Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Sep 12, 2022 | DEVOPS, SECURITY
With HTTP REST APIs serving as the backbone of modern web applications, securing those APIs presents a critical challenge for organizations. APIs are typically designed to be discoverable, self-documenting, and easily consumed by a range of programming languages, and...
Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Aug 22, 2022 | BASICS, LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING
If you host dozens of web services that reside at various subdomains, TCP ports, and paths, then migrating them to live under a single address could simplify how clients access them and make your job of managing access easier. It would mean moving from a hodgepodge of...
Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Aug 12, 2022 | SECURITY, SSL
An application programming interface (API) provides access to the features of a business application, but with the visual elements stripped away. By using APIs, devices like tablets, self-service kiosks, point-of-sale terminals, and robotic sensors can connect up to...
Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Aug 3, 2022 | BASICS, LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING
Developing a strategy for collecting application-level logs necessitates stepping back and looking at the big picture. Engineers developing the applications may only see logging at its ground level: the code that writes the event to the log—for example a function that...
Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Jul 25, 2022 | LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING, RANDOM TIPS, TECH
With HAProxy situated in front of their servers, many people leverage it as a frontline component for enabling extra security and observability for their networks. HAProxy provides a way to monitor the number of TCP connections, the rate of HTTP requests, the number...
