The Rietta Blog
Cybersecurity, software, and the law between them.
Since 2005, this blog has covered cybersecurity, software development, and cloud migration, a resource for anyone staying informed about these areas.
09/21/2014
Software security is a moral duty
by Frank Rietta
Robust security is often put off because prevention costs are felt upfront and breach costs come at an uncertain future time. But there is another way.
09/19/2014
Learn how Upworthy scaled a Ruby on Rails application to serve massive traffic
by Frank Rietta
Upworthy's backend is built on Ruby on Rails with an effective use of the Fastly CDN to deliver very high performance at scale.
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07/27/2014
New OpenPGP Key, 0xC004BAE3 (2014)
by Frank Rietta
After 11 years, I am moving my OpenPGP/GnuPG key pair from 1024-bit to 4096-bit RSA. The new key ID is 0xC004BAE3. Please review the fingerprint and update.
07/07/2014
Introduction to OpenPGP: Decrypt this Message
by Frank Rietta
In part one of Introduction to OpenPGP, learn to password protect a file with GnuPG, which supports symmetric encryption and its stronger asymmetric mode.
06/05/2014
What a Ruby developer can do to help prevent a Data Breach - 2014
by Frank Rietta
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05/30/2014
Humana data breach in Atlanta for an unencrypted USB disk
by Frank Rietta
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05/29/2014
Avoid thrashing to release your project on time and budget
by Frank Rietta
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