In this tutorial, I'll talk about how I set up Kafka to provide website analytics and event tracking for a web application. For my use case, I wanted to store and process raw event data in real-time. With Google Analytics, you can't do that. Enter Kafka.W... (more…)

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Niceware words are chosen at random from a list of 65,536 English language words. Each word has 16 bits of entropy. An 8-word random passphrase has 128 bits of entropy which is strong enough to use for cryptographic keys.

A quick boiler plate to creare a type safe Node server: npx create-express-auth my-app - francemazzi/auth-boiler-plate... (more…)

One of the many best-practices for operating Kubernetes clusters is to frequently perform Kubernetes version upgrades in those clusters. This insures that you'll be running your workload with a version of Kubernetes that contains the latest security fixes... (more…)