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Archive: 2021
Public API vs Private API: Understanding Application Interfaces
Explore the critical differences between public and private APIs in iOS, Android, and web applications. Learn when to use each approach and how to design robust application interfaces.
Certificate Pinning: The Double-Edged Sword of TLS Security
Certificate pinning promises enhanced security but introduces operational risks. Understand what to pin, how to implement it, and why it might break your application.
Mobile App Security Essentials: Protecting Data in Users' Pockets
Mobile devices store sensitive data and connect to critical services. Learn essential security architecture principles to protect your users from data breaches, reverse engineering, and runtime attacks.
Defanging URLs: A Simple Security Practice for Sharing Threats
Defanging URLs prevents accidental clicks on malicious links when sharing threat intelligence. Learn why security teams use this practice and how to implement it.
Mobile App Code Security: Implementation Patterns That Actually Work
Implementing mobile security requires more than theory. Learn practical code patterns for secure storage, obfuscation, runtime protection, and authentication that you can deploy today.
Jenkins Credentials Exposure: The Hidden Security Risks in CI/CD Pipelines
Jenkins credentials can leak through build logs, script consoles, and API endpoints. Understand how credentials get exposed and how to protect your CI/CD pipeline.
DRY Principle: When Code Duplication Becomes Technical Debt
Don't Repeat Yourself sounds simple, but knowing when to apply it requires judgment. Understand when duplication is harmful, when it's acceptable, and how premature abstraction can be worse than duplication.
Open-Closed Principle: Extending Without Breaking
Software entities should be open for extension but closed for modification. This principle promises flexibility without fragility, yet developers struggle with when to apply abstraction and when it becomes over-engineering.
Single Responsibility Principle: The Foundation of SOLID Design
A class should have only one reason to change. This simple statement forms the foundation of SOLID design, yet developers struggle with what constitutes a 'single responsibility' and when to split classes.
Interface Segregation Principle: No Client Should Be Forced to Depend on Unused Methods
Clients should not be forced to depend on interfaces they don't use. This principle prevents fat interfaces that burden implementers with unnecessary methods, yet developers routinely create bloated abstractions that violate it.
Dependency Inversion Principle: High-Level Modules Should Not Depend on Low-Level Modules
High-level modules should not depend on low-level modules. Both should depend on abstractions. This principle inverts traditional dependency structures, yet developers routinely create rigid architectures that violate it.
Liskov Substitution Principle: The Contract You Can't Break
Subtypes must be substitutable for their base types without breaking program correctness. This principle ensures inheritance hierarchies remain sound, yet developers routinely violate it with seemingly innocent design decisions.
Identity Broker: Centralizing Authentication in Distributed Systems
Identity brokers centralize authentication across multiple systems, but implementation choices affect security, performance, and user experience. Understand the patterns, trade-offs, and pitfalls.