Posts by Ramiro Alves
Fullstack developer senior out of the box

As a developer, it’s easy to see yourself surrounded in an environment where every system looks pretty similar, similar databases structures, similar designs, and similar backend procedures doing similar things you’ve done in the past… administrative systems. Yes, administrative systems are the bread and butter of how a big number of companies handle their data, just to mention the most common ones we might find as an example user, reports, payments, logic business and internal processes.

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Understanding NoSQL document-oriented databases using CouchDB

Somehow I remember that this month I’m gonna have 5 years using CouchDB, an Open Source small yet powerful Database Manager System that we started using because at some point in a Security Project I was working on, our previous Databases Engineer went too far away with normalization rules and queries started taking too long to throw results and our team started evaluating options on how to access our data the fastest way, we ended up with CouchDB v1.5… but why?

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Ramiro Alves
NodeJS: Secure Encrypting Data without needing public and private keys.

There are many situations in which embedded or software-bind encryption is not secure enough if we are paranoid enough. How many times we have read in the past years that databases that were supposed to be a safe vault because of its manager’s own features, and it turns out they are victims of their own, henceforth we decide to add some extra layer of security.

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Ramiro Alves