PD#594 Digital signatures and how to avoid them

Digital signatures and how to avoid them
10 minutes by Neil Madden

This article discusses the limitations and potential misuses of digital signatures in cryptography. It argues that many use cases for digital signatures would be better served by interactive identification protocols.

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How Discord Reduced Websocket Traffic by 40%
14 minutes by Austin Whyte

How Discord rolled out zstandard and other improvements across our gateway cluster to reduce the amount of bandwidth that’s used by their clients.

Why Payments Engineers Should Avoid State Machines
8 minutes by Alvaro Duran

Event-driven money software is replayable and pull-based. Why are state machines still prevalent in payments?

Rearchitecting: Redis to SQLite
12 minutes by Michael Buckbee

This article discusses Wafris' decision to migrate from Redis to SQLite for their Rails middleware client. The change was prompted by deployment issues and the need to simplify the user experience. Benchmarking showed SQLite outperformed Redis in their specific use case, offering about 3x speed improvement locally.

What I tell people new to on-call
9 minutes by Nicole Tietz

Nicole emphasizes the importance of triage over heroism, calling for backup when needed, maintaining clear communication, keeping detailed notes, and learning from the experience. The article also stresses the importance of self-care, methodical problem-solving, and maintaining a positive attitude during on-call shifts.

And we’ll finish with a pretty nifty working Turing machine.

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