Input Validation Is Your First Line of Defence

SQL injection, XSS, and CSRF exploit the absence of input validation.

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Career & Inspiration· Apr 14, 2021

African Tech Does Not Have a Talent Problem. It Has a Tooling Problem.

The engineers are brilliant. The software they are forced to use is holding them back.

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PHP Development· Feb 22, 2021

Laravel's Eloquent ORM is responsible for a significant share of slow query incidents I have debugged.

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DevOps· Nov 03, 2020

Manual deployments are not a rite of passage. They are a liability.

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Data Science· May 18, 2020

I built an epidemic simulation modelling 1 million agents. The interventions that worked were not always being prioritised in the real world.

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Database Engineering· Mar 08, 2020

Both are excellent. Neither is universally better. A practical comparison from someone who has shipped on both.

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AI & Machine Learning· Oct 08, 2019

I built a credit scoring model expecting brilliance. The metrics told the truth. On measuring ML model quality honestly.

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Database Engineering· Apr 05, 2019

Most slow queries are slow because the right index does not exist.

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Engineering Philosophy· Jun 25, 2018

One off-by-one error in a financial reconciliation loop. Three days. The session that permanently changed my approach to defensive programming.