#179 – October 02, 2016
I think many of us are not using SVG to its full potential. I often see SVG used as an alternative image format or as a simple solution for icons, and whilst it’s great for these things, it’s also a lot more than that. SVG can solve problems that HTML and CSS alone can’t.
Pixels and voxels, the long answer
I get the question. Society serves you things like the movie posters for Pixels and you are genuinely confused. Is it a pixel? Is it a voxel? Is it a bird? Is it a plane? They sure don’t make it easy on you.
Reshaping web defenses with strict Content Security Policy
Cross-site scripting — the ability to inject undesired scripts into a trusted web application — has been one of the top web security vulnerabilities for over a decade.
Over the last decade we've developed and refined a number of techniques that allow a database design to evolve as an application develops. This is a very important capability for agile methodologies. The techniques rely on applying continuous integration and automated refactoring to database development, together with a close collaboration between DBAs and application developers. The techniques work in both pre-production and released systems, in green field projects as well as legacy systems.
Debugging PostgreSQL performance, the hard way
Recently, we found ourselves upgrading the PostgreSQL database hardware behind our Content API pretty often. On one hand, some of this was expected - as within just one and a half years, we went from indexing just a handful of streaming providers in three countries to indexing 70 streaming providers in 17 countries on a daily base. Meanwhile, on the traffic side we were growing from zero to several million active users per month.