A collective list of JSON APIs for use in web development. Source: toddmotto/public-apis: A collective list of public JSON APIs for use in web development.

Lambda expressions are a very powerful .NET feature that can significantly simplify your code in particular cases. Unfortunately, convenience has its price. Wrong usage of lambdas can significantly impact app performance. Let’s look at what exactly can go wrong.The trick is in how lambdas work. To implement a lambda (which... [Read More]

Vault can store your existing secrets, or it can dynamically generate new secrets to control access to third-party resources or provide time-limited credentials for your infrastructure. All data that Vault stores is encrypted. Any dynamically-generated secrets are associated with leases, and Vault will automatically revoke these secrets after the lease... [Read More]

“The key abstraction of information in REST is a resource. Any information that can be named can be a resource: a document or image, a temporal service (e.g. “today’s weather in Los Angeles”), a collection of other resources, a non-virtual object (e.g. a person), and so on. In other words,... [Read More]

If your headless, or remote, VPS is visible over the Internet, you should use public key authentication instead of passwords, if at all possible. This is because SSH keys provide a more secure way of logging in compared to using a password alone. While a password can eventually be cracked... [Read More]