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Introduction

System Design Fun Facts — Episode 5

Master API traffic control with NGINX. Learn how to throttle requests by IP, protect IIS backends, and deploy a robust rate-limiting setup…

During the rate-limiter implementation, I had to go through the external API security code in our project, and it was utter bizarre, A…

There are few networking components as critical — and as misunderstood — as forward proxies and reverse proxies. Both act as…

Microservices security in depth

TIMING ATTACK — Why Generic Authentication Errors Are Not Enough (And How Response Time Can Betray You) As backend engineers, we’re often taught a core security practice when building …

In the modern landscape of web development, simple authentication measures like basic API keys or passwords are no longer sufficient to…

Penetration testing interviews test both theory and practical knowledge.

Mobile applications are not trusted systems.

Story

GitHub recently paid $100,000 bug bounty for discovering a critical vulnerability in GitHub’s internal Git infrastructure. The reason lies…