Linkerd: Twitter-Style Operability for Microservices

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How do you operate modern, cloud-native applications at scale? What problems arise in practice, and how are they addressed? What is actually required to run a cloud-native, microservices-based application under high-volume and unpredictable workloads,…

21 February 2016

A Technical Perspective on the Apple iPhone Case

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The legal dispute between Apple and the FBI might prove pivotal in the long-running battle to protect users' privacy and right to use uncompromised encryption. The case has captured the public imagination. Of course, EFF supports Apple's efforts to protect…

20 February 2016

Tutorial: Set Up a Secure Node.js Web Application

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Every application has to live somewhere — a server, a phone, a device — an environment. Before we start worrying if we have used secure coding practises and avoided common mistakes we must secure the foundation of our application otherwise all our effort…

20 February 2016

Web Powered SMS Inbox with Service Worker: Push Notifications

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Recently I have been building a web application that I can use as a fully featured SMS messaging application for a Twilio number. It has a list of all messages sent and received and can be used to send new messages and reply to existing conversations. …

19 February 2016

How Google’s Web Crawler Bypasses Paywalls

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Update: A newer version of the chrome extension is available here. Wall Street Journal fixed their “paste a headline into Google News” paywall trick. However, Google can still index the content. Digital publications allow discriminatory access for search…

19 February 2016

How to Use Varnish Cache as Secured AWS S3 Gateway

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In this blog post, I will go over how to configure Varnish Cache to act as a secured gateway for your Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 content. There are many reasons to use Varnish Cache as an AWS S3 gateway: caching, more efficient bandwidth utilization,…

19 February 2016