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Exploring Crystal

What is Crystal?
Crystal is statically compiled language built on LLVM. It is inspired by Ruby (and the syntax feels like ruby)…

In the first part of this article, I went through the steps of installing Nginx and Shibboleth. Now you have a web server serving up front ends securely. The next part is handing JSON Web Tokens, or JWT’s, with the content so the client can relay these to…

At the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine, we have been using CuWebAuth to do authentication and authorization. As described in https://medium.com/cuc4/using-json-web-tokens-with-cuwebauth-79aab6c3396d, we prodded Apache into generating a JWT (JSON Web Token) that…

Secret Management in Docker is one of those things. Docker is just new enough that idiomatic approaches are difficult to source. There are the occasional stack overflow questions or git issues list discussing secret…

As we have been helping folks move their applications to AWS we have found many of the services to be provided to be amazing. We started using DynamoDB, the AWS manage NoSQL database, to store application data in. The story behind DynamoDB is fascinating as it is one of the key building blocks…