Posts in category: engineering
Engineering as a career
Every year around this time, a new batch of high school students finally confront the looming question in front of them - which course of study to pursue moving forward? (Sure, there is that 10% who has it all figured out for the next decade, but lets stick to the...
Thoughts on site speed, or why do sites slow down
We so often face the scenario when we wanted to look up something on our mobile phones, but gave up halfway when the site was too slow to load. In a world where more traffic is moving to mobile from traditional desktop browsers, loading speed has become a major factor...
CloudBleed, and how you are impacted
The latest story doing the rounds on Hacker News is how Cloudflare, one of the leading edge CDN providers, was susceptible to a vulnerability that dumped a massive amount of user credentials and other private data onto publicly accessible search engines. According to the same story, this vulnerability was first...