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November 1, 2019

State of API Security

The current age is the age of science and technology. With the advent of modern technology, the problems associated with modern technology have also increased to a great level.

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) have become all the rage nowadays, with enterprise developers now relying heavily on them to support the delivery of new products and services. With the number of APIs increasing, the amount of data that is passed on networks is also increasing.

August 6, 2019

Four Most Used REST API Authentication Methods

While there are as many proprietary authentication methods as there are systems that utilize them, they are largely variations of a few major approaches. In this post, I will go over the four most used in the REST APIs and microservices world.

Authentication vs. Authorization

Before I dive into this, let's define what authentication actually is, and more importantly, what it’s not. As much as authentication drives the modern internet, the topic is often conflated with a closely related term: authorization.

Packages for Store Routines in MariaDB 11.4
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MariaDB 11.4 introduced many advanced features. One that grabbed my attention is the general support of packages for stored routines. Although this was previously available by activating the Oracle compatibility mode, now the feature is available gener... […]
Maintain Chat History in Generative AI Apps With Valkey
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A while back I wrote up a blog post on how to use Redis as a chat history component with LangChain. Since LangChain already had Redis chat history available as a component, it was quite convenient to write a client application. But, that's not the same... […]
Knowledge Graph Enlightenment, AI, and RAG
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In the previous edition of the YotG newsletter, the wave of Generative AI hype was probably at its all-time high. Today, while Generative AI is still talked about and trialed, the hype is subsiding. Skepticism is settling in, and for good reason. Repor... […]
Building an Effective Zero Trust Security Strategy for End-To-End Cyber Risk Management
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You've probably heard a lot about zero-trust security lately, and for good reason. As we move more of our applications and data to the cloud, the traditional castle-and-moat approach to security just doesn't cut it anymore. This makes me come... […]
Phased Approach to Data Warehouse Modernization
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A modernized database will help you focus on building innovative solutions rather than investing your time and effort in managing these legacy systems. Based on the scale of your existing data warehouse processes or jobs, it can be an enormous task to ... […]