Blogs

In a recent project we were required to move our static content files to some CDN because servers were getting millions of hits every hour and many of the resources on the main page were static (like JS/CSS/etc). I hope most of the people understand CDN already. So, I’m not covering any information on CDN […]

Last week, I got into a situation where I had to scale the application to store unpredictable user sessions in Memcached. The vertical scaling could be extended up to a limit but to meet the application requirements, I had to go with horizontal scaling. AWS does not provide any service to autoscale Memcached nodes according to […]

What is Mobile Automation Testing? Mobile Automated testing provides a mechanism to consistently repeat a test procedure and verify application results. It can be effective both for regression testing as well during development. Testing mobile applications is different and more complex than testing traditional desktop and web applications. Prerequisites for Mobile Automation Testing on Windows […]

Being a technology focused company, TO THE NEW has always made its presence felt in major conferences around the world. This time, it was X0RC0NF in Cochin, India. I was invited to present my talk there and attend the conference as a speaker. The topic of my talk was “Anatomizing online payment systems: hack to […]

Digital innovation has been evolving and growing in the financial space with time. It is no secret that the financial companies today see digital presence as a key component to their company’s success. Customers can now manage their finances from anywhere and at anytime using these digital offerings. But, this raises a serious issue. With […]

Hackers and cyber criminals identify E-commerce sites as a source of information, such as credit cards and other PII (Personally identifiable information). To protect customers, it’s necessary to know how to protect the application and the sensitive customer data it has. All this involves user’s trust and assurance on the brand and yes, it is at […]

CHEF is the most popular configuration management tool in the market these days as CHEF turns infrastructure into code and you can do almost anything using it. Recipes are the heart of CHEF. OpsWorks has been gaining a lot of momentum for last few months, the major factor being its support for CHEF. So, in this […]

This blog post is about using docker-compose, a tool provided by docker to define and run multi container application using a single command. It uses a docker-compose.yml file as default input file. I got a use case which was to run a Nodejs application behind a Nginx acting as a reverse proxy in two different […]

A very basic migration flow looks as follows: In this scenario, you have a CMS(that could be Sitecore, Drupal, WordPress or any other CMS) which has source content that needs to be migrated to AEM. To achieve this, we typically need to do following things: Get content from source CMS in any format(XML, CSV, etc) […]

In my previous blog on Ithemes Security, we went through Dashboard, Configuration and Global Settings. In this second part of the blog series,  A detailed understanding of sections 404 Detection, Away Mode, Banned Users will be covered. 404 Detection Hackers are always looking for vulnerabilities that can be exploited. Some vulnerabilities can be found as […]

In d3.js we use Time Scale on an axis, generally x-axis, to represent time in charts. To simplify manipulation of iteration over time intervals, D3 provides a handful of utilities in addition to time scale and time format. d3.time.scale() creates a time scale with some domain and range values, the time scale also provides suitable […]

Personally I don’t think there any best & worst practices exists in this globe to complete a task no matter in which field you belong to, in my view it’s your strong basic knowledge that encourage you to complete a task in a different way and that different way of completing any task using your […]