Ian KipronoinStackademic10 Points About JWTs and Their Role in AuthenticationJWT is a standard that defines a compact and self-contained way for securely transmitting information between parties as a JSON Object.2 min read·May 25, 2024----
Ian KipronoinStackademicWhy Did We Need HTTP/2 When HTTP/1.1 Was Just Fine?HTTP/1.1 was just… fine, it powered the World Wide Web for almost two decades. So there must have been a reason why we needed HTTP/2…3 min read·May 25, 2024----
Ian KipronoinStackademicGuidelines For Building Software Systems that work well.Software systems are designed and made by people. People are also prone to making mistakes and being unreliable. Below is a guideline that…2 min read·May 19, 2024----
Ian KipronoinStackademicRules to Follow to Design a Good Relational DatabaseTo design a good relational Database, there are series of rules and conditions that need to be followed in order to achieve exceptional…3 min read·May 16, 2024--1--1
Ian KipronoinStackademic10 Things to Understand about DatabasesNot to start a war with the NoSQL fanatics, however before jumping to using Distributed Databases, it is good to understand fundamentals on…·2 min read·May 13, 2024----
Ian KipronoinStackademicStatic stability trick to High Availability.High availability in layman’s language refers to how a system or a service remains operational and accessible for a high percentage of the…·2 min read·May 11, 2024----
Ian KipronoinStackademicCheatsheet for Your Next System Design Interview.I have had several System design Interviews, and like everything in life, the more you do it, the better you get at it. I have seven…2 min read·May 5, 2024----
Ian KipronoinStackademicConcurrency and Parallelism ExplainedSee, during my early career days, I faced a tough time trying to understand what concurrency and parallelism meant. This article should…2 min read·May 5, 2024--1--1
Ian KipronoinStackademicWhy You Probably Need a Data Warehouse in Your DatabaseBig companies, generating millions of data records daily, have to be creative and mend traditional rules. The relational database paradigm…2 min read·Apr 29, 2024----
Ian KipronoinStackademicHow to Enable Continuous Integration with Pull Requests?With pull requests, we lost the ability to have a proper continuous integration process, in a way that we delayed integration due to code…2 min read·Apr 27, 2024----