A recap of 2024
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Blog of Serhat M. Dündar | Ruby, Rails, Golang, PostgreSQL, AWS, Security
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Disassociating corporate habits
A reflection of making your brain forget habits that have been deeply wired in your neurons and reinforced thousands of times
latencytest.me
Latency Test is a free-to-use tool for testing the latency of web applications, websites, APIs, and more. It can visualize each step in an HTTP request to reveal bottlenecks in a request and response cycle. Latency Test is also an advanced uptime monitoring solution that provides in-depth insights into the availability of applications and provides plenty of integrations for alerting. As seen on:…
holidays.rest
holidays.rest is a full-fledged holiday API that provides accurate national, public, and bank holiday data from 195+ countries and 3600+ regions. Thanks to its ready-to-use OpenAPI specification files, insomnia and Postman collections, and detailed API documentation getting started with holidays.rest is extremely easy. holidays.rest is built on modern technologies and designed to ensure…
A recap of 2023
Highlights, lowlights and moments from 2023
Go runtimes in AWS Lambda
A brief comparison of Go runtimes in AWS Lambda: go1.x VS. provided.al2
Securing webhooks
An overview and comparison of various webhook security methods
Deconstructing and understanding an SSL certificate
Deconstructing an SSL certificate and understanding components of it.
Storing passwords in a database: hashing, salts, and peppers
Storing passwords securely in a database with hashing, salts, and peppers.
A primitive hashing function in Go
A primitive hashing function written in Go to demonstrate concepts such as an XOR machine.
SSL/TLS handshake, hybrid encryption and public key infrastructure (PKI)
Hybrid encryption, SSL/TLS handshake and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) explained.
Symmetric and asymmetric encryption
A detailed scenario-based comparison of symmetric and asymmetric encryption methods.
Canary AWS Lambda deployments
Gradual/Canary deployments with AWS Lambda explained.
Book review: The Design of Web APIs
A book review of The Design of Web APIs.
Packing JS projects for AWS Lambda with Grunt
A sample Grunt configuration to pack JS projects for AWS Lambda.
Rails and PostgreSQL: types
Using PostgreSQL types with Ruby on Rails.
Rails and PostgreSQL: constraints
Using PostgreSQL constraints with Ruby on Rails.
Tuning PostgreSQL configuration
Using pgtune for a fine-tuned PostgreSQL database.
Encrypting sensitive data with Rails
Encrypting sensitive data by only using native capabilities of Rails
Rails instantiated fixtures
Auto-instantiated fixtures in Ruby on Rails.
Import big MySQL databases faster
Configuring InnoDB for faster MySQL imports.
Running rake tasks in a loop
Re-enabling rake tasks to make them run in a loop.
Using has_many :through for nested relations in Rails
Using 'has_many :through' for more effective nested many-to-many relations in Rails.
Boolean type words in YAML
A brief summary of boolean type words in YAML.
Calculating similarity between two data with Ruby and Elasticsearch
Using Elasticsearch features for detecting similarity between a set of data with Ruby.
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