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What caused the cold start performance “dip” in MariaDB .. Let us discuss (@percona Article)
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PostgreSQL 12 Top Features Explained
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Will the New Chrome version 80 finally end Cross-Site Request forgery?
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Google blocks Embedded browsers sign ins to avoid MITM phishing attacks
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Node JS fixes an HTTP Request Smuggling vulnerability
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Envoy fixes a critical security bug related to HTTP headers with whitespaces
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Firefox deprecates support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 ( THIS IS GREAT! BUT .... )
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I'm in love with these new Javascript features - Javascript Optional Chaining and nullish coalescing
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Firefox fixes a bug that prevented users from signing into the Royal Bank of Canada (73.1)
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mySQL 8 Atomic DDL is not what you think it is
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What is DNS over HTTPS ?
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Firefox re-enables TLS 1.0 & TLS 1.1 to allow access to legacy websites hosting COVID19 information
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Chrome follows FireFox steps - Rolling back SameSite cookie change
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WhatsApp Limits Forwarding of Viral Messages
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SameSite By Default Cookie Breaking Change is Coming Back Mid July 2020
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Remote Code Execution bug found in Popular Node.js changelog library (I go through the code)
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TLS 1.1 is Dead … Well Almost! thanks to Chrome 84 - (Deep Dive Analysis)
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MongoDB and ElasticSearch Clusters WIPED! The Meow attack and how Backend Engineers can prevent it
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MariaDB vs MySQL SSD NVMe vs SATA Performance - Discussions on the Percona Benchmark
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Dropbox migrates to Envoy from NginX - Let us discuss
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How the Twitter Hack really happened? How they got caught and can Homomorphic Encryption help?
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Chrome Blocks Downloads For Files Hosted on HTTP (insecure) URLs - GREAT CHANGE!
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FireFox Changes to SameSite Cookie Default Behavior Following Chrome’s footsteps - Great Change
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Tech Support Scammers are actually Smart Engineers, Annoying but Smart
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WOW! China Blocks TLS 1.3 with ESNI - Let us discuss
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Content Security Policy Can be bypassed in Chrome?
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Critical Bug in Jenkins - This is why Building a Web Server is Hard
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They Web Scraped 235 MILLION YouTube, Instagram and TikTok Accounts and Left their Database Exposed
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Chrome is enabling RAW TCP AND UDP Connections! Let us discuss
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Windows 95 is 25 Years Old Today and I am feeling nostalgic, let us discuss
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Inefficient Code in Chrome puts ENORMOUS load on DNS Roots Just for a pretty UX, let us discuss...
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A SameSite Cookie Exception was made to avoid Redirect Loop in Single Sign-On (SSO) Let us Discuss
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Cloudflare fixes a HUGE limitation in HTTP/2 upload implementation in NGINX - Let us discuss
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Doordash moves their Backend to Apache Kafka from RabbitMQ, VERY interesting! Let us discuss it!
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WOW! HTTP/2 Clear Text (h2c) Smuggling is a SERIOUS flaw and very easy to Execute, Let us discuss!
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Unimog - The Cloudflare Kernel Layer 4 Load Balancer is an interesting Tech. let us discuss!
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Another Unsecured ElasticSearch Cluster Exposed with 900GB worth of private data, let us discuss
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My Opinion on the “Stop Using React” Article
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GoogleBot Crawler Now Uses HTTP/2 to Index the Web, Let us discuss how this affects our Back-end ..
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Casting to your TV, Roku or Game Console? Watch out for this major DANGEROUS FireFox bug!
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Russia Follows in China’s footsteps and attempts to block TLS 1.3, ESNI, DoH & DoT, let us discuss
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Microsoft 365 Outage, What Happened and What Caused it? Let us discuss
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HTTPS and HTTP/3 negotiations are now Faster thanks to Cloudflare, RIP HSTS, Let us Discuss
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We Need to Discuss the Microservices Madness - Scaling with Common Sense
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Why Discord Moved from MongoDB to Apache Cassandra, Let us Discuss
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PostgreSQL 13 Has Some Performance Boosts! Let us discuss it!
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Discord Backend Architecture Discussion
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Uber’s new Backend Architecture for Processing Payments
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A New Attack Allows Access to any TCP/UDP service on a Machine behind NAT - NAT Slipstreaming
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Chrome Dedicated ROOT Certificate Store is Coming Soon, What Does That Mean To You? let us discuss
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Installing This Twilio Malware NPM Package Opens a Backdoor on Your Developer Machine
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Facebook Moves their Backend and Frontend to QUIC, Wasn’t smooth but it Paid Off, let us discuss
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Opening Old Wounds - Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL
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HTTP/2 Push is Being Removed, let us discuss
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Can't connect to port 5060 anymore? Here is why
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Denial of Service through DNS request Discovered in Node JS (CVE-2020-8277)
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Is FireFox HTTPS only Mode The death of HSTS?
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DO NOT COMMIT .ENV Files! BotNet Harvesting Credentials and API Keys from Public .ENV files
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Using GitHub Actions? Watch out for this Command Injunction Vulnerability!
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Why Redis Became the Most Popular Database on the Cloud in 2020
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AWS US East-1 Region Experienced Several Outages, What could’ve been the Cause? let us discuss!
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A Detailed Analysis of The Amazon Kinesis US East-1 Outage - AWS Outage Explained
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We Need a Solution to NPM Trojans - post-install hell
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Will AWS Babelfish Succeed in Moving Developers Away from SQL Server to Postgres?
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Meet mySQL RAPID - distributed, in-memory, columnar, query processing engine by ORACLE
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Oblivious DoH (oDOH) Introduces a TLS Terminating Proxy with additional Layer of Encryption
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The Google Outage ( Early report )
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Postgres Instances hacked and used to mine crypto - Let us discuss how is that possible
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The 2020 Google Outage (Detailed Analysis)
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My Thoughts on the Clever and Dangerous SolarWinds Hack
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The Slack Outage (Early Report & Speculations)
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Have a Node JS Server? Update it Now!
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WhatsApp’s Ultimatum and New Policy - What WhatsApp Sees And Collects (In Details)
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Apache Kafka 2.7 is One Step Closer to Killing ZooKeeper
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HAProxy is closer to QUIC and HTTP/3 Support
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The 2021 Slack Outage - Detailed analysis of what happened to Slack on Jan 4th 2021
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Chrome deprecates FTP for good
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10 YouTube Backend, Protocols, Networking, Database Channels to Follow in 2021 (I watch them all)
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Brave is Decentralized - Users can Consume and HOST IPFS Decentralized Web Content through Brave
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He found a way to Hijack Private Google Docs Screenshots with a clever hack - Google paid him $4000
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This YouTube Backend API Leaks Private Videos - Google paid $5000 to the researcher who found it
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This Certificate Authority is being banned from Google
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70GB of Unused Bloated Index Space Freed on Postgres, Here is how they did it
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UUIDs are Bad for Performance in MySQL - Is Postgres better? Let us Discuss
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A Bug in Stripe Caused by AWS Lambda Serverless Design (Container re-use)
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SRE changes HAProxy config, Breaks the Backend and troubleshoots it like a champ - lets discuss
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cURL creator @DanielStenberg threatened - The entitlement towards OSS needs to STOP!
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Firefox State Partitioning in Cookies Might End Evil Tracking forever
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3 New Ways to Crash your NodeJS Server, Update Node JS today! (Feb 2021 Security Update)
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S3 compliant MinIO Suffers a Server Side Request Forgery vulnerability, lets discuss
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Chrome 90 will use HTTPS (port 443) by Default - Let us discuss
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Did you get logged out of GitHub? - Backend Race condition Bug discussion
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Fire Destroys Datacenter in France, Disaster Recovery is critical, let us discuss the OVHcloud Fire
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Researcher bypasses Azure and Cloudflare Reverse Proxy Security - HTTP/2 Smuggling (h2c)
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High severity flaw can crash your WebServer when using OpenSSL - Let us discuss
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PHP’s Git Server hacked - Two Remote Code executions added to the source code, let us discuss
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cURL TLS 1.3 session ticket proxy host mixup Vulnerability
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DNS issue impacting multiple Microsoft services on April’s fool day (with Bonus content)
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Microsoft Just Had its Third Major Outage ( April-1st-2021 )
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Here is what caused the Hack to PHP Source Code git Server
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Here is what caused the Hack to PHP Source Code git Server
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A Look into Modern Leaky Abstractions - Postgres, MySQL, HTTP/2, TCP, ORMs GraphQL, N+1, Axios, git
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These New WhatsApp Vulnerabilities Can Leak Images, Voice Notes, and Chat by Opening an HTML message
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North Korean Hackers Hide Malicious Code within BMP image, Goes Undetected by AntiVirus software
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The Auth0 Outage 4/20/2021 (Early report)
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Let us discuss the Linux Kernel community and University of Minnesota situation
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This Python And NodeJS IP Address Validation Vulnerability is Severe, Lets discuss
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CLEVER! Hackers Sneak Trojan through PING
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Auth0 MongoDB Gets Overloaded Causes an Major Outage
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If you are using Let’s Encrypt Watch out for this (September 30 2021)
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QUIC is FINALLY a Standard
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13 TB of Dominos Pizza India customers’ data leaked and put on the Dark Web
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The Backend of this Fintech Exposed Users' Personal Information - The Klarna Leak (Full Report)
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Facebook Awarded him $30,000 for Finding a Critical Instagram Bug
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SSH wormable, written in Bash, updates itself and hard to detect. The DarkRadiation ☢️ Ransomware
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Microsoft Awards them $20k for finding one of a kind XSS bug in Edge
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One regular expression can crash NodeJS
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Why the Internet went dark for two hours - Let's discuss the Akamai outage
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Spook.js - This will bloat Chrome even more | The Backend Engineering Show
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NodeJS introduces HTTPS Import from URLs
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Accessing SSDs through TCP - NVMe over TCP
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Should NodeJS support HTTP/3?
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Why the next Chrome version will break websites
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Google thinks Linux is slow to reboot, so they patched it
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Linux Big TCP might change the game for Google (and other cloud providers)
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YugabyteDB supports read committed isolation
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Amazon Aurora Supports Postgres 14
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This decades old Linux function is now 4 times faster
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nulls are weird, Postgres15 makes them slightly better
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This dangerous OpenSSL vulnerability can easily be triggered | CVE-2022-2274 Explained
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ByteDance makes Linux kernel reboots faster
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