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January 29, 2022

Down With Cookie Walls, Give Us the Web Privacy API!

Google, Facebook, other advertisers profile us and invade our privacy in all ways imaginable. Lawmakers are always behind, cookie walls and opt-out schemes don’t do much, except ruining the web. Is there a better way? How about a new, GDPR-enforced Web Privacy API? This article lays out a design for an alternative, in form of an RFC.

A few days ago Google announced that it's killing FLoC. The invasive tracking technology, announced in 2021, met with widespread opposition, is finally being dropped, but only to be replaced with the Topics API. This new proposal is technically different, but it still aims at the same goal:

May 15, 2019

API News Roundup for May 2019

It's that time again! May has turned out to be an exciting month of API stories in the news. Below is the API news roundup for May 2019.

API News Roundup for May 2019

Cisco Patches Elastic Services Controller to Address Critical REST API Vulnerability

This week Cisco Systems Inc. posted a critical security advisory addressing a vulnerability in the REST API of its Elastic Services Controller (ESC). If successfully exploited, the vulnerability could let an unauthenticated, remote attacker bypass authentication on the REST API.

PostgreSQL BiDirectional Replication
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As you can understand from my previous blogs I am really into PostgreSQL. Previously we ran Debezium in Embedded mode. Behind the scenes, Debezium consumes the changes that were committed to the transaction log. This happens by utilizing the logical de... […]
Twenty Things Every Java Software Architect Should Know
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As the software development landscape continues to evolve at a rapid pace, Java stands out as a foundational language that drives a multitude of applications on a global scale. In 2024, the role of a Java software architect has assumed unprecedented si... […]
How To Plan a (Successful) MuleSoft VPN Migration (Part II)
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In this second post, we'll be reviewing more topics that you should take into consideration if you're planning a VPN migration. If you missed the first part, you can start from there. […]
Leveraging Microsoft Graph API for Unified Data Access and Insights
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In today's world driven by data, it is essential for businesses and developers to efficiently access and manage data. The Microsoft Graph API serves as a gateway to connect with Microsoft services, like Office 365 Azure AD, OneDrive, Teams, and more. B... […]
AWS CDK: Infrastructure as Abstract Data Types
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Infrastructure as Code (IaC), as the name implies, is a practice that consists of defining infrastructure elements with code. This is opposed to doing it through a GUI (Graphical User Interface) like, for example, the AWS Console. The idea is that in o... […]