The Weekly Dev - 202304

Evil Features

Technology is not immune to fashion.

Tools come and go, some methodologies are hot and everyone wants them, some other are considered boring and old, even if they happen to sustain the whole digital world.

On the other side, it's just too easy to fall in love with some hip new framework that looks cool in your web pages but will ruin you, your business and sell out your users.

Echoing Conway's law, our weaknesses as humans are not that unlike the weaknesses we end up pushing into the technologies we use.

One of such examples is the fascination of XML everywhere in the early 2000.

Boring Security

XML Security in Java

Source: semgrep.dev

Simplify Routing with Subnetting: How to Organize Your Network Into Smaller Subnets

Source: pluralsight.com

Distributed Systems

Reverse proxying a sub-domain via Apache

Source: eli.thegreenplace.net



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