2d ago · 8 min read · Before I started building auth into my own projects, I didn't think too deeply about what was happening to passwords behind the scenes. Like most developers, I installed a library, called a hash funct
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May 10, 2025 · 5 min read · When working with large datasets in Apache Spark, a common performance issue is data skew. This occurs when a few keys dominate the data distribution, leading to uneven partitions and slow queries. It mainly happens during operations that require shu...
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Oct 22, 2024 · 2 min read · Goals Understand how bcrypt do ‘salting’ Especially, how it can do salting without storing salt at extra columns dedicated for ‘salt’ Basics Rainbow Table Attack Rainbow Table is a table with various possible passwords and it’s hashes. When attac...
Join discussionJul 13, 2024 · 4 min read · In this tutorial, I will walk through the process of creating a blogging website using Node.js, Express, MongoDB for database storage, JWT tokens for user authentication, and hashing for secure password storage. We'll cover essential backend and fron...
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Jul 12, 2024 · 2 min read · In web applications, securing user passwords is crucial. Hashing and salting are two methods that greatly improve password security by making it harder for hackers to access user credentials. What is Hashing? Hashing turns plain-text passwords into a...
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Feb 20, 2024 · 8 min read · Apache Spark is a powerful open-source distributed computing system known for its speed, ease of use, and sophisticated analytics capabilities. It is widely used for big data processing and analytics due to its ability to handle large-scale data acro...
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Oct 30, 2023 · 7 min read · Hashing Hashing is a fundamental concept in computer science and cybersecurity. Hashing is a process of transforming a string of data characters into another form, often shorter and fixed in length. This transformation is generally irreversible and d...
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