Some of the interesting things I did, learned, or found in the (week before the) past week. This time it’s not very complete and comes a bit later - the reason is simple:

If you are running production workloads on AWS there’s a good chance you’re using Amazon CloudFront - Content Delivery Network (CDN) that helps you improve performance, security, and reliability of your website:

TL;DR: If you know the size of your input beforehand, it should be safe to leave out the padding character ('=') so you don’t need to percent-encode it for safe usage in URLs.

Some of the interesting things I did, learned, or found in the past week.

AWS Secrets Manager is a great place to store secrets that are needed by somebody else (machines or people) if you are running your infrastructure on AWS.