I have been engineering solutions based on Amazon S3 for many years. I firmly believe that S3 is one of the most significant advancements in the IT industry over the past two decades. Its design, programmability, and ability to raise events and implement sophisticated choreographies are unparalleled. I have designed solutions and used S3 to […]
Recently I spent quite some time studying the infrastructure blueprint of the European green certificate. I have to say that I am rather impressed by the whole solution and the way it has been designed, implemented and shipped to citizens. The overall quality looks to be good, sharp, solid and well thought. All the components […]
This is an interesting graphical explanation on how the HTTPS handshaking occurs. http://sudhakar.online/programming/2015/08/09/https.html Most people working in Web Services don’t understand the HTTPS handshaking implications. This is a critical information to know since it can potentially have a detrimental effect on High Latency network connections. Some more information about this, can be retrieved on the […]
The evolution of Big Data platforms I found this article about Big Data solutions and the cooling effect they are causing in our society. Social Cooling is the effect that Big Data platforms are causing on our way to live the web. The rationale behind this is that, if a person knows that he/she is […]
Let’s Encrypt! I recently started to focus on the Let’s encrypt free certification authority, a total revolution in the way encryption is offered. I thought it would be useful to write this article and here we are. For those of you that don’t know what it is, a short description from the service’s home page […]
A very interesting article about C Programming Principles. Even if it does not say anything new and can be considering a “yet another good article about C programming”, I found it useful and therefore I am reporting it here. https://drewdevault.com/2017/03/15/How-I-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-C.html
Introduction I developed several Linux daemons and Windows Services in my career. The differences between the 2 systems are enormous. I personally prefer to develop Linux daemons due to my love of Linux development. I feel like home working on Linux. What is a Linux daemon and how does it differ from a traditional user-space […]
Introduction How many times you felt protected by the new end to end encryption solution of your preferred mobile chat application? I recently participated to a work-group on data security in Brussels. The work group was organized by the Brussels Privacy Hub together with ICRC (international Committee of the red cross). It was about data security […]
Introduction Hey guys, today I would like to share with you one of the recent experiences I have had while following my duties at WFP. We recently deployed a new platform which consists in a set of restful APIs which serve the purpose of data gateway/brokering between different systems. The API gateway system has been […]
Introduction When we talk about cloud services, we always think they are perfect, they never fail and they are operational 100% of the time. Is it the reality? Is it true? Can a system be operational forever? I don’t think so. Do you? Just Today google cloud computing platform went down for more than 1 […]
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