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Rails Encrypted Credentials Use AES 128-bit Key

on March 28, 2018 | By Christopher Rigor

Rails 5.2 introduces Credentials which replaces Secrets and Encrypted Secrets from previous Rails versions. I have previously written about Credentials for those of you wanting to know more.

Memcached Security aka Don't Attack GitHub

on March 7, 2018 | By Christopher Rigor

GitHub recently experienced the largest attack we've seen to date. At the peak, they received 1.35 Tbps via 126.9 million packets per second. We don't know who launched the attack but we know how they did it. The attackers used an amplification attack using memcached...

Ruby SSL Error: certificate verify failed

on February 2, 2018 | By Christopher Rigor

When working on your Rails app or when installing gems, you might get this Ruby SSL error :

Rails Encrypted Credentials on Rails 5.2

on December 15, 2017 | By Christopher Rigor

Rails 5.1 introduced encrypted secrets, which gives you two places to put your secrets -- secrets. yml and secrets.yml.enc. This causes a bit of confusion on when you should use normal secrets or encrypted secrets.

Encrypted Configuration on Rails 5.2

on December 14, 2017 | By Christopher Rigor

Credentials is a new feature on Rails 5.2 which replaces secrets and encrypted secrets. Under the hood Credentials use EncryptedConfiguration which you can reuse if you need to use encryption on other parts of your application.

PostgreSQL Replication Tutorial For Disaster Recovery

on November 24, 2017 | By Christopher Rigor

This blog post is a step by step tutorial on how to set up PostgreSQL Replication between AWS regions. This is an essential part of our disaster recovery plan at Engine Yard. A previous blog post gives a higher level overview on disaster recovery.