Web Accessibility (often stylized “a11y”), is the practice of ensuring that your websites and web applications are accessible by people with disabilities of many kinds…

It is hard to write 100% holes-free code, no matter how hard you tried. Sometimes it is not even your own fault (language implementation, server setups, etc.) and those factor are likely out of your control. That being said, as developers, we should strive to write our code as safe and secure as possible. Here […]

Do you remember the Amazon outage that affected several high-profile customers back in 2011? On April 21st, widely-used sites such as Reddit and Quora were brought down, and many others experienced latency or were knocked offline, too. Early that morning…

Bots are tools that are created to automate tedious processes and reduce work. For example, chatbots automate replies to users for customer support, and search bots are used to populate search results on a Google search. However…

What is an SSL Certificate?

Let’s start with some working definitions of the HTTP and HTTPS protocols. HTTP is the Internet protocol over which data is sent between a browser and a server when they are communicating. HTTPS is the secure counterpart of HTTP…

Nowadays, many API providers support JSONP requests. One reason for this is that most web browsers disable cross-domain requests when using basic Ajax.