Factor Cost Efficiency into Platform Engineering for Growth, Profitability
Imbuing platform engineering with an additional focus on cost-efficiency can help businesses ride out difficult financial periods and put them on a flywheel for growth.
Passkeys: Using FIDO for Secure and Easy Authentication
Passkeys, the popular name for FIDO, are not only easy, they offer better protection against phishing than other forms of multi-factor authentication. This is how they work.
Data API builder for Azure SQL Databases - Public Preview - Azure SQL Devs’ Corner
I am extremely happy and excited to announce the public preview of Data API builder for Azure SQL Databases. Data API builder is a new product that we are adding to the developer’s toolset to help every developer to be more efficient and effective,
PGP Web of Trust: Core Concepts Behind Trusted Communication - Linux.com
Public Key Cryptography infrastructure (PKI) has two main implementations. One is done using certificates and certificate authorities (CAs), and is described in the X.509 standard. It is best suited for structured organizational hierarchies with an implicitly trusted authority that vouches for all issued certificates. It’s the standard that is behind SSL/TLS and S/MIME email encryption. …
Is the PGP Web of Trust / Keyserver infrastructure permanently broken?
I love the idea of decentralized trust, the web of trust, and the fact that anyone can run their own keyserver and isn't beholden to a centralized point of failure. But does the decentralized "feat...
I'm studying network and system security and I came across the phrase "web of trust". From Wikipedia:
In cryptography, a web of trust is a concept used in PGP, GnuPG, and
other OpenPGP-compati...
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Discover the parody blog post about the Stateful Factory pattern, a made-up design pattern that highlights the importance of critical thinking in software development. Learn how this fictional pattern ‘solves’ object creation problems, and read the humorous account of a code review where it’s ‘successfully’ implemented. This entertaining piece serves as a reminder to avoid blindly following trends and to evaluate the specific needs of your application before applying any design pattern.
Making the Saga Pattern Work Without All the Headaches
The Saga Pattern is a great tool for durable microservices execution, but it can make maintenance difficult. Here's a recipe for making it work for your systems.
Wasm is expected to serve as a very important computing structure. This is because Wasm allows applications to be deployed and distributed with fewer security layers to manage, for instance.
LinkedIn Unifies Stream and Batch Processing with Apache Beam
By migrating to Apache Beam, social networking service LinkedIn unified its streaming and batch source code files, and reduced data processing time by 94%.