Runtime application self-protection. RASP software sits in or near your application while it’s running to monitor and analyze its traffic and behavior. If an issue is detected, the RASP solution can send alerts and block individual requests. It’s able to watch for whole categories of attacks rather than relying on recognizing the signatures of specific Read more…

Web Application Firewall.

Toil is the kind of work tied to running a production service that tends to be manual, repetitive, automatable, tactical, devoid of enduring value, and that scales linearly as a service grows. Source: https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/chapters/eliminating-toil/ Toil should be automated as much as possible.

Boring does not mean bad. Postgres is boring. Ruby is boring. Ruby on Rails is boring. They are good and well understood. Their failure modes are well understood. Polyglot programming is sold with the promise that letting developers choose their own tools with complete freedom will make them more effective at solving problems. This is Read more…

Elimination of redundant data.

Data Transfer Object