Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is what happens when you ask a software engineer to design an operations team. An SRE team is responsible for availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning. SRE is fundamentally doing work that has historically been done by an operations team, but using engineers with software […]

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Today I made all my sites ‘Https Everywhere’, that is, every URL on these sites enforce the HTTPS (SSL) protocol. Non-secure HTTP requests get redirected to HTTPS. Here’s some notes on that journey. A big thanks to the folks @ Let’s Encrypt for providing the necessary certificates and support, all for free. I also owe […]

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“An algorithm must be seen to be believed”, these are the words from Donald Knuth himself, the master who has written the best and comprehensive books on Algorithms. Here are some resources which would help you in visualising some common algorithms: Algorithm Visualizer: The visualisations are pretty good on this one. You can see the […]

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The OWASP Mobile Security Testing Guide (MSTG) is the ultimate guide for mobile app security testing and reverse engineering. The MSTG is a comprehensive manual for testing the security of mobile apps. It describes technical processes for verifying the controls listed in the OWASP Mobile Application Verification Standard (MASVS). The MSTG provides a baseline set […]

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Programmers have long been obsessed with fonts, and monospace font types (a long time Consolas user myself) have been their favorite. In programming a lot of character sequences are used to denote a particular operation, for example ->,

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