Start with the naive version. It isn’t a strawman – it’s what a checkout looks like before anyone thinks about this specifically. The cart page computes a subtotal, applies a VAT rate, shows a total, and the ‘pay’ button posts that…
Run a scanner against a page and within seconds you may find missing labels, contrast problems, ARIA mistakes, structural issues, and other WCAG-related signals. For developers, that feedback loop is valuable. The problem starts when we confuse: “No automated failures…
Most businesses don't start looking for custom software because they want another dashboard. They start because something isn't working. Data is scattered across spreadsheets. Employees repeat the same tasks every day. An off-the-shelf tool handles 80% of the workflow, but the…
TCP SYN Floods & SYN Cookies The classic TCP 3-Way Handshake has an inherent asymmetry that attackers exploit for denial-of-service. ⚡ The Half-Open Vulnerability Every incoming SYN allocates a socket structure in the kernel's SYN queue. If ACKs never arrive, the queue…
What I actually found was two counters wearing one name. One of them is cheap and resets itself. The other one was quietly counting my own messages. My working theory had been that every failover jump costs a retry, so…
Since launching my advertising software development company in 2000, I have seen an explosion in the availability of custom applications that once would have been financially out of reach for small and mid-sized businesses. “Application,” in our vernacular, can refer to…
A plain-English guide to moving serverless apps from Google Cloud to AWS: Cloud Run, Cloud Run functions, App Engine, Eventarc, Cloud Tasks, Scheduler and Workflows. What replaces what, what behaves differently, what changes on the bill, and a step-by-step plan.
A practical guide to running a BigQuery to Amazon Redshift proof of concept and avoiding the pitfalls that most often make the results misleading. Best practices for a BigQuery to Amazon Redshift migration proof of concept (POC) A practical guide…
Você sabia que pode acompanhar cada alteração nas leis dos EUA como se fosse um projeto de software? Com Git, GitHub Actions e modelos de linguagem, é possível ter um repositório sempre atualizado do US Code, receber alertas em tempo…
Before you can run a node for a blockchain protocol, there are several things to prepare. In this 4-part series, I discuss the prerequisites for running nodes on Oasis in detail. In part 1, we learned about hardware and cloud providers.
System design, microservices vs monoliths, event-driven architectures, DDD, and resilient patterns.
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