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Published: 27 March 2024
Tags: system design
Alessio Ferri and Tom Coggrave explain the thought process behind moving a large mainframe system to a cloud native application.
Some highlights:
used a ‘just enough, and just in time’ upfront design
the move was required because the old system made changes slow and expensive, it was expensive to maintain, and finding talent to maintain it was difficult
discusses “Incremental Legacy Displacement: Principles, Benefits, and Considerations”
Published: 27 March 2024
Tags: distributed systems, kafka
Yunji Zhong, Amit Gud, and Carlos Herrera describe the best practices of setting up multi-tenancy with kafka using a real example.
Some highlights:
system is used for testing traffic in production
isolating data on an infrastructure level prevents outages or other severe issues
“streamlined the test-and-release process for product team engineers through simple YAML file configurations while ensuring the security and isolation of each tenant’s data”
Published: 16 February 2024
Tags: sponsored, auth, architecture
WorkOS has published a guide that “surfaces complexities and implementation details for supporting organization modeling as part of the authentication and authorization layer for apps”.
Some highlights:
“if you ever want to sell to an enterprise your backend needs to be ready to support complex models of users and teams”
looks at the different ways you can implement the database tables for modeling the organization
most of the complexity comes from users that need to be a part of multiple organizations
Published: 18 February 2024
Tags: infosec, web
Paulos Yibelo presents a method for hijacking user interaction in a browser.
Some highlights:
hijacks space and enter key strokes
uses html id tags to select elements unbeknownst to the user
can be used to hijack accounts via oauth
With rising costs for Amazon S3 storage and potentially devastating business consequences from data loss, you need a holistic approach to cutting unnecessary spending and guarding against risks. Lawrence Miller, a consultant to multinational corporations who holds numerous networking certifications, has authored a concise volume that lays out the path to success in managing backup and compliance for S3 data lakes.
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