Why Your Cloud Bill Keeps Growing (And Why That Might Be Fine): The Jevons Paradox in Cloud Computing

January 21, 2026•Cloud Architecture

The Stateless Lie: How AWS Lambda Finally Learned to Remember

December 26, 2025•Serverless Architecture

Lambda Durable Functions vs Step Functions: When to Use Which Workflow Tool

December 13, 2025•Serverless Architecture

The Library vs. The Warehouse: Why Your Database Can't Have It All

November 17, 2025•Database Architecture

DynamoDB Single Table Design: A Brilliant Hack That's Probably Torturing Your Team

October 21, 2025•Database Design

Cell-Based Architecture: When Isolation Beats Integration

September 10, 2025•System Design

The Serverless Tax: Why Your LLM Wrapper is Bleeding You Dry

July 07, 2025•Serverless Architecture

The Matryoshka Architecture: Why Envelope Encryption Isn't About Security (It's About Economics)

June 06, 2025•Security & Cryptography

The Math AWS Doesn't Want You to Do: Why S3 Intelligent Tiering Might Be Costing You More

May 21, 2025•Cloud Architecture

Insights in Plaintext: Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) — The Efficient Enigma

March 11, 2025•Cryptography

Aurora DSQL vs DynamoDB MRSC: The Global Database Duel

February 04, 2025•Database Architecture

Insights in Plaintext: RSA - The Asymmetric Anchor

November 02, 2024•Cryptography

Insights in Plaintext: Hiding in Plain Sight with Diffie-Hellman

October 20, 2024•Cryptography

Insights in Plaintext: SHA-3 – Absorbing the Complexity, Squeezing Out Security

October 08, 2024•Cryptography

Insights in Plaintext: Hashing out HMAC

September 27, 2024•Cryptography

JWT Deep Dive: Beyond the Basics - Unmasking Claim Types and Their Secrets

June 26, 2024•Security, Authentication, JWT, Backend

Insights in Plaintext: A Deep Dive in the Sea with Blowfish

June 18, 2024•Cryptography

Insights in Plaintext: Decrypting the Legacy of DES and 3DES

May 06, 2024•Cryptography

JWT Revocation: Taming the Stateless Beast

May 01, 2024•JWT

JWTs: Beyond the Buzzwords - What You Really Need to Know

April 16, 2024•JWT

Insights in Plaintext: Deep Dives into Cryptographic Algorithms

April 01, 2024•Cryptography

The Great Cloud Egress Escape: Why Your Cloud Bill Gives You Nightmares

March 09, 2024•Cloud Cost Optimization

Bits, Bytes, and Buttons: The Unexpected But Obvious Link Between Elevators and Hard Drives

February 02, 2024•distributed systems

Base64 Encoding Demystified: Padding, Security, and Practical Applications

January 11, 2024•security

The Port Party: A Crash Course on Ephemeral Ports and Their Security Implications

December 03, 2023•networking

From Forward to Reverse Proxies: Enhancing Network Performance and Security

November 10, 2023•proxies

Journey Through the Silicon : Network communications via Ephemeral Ports

September 03, 2023•Journey Through the Silicon

Data archival on cloud and how to not do it

June 02, 2023•Cloud Storage

Zero Day Vulnerabilities and You : Introduction

February 15, 2023•Zero Day Series

Unique Quirks of DynamoDB: Things you will notice when building at scale

January 28, 2023•Database

Serverless Architecture 101: Key areas to look into from Day 0

December 05, 2022•Serverless Architecture

An Associate Director talks opportunities, flexibility, and work culture at CACTUS Tech

August 16, 2021•Interview•Published at Cactus Tech Blog

Python Building Blocks - Generators

July 15, 2021•Python Fundamentals•Published at Cactus Tech Blog

Of Aspirations and Achievements- Front-end Intern to Solutions Architect in 3.5 Years

January 14, 2020•Career Update•Published at Cactus Tech Blog

Demystifying JavaScript Closures

November 30, 2019•JavaScript•Published at Cactus Tech Blog

Managing Continuous Integration Pipelines with Jenkins

June 11, 2019•Automation•Published at Auth0 Blog

How To Build a Search Bar with RxJS

April 17, 2019•JavaScript•Published at Digital Ocean Community

Generating Synthetic Music with JavaScript - Introduction to Neural Networks

April 17, 2019•Artificial Intelligence•Published at Cactus Tech Blog

Automating windows with COM object

December 01, 2018•Tutorial