Author: ckendrick

There is a kind of “received wisdom” in the industry that highly configurable applications are necessarily slower, because they have to retrieve the configuration information from some database, and then they need a bunch of switching logic to render the view that the user has configured, so that’s slower. This “received wisdom” is dead wrong, as we will demonstrate. Perhaps...

On or around April 26th, Isomorphic’s public-facing web servers were compromised by a well-known government-backed APT (Advanced Persistent Threat – basically a hacking group).   If you are short on time, all you need to know is: no confidential information (such as credit cards or billing details) was stolen, but if you use the same login information for other sites, out of...