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Web Backend Security Headers - 1. CSP Headers

Table of Contents Web Backend Security Headers CSP Headers CSRF Headers HSTS X-Frame-Options and X-XSS-Protection DNS records and SPF Background Content Security Policy (CSP) is a security standard introduced to prevent cross-site scripting, clickjacking and other code injection attacks.

March 13, 2021

Web Backend Security Headers -3. HSTS

Table of Contents Web Backend Security Headers CSP Headers CSRF Headers HSTS X-Frame-Options and X-XSS-Protection DNS records and SPF Background HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) is a web security policy mechanism that helps to protect websites against man-in-the-middle attacks such as protocol downgrade attacks and cookie hijacking.

March 14, 2021

Design Concepts

... Cache Invalidation How is the cache maintained? Write-through Update the cache when the backend gets updated. Write-heavy. Read-through (Write-around) Update the cache when there is a cache miss; read from the backend.

November 20, 2019

Useful Links

This is a personal list of useful resources for improving web stacks, frameworks, development, UX, whatever that I come across! Software Engineering The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) Encryption vs.

September 4, 2017

A primer on MapReduce

To first understand this very popular backend technology called MapReduce, let's take a look at Map and Reduce. Terminology The terms Map and Reduce are actually very popular higher-order functions used in functional programming.

July 11, 2020

Web Development 101

... in traditional REST. Great developer-to-developer experience between front-end teams and API backend teams. Use of lightweight JSON SDL (schema definition language) as a declarative query language.

November 9, 2017