Writing software consists of very little actual “writing”, and much more thinking, designing, reading, “digging”, analyzing, debugging, refactoring, aligning and meeting others. The reading and digging part is where youContinue reading
Sometimes you don’t have a PKI in place but you still need a key and a corresponding certificate to sign stuff (outside of the TLS context). And after the certificateContinue reading
Caching is key for performance of nearly every application. Distributed caching is sometimes needed, but not always. In many cases a local cache would work just fine and there’s noContinue reading
In the category of “niche blogposts”, this is probably the “nichest”. But it might be useful, so I’ll share it. Recently I had to interface an IBM i system (thinkContinue reading
I was thinking the other days – why writing good code is so hard? Why the industry still hasn’t got to producing quality software, despite years of efforts, best practices,Continue reading
Last week Acronis (famous for their TrueImage) organized a conference in Sofia about cybersecurity for developers and I was invited to give a talk. It’s always hard to pick aContinue reading
Apache Cassandra is fast and scalable database which over the years became almost as easy to use as a traditional SQL database. At least on the surface. You an useContinue reading
So I had this naive idea that it would be easy to do certificate transparency verification as part of each request in addition to certificate validity checks (in Java). WithContinue reading
Heroku is a popular Platform-as-a-Service provider and it offers vendors the option to be provided as add-ons. Add-ons can be used by Heroku customers in different ways, but a typicalContinue reading
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