the Equifax breach, where dozensContinue reading
Distributed p2p technologies have always been fascinating to me. Bittorrent is cool not because you can download pirated content for free, but because it’s an amazing piece of technology. AtContinue reading
Practically every web application is supposed to have multiple users and each user has some data – posts, documents, messages, whatever. And the most obvious thing to do is toContinue reading
On a recent conference (HackConf) I gave a talk where I tried to summarize how to do deployment and horizontal scaling on AWS. It is an overview of AWS resourcesContinue reading
You may think you have logs. Chances are, you can rely on them only for tracing exceptions and debugging. But you can’t rely on them for compliance, forensics, or anyContinue reading
Recently I’ve been releasing a new build, as usual utilizing a blue-green deployment by switching the DNS record to point to the load balancer of the previously “spare” group. ButContinue reading
Sometimes you need to export a lot of data to JSON to a file. Maybe it’s “export all data to JSON”, or the GDPR “Right to portability”, where you effectivelyContinue reading
Sometimes (very often in my experience) you need to support white-labelling of your application. You may normally run it in a SaaS fashion, but some important or high profile clientsContinue reading
Eclipse Photon has been released a few days ago, and I decided to do yet another comparison with IntelliJ IDEA. Last time I explained why I still prefer Eclipse, butContinue reading
Sometimes, especially in government or enterprise context, you need to sign a document in the browser using a smartcard (some may call it “crypto token”). It’s rare, but many peopleContinue reading