HiI could not find any definitive material about this topic, but when is it safe to use weak random number generators?I would say: * Generating random passwords - no * Generating salt - no * Jitter in a Retry Strategy - yes Anything else?What rules can we apply here?
I love Postgres.
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Are you monitoring your machine to check if it is not starving on cpu?
Re the queries, we have been using pgbadger to collect metrics about the usage of the dB and the slowest queries by type. This is helpful as it guides where you should put your efforts.
https://github.com/darold/pgbadger/blob/master/README.md
This is very good ref about scaling Postgres.
https://pyvideo.org/pycon-ca-2017/postgres-at-any-scale.html
Security is a quality that is hard to measure in my opinion. Is using good standards and industry standard tools enough to prevent bad actors to exploit your system? Oauth2, hashed and salted passwords....Are there any certifications that big companies care about?
Not sure if they are accepting new applicants, but you can try. Also, you can try to find the assignments online.
I love Hashicorp products/tools. They are simple and intuitive to use/configure and they do one thing very well. I love the fact that each product is usually a single binary that is the client/server and command line tool. What change are the parameters passed to the binary when executing it.I have experience with Consul, Vault and Nomad.Due to security and performance reasons, we need to have...
- Is it still relevant?- How is the adoption of GraphQL compared to REST APIs?- What popular services are providing a GraphQL endpoint?- When would you use It aside from the cases you want to optimize the access to your service (mobile)?- Are you using in your projects? What work, and what doesn't work?
Where can I find information about video codecs, containers?The basics, existing standards and properties and comparison of different codecs and file formats.
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