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Thanks to everyone who submitted to the Secure Developer Challenge for May 2021!
For this month’s challenge (https://go.shiftleft.io/developer-challenge-05-2021), we asked you to identify which of these statements about HTTP security headers are false:… Continue reading Secure Developer Challenge May 2021
What you need to know about CSP, a fundamental defense mechanism of the Internet.
Photo by Florian Olivo on Unsplash
There are many decisions that go into the process of creating a secure website. One of these decisions is selecting which HTTP security… Continue reading Intro to the Content Security Policy (CSP)
At its Octane21 conference, Okta, the popular authentication and identity platform, today announced a new — and free — developer edition that features fewer limitations and support for significantly more monthly active users than its current free plan. The new ‘Okta Starter Developer Edition,’ as it’s called, allows developers to scale up to 15,000 monthly […] Continue reading Okta launches a new free developer plan
Hasura, a service that provides developers with an open-source engine that provides them a GraphQL API to access their databases, today announced that it has raised a $25 million Series B round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. Previous investors Vertex Ventures US, Nexus Venture Partners, Strive VC and SAP.iO Fund also participated in this round. […] Continue reading Hasura raises $25 million Series B and adds MySQL support to its GraphQL service
In June, 1995, Rasmus Lerdorf made an announcement on a Usenet group. You can still read it.
Announcing the Personal Home Page Tools (PHP Tools) version 1.0.
These tools are a set of small tight cgi binaries written in C.
Today, twenty five years on, PHP is about as ubiquitous …read more
Continue reading Does PHP Have A Future, Or Are Twenty Five Years Enough?
Hasura is an open-source engine that can connect to PostgreSQL databases and microservices across hybrid- and multi-cloud environments and then automatically build a GraphQL API backend for them, making it easier for developers to then build their own data-driven applications on top of this unified API . For a while now, the San Francisco-based startup […] Continue reading Hasura launches managed cloud service for its open-source GraphQL API platform
Netlify, the startup that wants to kill the web server and change the way developers build websites, announced a $53 million Series C today. EQT Ventures Fund led the round with contributions from existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins and newcomer Preston-Werner Ventures. Under the terms of the deal Laura Yao, deal partner and […] Continue reading Netlify nabs $53M Series C as micro services approach to web development grows
Recommendations cover areas including security and privacy while listing alternatives to free online services that slurp your users’ data. Continue reading EDRi’s guidelines call for more ethical websites
In an age of flashy jQuery scripts and bulky JavaScript front-end frameworks, loading a “lite” website is like a breath of fresh air. When most of us think of lightweight sites, though, our mind goes to old-style pure HTML and CSS sites or the intentionally barebones websites of developers and …read more
Continue reading Building a Low-Tech Website for Energy Efficiency
API and microservices platform Kong today announced that it has acquired Insomnia, a popular open-source tool for debugging APIs. The company, which also recently announced that it had raised a $43 million Series C round, has already put this acquisition to work by using it to build Kong Studio, a tool for designing, building and […] Continue reading Kong acquires Insomnia, launches Kong Studio for API development