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Recent Articles
Improving Password Security
Passwords are a pivotal tool in customer account security, however they are frequently at risk from “reuse” - people choose one or two passwords and then use them everywhere, which brings a host of security problems…
Determinating a Scavenger Hunt
The Deliveroos rose from the ashes of the experimental fire. Their war to grow the product had raged for decades, but the final battle would not be fought in the future. It would be fought here, in our present. Tonight…
Data Sink
Our applications generate a lot of interesting data, but it’s not always simple to find the right way to collect it. We wanted to make it easier, so we went to the drawing board, and here’s what we’ve come up with.
Other Articles
- How to un-rickroll yourself
- “I assess quality……therefore I am”
- Hackday and the £17 soda
- Every service is an island
- Scaling Rails 3.old
- Optimising Redis storage, part two
- What it’s like to be an Android developer at Deliveroo
- The Unbearable Rightness of Being Wrong (A Programmer's Guide to Sanity)
- What Makes a Good (Tech) Team Great
- Unicorn vs Puma: Rails server benchmarks
- Optimising session key storage in Redis
- Running A/B tests on our hosting infrastructure