Software Development Anti-Patterns: When Good Intentions Lead to Bad Code
Anti-patterns are common solutions that seem reasonable but create more problems than they solve. Learn to recognize and avoid these traps before they sabotage your codebase.
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Preventing Credentials in Git: A Layered Defense Strategy
Prevention beats remediation. Build a multi-layered defense following OWASP DevSecOps principles with pre-commit hooks, secrets scanning, code linting, and automated detection.
Managing Credentials Committed to Git: Recovery and Prevention
Accidentally committed credentials to Git? Learn how to properly remove them, why git history rewriting isn't enough, and how to prevent future leaks.
Programming Paradigms: Choosing the Right Mental Model for Your Problem
Programming paradigms shape how we think about and solve problems. Understanding their strengths, trade-offs, and appropriate use cases leads to better software 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Enterprise Transparent Proxy - What Your Company Can See
Your company's transparent proxy can decrypt your HTTPS traffic. Learn how SSL interception works, why your browser shows valid certificates, and how to protect sensitive information.
OAuth 2.0 Security Best Practices - From Design to Implementation
OAuth 2.0 isn't just about getting access tokens. Learn how to design secure authorization flows that protect user data and prevent common vulnerabilitiesābefore attackers exploit them.
Application Logging Best Practices - From Design to Production
Logs are your application's black box recorder. Learn how to design logging strategies that turn debugging nightmares into five-minute fixesābefore you write a single line of code.
Monitoring Best Practices - Why Observability Beats Guesswork
You can't fix what you can't see. Discover how proper monitoring transforms reactive firefighting into proactive problem-solvingāand why observability is your system's health insurance.
Design Thinking - A Human-Centered Approach to Problem Solving
Design thinking isn't just for designersāit's a problem-solving framework that puts humans first. Discover how empathy, experimentation, and iteration can transform how you build products.
Designing CI Pipelines for Enterprise: Building Reliable Automation at Scale
Learn how to design robust CI pipelines for enterprise environments. Explore best practices for scalability, security, and reliability in continuous integration workflows.
CI/CD for Enterprise: The Path to Continuous Excellence
From manual deployments to automated pipelines - discover how CI/CD transforms enterprise software delivery. Learn the principles, practices, and patterns that enable teams to ship faster while maintaining quality.