A few days ago I posted a long-in-the-making article about the common engineering problems and constant challenges at the $dayjob blog. There are a number of repeating themes and questions that come up when doing interviews, so I figured I might as well answer them all in one place, and with sufficient detail.
After all, why not?
I gave a surprisingly long presentation in April at the dc4420 monthly event. What was supposed to be at most 40'ish minutes followed by short Q&A ended up taking more than an hour thanks to lively discussion during the different segments.
This was an overview of infrastructural design constraints for a betting exchange, especially focused on finding practical ways to address the regulatory demands. At the cross-section between gambling and FinTech the environment comes with some fairly unique externally imposed requirements.
The slides are a revised version of the presentation material, designed as better suited for distribution.
You can find the slides here: Infrastructure Design for the Professionally Paranoid
I gave a short presentation in October at the dc4420 monthly event. The talk was about the simple theory and practice behind hash extension attacks.
You can find the slides here: size_t Does Matter
Well that was unexpected. BBC just quoted me.