Enterprise databases keep getting breached because of weak encryption, poor access control, and misplaced trust in internal systems. This post explains why it happens and how to fix it.

I have been asked about tombstones in cassandra, often from users who suddenly are experiencing a slow cluster, some nasty timeouts, a…

Many people use Kafka as a data hose for a stream of events where idempotence is not critical. For example, if you are recording user…