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The OWASP Top 10 - A closer view on Web Applications security

Introduction The OWASP Top 10 serves as a foundational guide for developers and web application security, offering a widely accepted overview of the paramount security threats facing web applications. Enterprises are advised to embrace this resource and initiate measures to mitigate these risks in their web applications. Incorporating the OWASP

Improve testing with AAA

A test is a procedure that assesses a behavior to determine if it is functioning correctly. Some of the most common types of tests include unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests. However, they all serve the same basic purpose: to test something and report whether it is a success

🏃‍♀️ Navigating Big O: A Journey from O(1) to O(n!)

Welcome back to the continuation of our series on Big O! If this is your first blog entry and you're interested in this topic (often out of necessity due to interviews, but interested nonetheless to improve...) you've probably asked yourself some of these questions: ❓ How do software engineers or programmers,

🦁 Conquering the Big-O Beast

Now that we have a basic understanding of Big-O notation thanks to the previous post (which I invite you to review), we can start looking for slightly more costly calculations to understand how algorithms are evaluated broadly. Imagine you're organizing a large party and you have a guest list! Each

Maximizing Time Optimization while Working Remotely: Organization for a Balanced Life

As software developers, you know how crucial it is to find the right balance between work and personal life. It's easy to fall into the trap of working non-stop, but remember that it's also important to take care of yourselves and enjoy other aspects of life. We don't want you

⏳ Algorithmic Complexity

📖 Introduction Designing and building algorithms is an integral part of software development. While the primary goal of every algorithm is to solve a particular problem, it is essential to consider how an algorithm performs its work and how many resources it needs to do it, as this will ultimately transform

SOLID principles and why they are so relevant

Motivation Throughout our lives as developers, we surely go through several projects, which many times are not in the best way and it is very difficult to address and improve them. Many of these problems are often related to the approach taken by developers in that project. Ideally, all developers

How to Paginate an API

When building an API, it is important to consider how to handle large datasets. API Pagination is a common way to break up large datasets into smaller chunks, or "pages", allowing the API to return a manageable amount of data per request. Large companies such as Twitter, Slack or Github