This is unacceptable and the entitlement towards open-source maintains needs to STOP! Danial’s blog https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/02/19/i-will-slaughter-you/ Support curl by becoming a backer https://opencollective.com/curl#backer
Let us go through an absolutely fantastic article and journey of how a single change in HAProxy config drove this SRE into a frenzy to find out what went wrong. A fantastic read. https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2021/01/14/this-sre-attempted-to-roll-out-an-haproxy-change/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin&utm_campaign=blog
From time to time I like to loiter on people’s GitHub Repos look through issues submitted and see if there are interesting hidden gems and bugs that would make a good lesson or learning experience and boy did I find one for you. This bug is caused in stripe-node code in AWS Lambda serverless environment where requests are failing intermittently. We discuss how AWS serverless container re-use can cause this and how stripe solved it. Resources https://github.com/stripe/stripe-node/issues/1040 Inte...
XMPP or the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol originally named Jabber[1]) is an open communication protocol designed for instant messaging (IM), presence information, and contact list maintenance. it is used by almost all large messaging systems such as whatsapp, facebook, google talk and others. In this video we will go through XMPP architecture, explain how it works and then finallly show how to spin up an XMPP chat server and connect to it from node js.
In this video I go over the critical timeouts on a Proxy system such as reverse proxy or load balancer and how can you configure each one to protect against attacks or outages. Nginx and HAProxy just a few proxies that you can configure to be load balancers.
Guys this is absolutely genius and nuts! I have never seen anything like this before. This guy got access to paypal json and saw some private packages.. created public ones with a similar name and then made them do bad things, then thing because firewalls will shut those down.. he used DNS DNS requests are practically safe so firewalls allow them 11:05 chrome root https://youtu.be/qpC1YH0FhuY https://medium.com/@alex.birsan/dependency-confusion-4a5d60fec610...
Reads and Writes don’t have to live in the same database, data model or even the same service. Let us discuss CQRS no separation one service that does read/write partial separation You can keep one service but backend have multiple connections with different users same database full separation Read services / write services two databases OLAP / OLTP Pros scalability security Cons complex and very hard to follow, what we see with microservices.. resources https://martinfowler.com/bliki/CQRS.html ...
In this video, I will discuss the new TLS extension Encrypted Client Hello which is a new mechanism to encrypt the entire client hello, very interesting and elegantly design but I have my few reservations and criticisms. Let us discuss. Intro 0:00 Classic TLS with SNI 7:00 ESNI 9:30 ECH 12:30 Limitations and Problems 21:00 Let's say the backend server hosts example.com with the cert of example.com and let us call this the “real” SNI. To support ECH, the same server should also host a client faci...
MySQL is clustered by default on the primary key which means inserts have to be ordered, let us discuss why UUID (random in nature) has bad performance in MySQL and whether postgres wins here. We will also explain why Sequential Writes are Faster than Random in MYSQL and https://www.percona.com/blog/2019/11/22/uuids-are-popular-but-bad-for-performance-lets-discuss/
This is a very interesting article that I encourage you to read it as it has lots of useful lessons in postgres. Using partial indexes, full vacuum, dropping unused indexes and much more helped this company save 70G worth of disk space. https://hakibenita.com/postgresql-unused-index-size
In this video I discuss my approach of learning new technology and how I break it down so I understand it. Hope it helps
The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a protocol and peer-to-peer network for storing and sharing data in a distributed file system. IPFS uses content-addressing to uniquely identify each file in a global namespace connecting all computing devices. Intro 0:00 Why IPFS? 2:00 Explain the original web model and the limitation * Content addressing instead of location addressing * decentralized content distributed among peers Content 3:30 * Content is hashed as CID * Content is immutable each upda...
It looks like digital certificates and other certificate authorities issued by Spanish certificate authority Camerfirma will stop working in Chrome 90, in April. https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-bans-another-misbehaving-ca-from-chrome/ https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA:Camerfirma_Issues
I explain why and when SELECT * can become expensive.
David Schuts, a security researcher earned $5000 dollars in Google VRP by finding a Backend YouTube API that leaks Private Video Thumbnails. let us discuss how did he do that. Resources https://bugs.xdavidhu.me/google/2021/01/11/stealing-your-private-videos-one-frame-at-a-time/ Twitter @xdavidhu https://twitter.com/xdavidhu
A vulnerability in Google Feedback component in postMessage allowed this security researcher to find a way to hijack private screenshots https://blog.geekycat.in/google-vrp-hijacking-your-screenshots/ https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/postMessage
Brave supports IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) which is a protocol designed to replaced HTTP as a decentralized alternative. This allows users to host and consume Resources https://brave.com/brave-integrates-ipfs/ https://ipfs.io/#how
The current FTP implementation in Google Chrome has no support for encrypted connections (FTPS), nor proxies. Usage of FTP in the browser is sufficiently low that it is no longer viable to invest in improving the existing FTP client. In addition more capable FTP clients are available on all affected platforms. Google Chrome 72+ removed support for fetching document subresources over FTP and rendering of top level FTP resources. Currently navigating to FTP URLs result in showing a directory listi...
On Jan 4th 2021, Slack experienced a global outage that prevented customers from using the service for nearly 5 hours. Slack has released the Root cause analysis incident report which I’m going to summarize in the first part of this video. After that Ill provide a lengthy deep dive of the incident so make sure to stick around for that. If you are new here, I make backend engineering videos and also cover software news, so make sure to Like comment and subscribe if you would like to see more plus...
In this video I go through the new most exciting features in HAProxy, one of my favorite proxies. HAProxy 2.3 adds exciting features such as forwarding, prioritizing, and translating of messages sent over the Syslog Protocol on both UDP and TCP, and OpenTracing SPOA, Stats Contexts, SSL/TLS enhancements, an improved cache, and changes in the connection layer that lay the foundation for support for HTTP/3 / QUIC. Resources https://www.haproxy.com/blog/announcing-haproxy-2-3/ 0:00 Intro 2:00 Conne...
In this video I go through the new features in Apache Kafka 2.7, it is very interesting to see the amount of work Apache Kafka is doing to get closer to removing ZooKeeper * [KAFKA-9893] - Configurable TCP connection timeout and improve the initial metadata fetch * [KAFKA-9915] - Throttle Create Topic, Create Partition and Delete Topic Operations * [KAFKA-10054] - Add TRACE-level end-to-end latency metrics to Streams * [KAFKA-10259] - KIP-554: Add Broker-side SCRAM Config API * [KAFKA-10338] - S...
I discussed this in many of my videos, the need for a database that natively supports a multiplexing protocol such as QUIC, gRPC or HTTP/2 in order to allow multiple isolated clients to make requests to the database without taking the overhead of establishing multiple connections. Resources https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/01/eventstoredb/ https://developers.eventstore.com/clients/dotnet/5.0/streams/#writing-to-a-stream
A lot of you guys ask me this question. “I have experience but not sure how to show it, how do I build my backend portfolio such that I can get hired in my dream job. “ Building a backend portfolio takes time and effort and In this video I will be discussing 9 tools that you can add to your backend portfolio 0:00 Intro Live Projects 1:50 System Design Documents 3:45 Architectural/System Design Diagrams 5:45 UX/UI (in case of frontend) 7:13 Papers 8:30 Books 9:50 Blog articles 10:55 Videos 12:44 ...
WhatApp has updated their terms of usage and privacy policy which caused many users to move to other platforms. This video will be a detailed report of their privacy policy, what they collect and what they can collect and see. https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/privacy-policy https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Image-from-iOS.png cards 1:30 end to end 16:30 Samesite cookie 0:00 WhatsApp New Privacy 4:00 Your Account Information 5:30 Your Messages 12:15 Your Connections 13:00 Autom...
NodeJS Jan 2021 released its security update and its time to go through them! Resources https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/january-2021-security-releases/use-after-free in TLSWrap (High) (CVE-2020-8265) HTTP Request Smuggling in nodejs (Low) (CVE-2020-8287) OpenSSL - EDIPARTYNAME NULL pointer de-reference (CVE-2020-1971)
On Jan 4th 2021 7:14 PST All Slack services went down. This video is an early report of the incident and speculation of what might have caused this outage. We still don’t know what caused the outage, we will wait for the full incident report from slack and I'll make a video once that's up. https://status.slack.com/
The SolarWinds hack is one of the largest highly coordinated and intelligent attempt to hit enterprise companies. In this video, I briefly explain how smart this is.
While working on a Postgres docker container executing some queries I noticed that my index-only scan query is hitting the heap which it shouldn't. After digging deep I found that it's the shared memory that docker allocates by default. Defaults are never enough, very interesting train of thought that I thought I’d share with you The Blog I found that helped me find it https://blog.makandra.com/2018/11/investigating-slow-postgres-index-only-scans/
Let us discuss what I'm excited for in Backend Tech in 2021 and answer your great questions
In this video, I go through my process of how I design and architect full software from A-Z. This is part of a Twitter thread that you guys seem to enjoy so I decided to make a video on the topic. Although the spec I generate is usually Backend oriented this is applicable for all software. Twitter thread https://twitter.com/hnasr/status/1339021983195918337?s=20
