[[This is Chapter XVII(d) from “beta” Volume 2 of the upcoming book “Development&Deployment of Multiplayer Online Games”, which is currently being beta-tested.
UTF-8 EverywhereOur goal is to promote usage and support of the UTF-8 encoding and to convince that it should be the default choice of encoding for storing text strings in memory or on disk, for communication and all other uses.
Reflections on REST API design with Swagger. REST’s accidental complexity.Reflections on REST API design with Swagger. REST’s accidental complexity.Over the last year we built a service and we used Swagger / openAPI to define the API in machine readable format.The YAML spec of the API is the main contract of our service.
How I Became HackerRank #1 In Two HoursMy ranking on Hacker Rank is #1 for Java programming and it only took me two hours. For every question on the HackerRank site, there is a discussion area. In the discussion area are the answers for the questions; often posted by moderators of the site.
6 encryption mistakes that lead to data breachesAs you can see, a massive amount of data security responsibilities are shouldered upon you. And this is true of any cloud provider. Protecting your sensitive data with low-level encryption solutions such as disk or file encryption can seem like a tempting one-click-fix.
BedrockBedrock is a simple, modular, WAN-replicated data foundation for global-scale applications. Taking each of those in turn:
"The Linux Kernel Hidden Inside Windows 10" techtalk by Alex Ionescu"The Linux Kernel Hidden Inside Windows 10" techtalk by Alex Ionescu at BlackHat USA 2016Slides for the presentation https://github.com/ionescu007/lxss/bl...Other videos from BlackHat USA 2016 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...
Taking PHP SeriouslySlack uses PHP for most of its server-side application logic, which is an unusual choice these days. Why did we choose to build a new project in this language? Should you?
Why is Apache Vulnerable by Default?Apache is the most popular web server on Earth, with a market share of 46.4%?—?well above Nginx (21.8%) and Microsoft IIS (9.8%). Thanks to Linux package managers like Yum and APT you can install and get it up and running in minutes.
Toggl - Free Time Tracking SoftwareThis Read-It-Later-list is just that, bookmarks of stuff I intend to read or have read. I do not necessarily agree with opinions or statements in the bookmarked articles.
This list is compiled from my Pocket list.