Recently while migrating a complex Japanese API to AWS, I had to investigate an empty session issue that forced me to review my software engineering notes on HTTP Sessions before moving forward with the implementation of a sticky session in
Emmanuel Eliason Armstrong
A collection of 6 posts
Docker Security 101: Hardening guide
Hardening your container hosts’ configurations is essential and it involves applying certain configuration steps above and beyond the default settings
Configuration Standard for IIS
IIS, the webserver that’s available as a role in Windows Server, is also one of the most used web server platforms on the internet. Hardening IIS involves applying certain configuration steps above and beyond the default settings. The default
How to Implement HTTPOnly and Secure Cookie in Web Servers.
Session cookies are often seen as one of the biggest problems for security and privacy with HTTP, yet oftentimes, it’s necessary to utilize it to maintain state in modern web applications. By default, it is insecure and vulnerable to
From Monolith to Microservice Architecture on Kubernetes
With more and more big companies accepting the Kubernetes model as the best way to run applications, it’s becoming the standard way of running distributed apps both in the cloud, as well as on local on-premises infrastructure.
Elasticsearch 101: The Basics
Elasticsearch is the living heart of what is today the most popular log analytics platform — The ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana)