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In 2022, I helped Ludum Dare, the largest online game jam community, improve their web application and API microservices architecture to be better performing, more secure and more scalable. I outlined the 'why' in a previous blog post and t…
As a Developer Advocate @ Akamai Technologies, I have the rare opportunity to consult and collaborate with companies and their developers worldwide to help improve their tech stack by making their web…
title: Understanding DNS attacks: Identifying and patching vulnerabilities published: true date: 2022-10-26 12:00:00 UTC tags: Vulnerabilities canonical_url: https://snyk.io/blog/dns-attacks-identifyi…
Developing and testing a frontend feature can be difficult, especially when the backend it depends on is not ready. This dependency on a backend API often slows down the development process. In scenar…
First things first, let’s be clear that this is NOT a new Log4Shell or Spring4Shell vulnerability. Although it is a remote code execution issue, the impact is neither as severe nor as easily exploitab…
When developers need to handle URLs in different forms for different purposes — such as browser history navigation, anchored targets, query parameters, and so on — we often turn to Java. However, its …
title: Improving code quality with linting in Python published: true date: 2022-10-12 13:21:46 UTC tags: ApplicationSecurity canonical_url: https://snyk.io/blog/improving-code-quality-with-linting-in-…
Data Transfer Objects (DTOs) in Java are objects that transport data between subsystems. It is an enterprise design pattern to aggregate data. The main purpose is to reduce the number of system calls …
From Andres Haro, Snyk Ambassador_ Security has been a concern in the tech industry for years now. However, not a lot of companies follow their own protocols or guides when it comes to securing code.…
In a previous article, I wrote about how — and why — you might want to use the Google Open Source group’s Jib tool to build your Java application container images. Jib builds slim, JVM-based, OCI-comp…
