Reverse HTTP proxy is a single point of entrance to all the HTTP traffic which makes it a good place to perform some additional tasks and checks and one of them is limiting access to certain services. Some services might not have their own access control systems and some services might benefit from an additional level of protection.

I'm not a server guy, but I had to deploy a few websites and web services recently, and it has been an interesting journey so far. I have to ask myself many questions, such as how do I know that my servers are secure? That's an important question but security is such a vague term that it makes it hard to grasp and answer this question confidently.

The world is going cashless, and I don't think that anything can reverse this trend. I'm not even going to list all the benefits of going cashless because they are obvious. Instead, I'm going to cover the dark side of a cashless world.

I'm happy to see that privacy have become a hot topic recently. More and more people want to know who holds their data and what kind of data is it. Many Email providers use the data they hold to maximize their profits at their users' expense.