Issue #105 · April 1, 2019

Password Managers Under the Hood

“We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works”

Best 7 links of week #13, 2019

Password Managers Under the Hood

Password Managers Under the Hood

We found that in all password managers we examined, trivial secrets extraction was possible from a locked password manager, including the master password in some cases, exposing up to 60 million users that use the password managers in this study…

Articles

Deconstructing the monolith

The interesting journey of Shopify which had one of the biggest Ruby On Rails monolith and slowly transitioned into a more scalable architecture.

WASI: A system interface to run WebAssembly

It should be possible to run WebAssembly outside the web, but in order to do that we need a system interface, for instance, to interact with the filesystem. WASI is here to try to form a standard around this idea.

Fuchsia OS

Fuchsia is a new operative system built by the research department of Google. In this article, you will discover why this OS is different from Linux and what we can expect from the future in case Fuchsia becomes mainstream.

A Complete Beginner's Guide to Vue

Vue.js is a frontend framework that is optimized for progressive integration. This is a tutorial to get you started with this wonderful technology.

Book of the week

NoSQL Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Emerging World of Polyglot Persistence

NoSQL Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Emerging World of Polyglot Persistence

by Pramod J. Sadalage

The need to handle increasingly larger data volumes is one factor driving the adoption of a new class of nonrelational “NoSQL” databases. Advocates of NoSQL databases claim they can be used to build systems that are more performant, scale better, and are easier to program.