Everyone has stories to tell. 'Stories of a Polyglot' is a pensive of my experiences of dealing with different technologies and my learnings from them.
Connection pools are a critical aspect of software engineering that allows applications to efficiently manage connections to a database or any other system. If your application requires constant access to a system, establishing a new connection to th...
For decades, we have benefited from modern cryptography to protect our sensitive data during transmission and storage. However, we have never been able to keep the data protected while it is being processed. Nearly 4 billion data records were stolen ...
The central idea behind microservices is that some types of applications become easier to build and maintain when they are broken down into smaller, composable pieces which work together. Each component is continuously developed and separately mainta...
Ever since Docker released its first version back in 2013, it triggered a major shift in the way the software industry works. Lightweight VMs suddenly caught the attention of the world and opened opportunities of unlimited possibilities. Containers p...
When Brendan Eich, during his time at Netscape created JavaScript in 1995, I doubt that he seldom had any idea of what the language will grow out to be in the coming future. When Netscape partnered with Sun to take on their competitor Microsoft, Br...
With the global pandemic resulting in a world-wide quarantine, we're seeing a lot interest peeking in Python as language. Social-media, developer blogs and other platforms are flooding with blogs, videos, podcasts, etc. related to either getting star...
Traditionally, when people initially started building for the web, they used to follow a particular pattern. There used to be a simple client-server architecture. The browser, acting as a client, used to request for stuff. The server, on the other ha...
With recent security disasters, such as NordVPN falling a victim to credit stuffing attacks affecting around 2000 users, Mastercard's data leak affecting 90,000 users, ixigo falling a victim to intrusions affecting as much as 17 million users, an...
The internet contains tons of information out there about Django: The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines . Why do we need one more article to add to it? The motivation of writing this blog post was a good friend of mine with whom I was ...