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The Original OTP: Inside the Only Encryption Proven to Be Unbreakable

Nov 25, 2025 · 7 min read · When you hear OTP, the first thing that comes to mind is most likely the authentication mechanism that uses a temporary, single-use code to verify a user’s identity as part of a two-factor security mechanism. However, before that was the “OG” OTP (On...

Load Balancing with Nginx and Docker

Sep 8, 2022 · 5 min read · Introduction Load Balancing in Software Engineering is the process of distributing network traffic across multiple backend servers to prevent a single server from being overloaded. Service availability and response time are greatly improved by spread...

Installing Nginx on Windows

Sep 7, 2022 · 2 min read · Nginx is an open-source software with various use cases some of which include Web Serving, Reverse Proxying, Load Balancing, Caching, Streaming, and more. This is going to be a very short article walking you through the installation and setup of Ngin...

Set Up CockroachDB in your Golang Application

Aug 1, 2022 · 4 min read · CockroachDB is a resilient, distributed SQL database designed to deploy and scale easily and survive hardware and software failures. I'll be walking you through setting up CockroachDB on your local machine and using it in your Golang application. Pre...

Logging in .NET: The Modern Way

Jul 20, 2022 · 4 min read · Still logging to .txt files? In 2022? Come on! Don't laugh, you log to your database and open it everytime you need to check your logs. Well, maybe you can laugh a little because text files? Nah! What if you could log to your database and view your ...