Best Practices Are Not Always Best Practices: The Satirical Tale of Code and ContextLet’s get one thing straight: "best practices" are the golden commandments of the tech world. They’re carved into the sacred README of every self-respecting developer, enshrined in blog posts, and hurled at unsuspecting juniors during code reviews. B...Jan 16, 2025·3 min read
Malicious Docker Hub Container Images Used for Cryptocurrency MiningThe increased adoption of containers has given rise to a wide range of potential threats to DevOps pipelines. Many of the attacks we observed involved the abuse of container images to carry out malicious functionalities. In our monitoring of Docker-r...Jun 20, 2023·3 min read
Inside Discord's Message Storage System: A Deep Dive | How Discord Stores Trillions of MessagesExploring the Technology Behind Discord's Trillion-Message Storage SystemMar 15, 2023·3 min read
Why HTTP/3 uses UDP protocol under QUIC instead of TCP?HTTP/3's use of UDP provides several advantages over TCP,including faster connection,better performance on high-latency networks,and improved securityMar 7, 2023·5 min read
Laravel Pipeline Design Pattern ExampleUsing laravel pipelines you can pass an object between several classes in a fluid way to perform any type of task and finally return the resulting value once all the “tasks” have been executed. Larval uses the Pipeline Design Pattern in a couple of p...Sep 15, 2022·5 min read