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In the previous article, I introduced Biscuit, our authentication and authorization token, and mentioned its Datalog based language for authorization policies. Let's see how it works!

After 2 years of development, I am proud to share with you the official release of Biscuit, the authentication and authorization token we develop to manage access to our systems.

It is common knowledge that hardware is cheap, and programmers are expensive, and that most performance issues can be easily solved by throwing more and bigger hardware at it. But is it really cheaper in the long run? Is there still some room for optimization work?

Yesterday two issues affecting CPUs have been released to the public. TL;DR: the attacks are named Meltdown and Spectre. They allow reading the memory of the OS or of other processes, to steal secrets or get information for other exploits. A part of the solution can greatly affect performance of running code. In particular, this […]

At Clever Cloud, we are working on Sōzu, an HTTP reverse proxy that can change its configuration at runtime, without restarting the process. Why would we need that, you might ask?

A few weeks ago, we set out to develop an AMQP client library in Rust, and I'm happy to release it now! We will integrate it in more and more of our tools in the future.

If you ever talked to me, or looked at my Twitter feed, you may have noticed that I campaign loudly for the Rust programming language. I am not going to stop. In fact, it will only go crescendo!

We use logs for everything, to track errors, measure performance, keep a journal of how our software runs, or even debug code in production. Since we use it so much, we should be good at it by now, right?