Best Practices

Defanging URLs: A Simple Security Practice for Sharing Threats
May 1, 2021 Cybersecurity

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.

Apr 4, 2021 Cybersecurity

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.

OAuth 2.0 Security Best Practices - From Design to Implementation
Dec 25, 2020 Cybersecurity

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 vulnerabilities—before attackers exploit them.

Application Logging Best Practices - From Design to Production
Nov 3, 2020 Development

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 fixes—before you write a single line of code.

Monitoring Best Practices - Why Observability Beats Guesswork
Oct 1, 2020 Development

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-solving—and why observability is your system's health insurance.

Test Doubles: Understanding Mock, Stub, Fake, and Spy
Dec 2, 2018 Development

Test Doubles: Understanding Mock, Stub, Fake, and Spy

Master the art of test doubles by understanding the differences between mocks, stubs, fakes, and spies—essential patterns for writing effective, maintainable unit tests.

Dec 10, 2002 Architecture

IT Naming Conventions: Building Clarity into Infrastructure

Naming conventions transform infrastructure chaos into clarity. From hostnames to database tables, discover why systematic naming matters and how to build conventions that scale across environments, networks, and cloud platforms.