People often think of encryption as something expensive that should be used only when absolutely necessary. The assumption is that encryption burns a lot of CPU, adds overhead, and risks increasing latency. Because of that, teams sometimes choose to skip extra encryption, even when it would be the smart thing to do. Public/private key cryptography…

In programming, we often become obsessed with reuse and with only having one of everything. The ideal is: define it once, reuse it everywhere, and then you only have to change it in one place. But this can easily go too far, to a point where it’s not even smart from a software perspective. Everything…

When people think about the cost of software, they usually picture developers writing code. That’s where the action is: new features, pull requests, tests. But if you look at the total cost of a software system or app over its lifetime, the picture changes. Coding is just one part of a much larger whole – and often…