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A PKI-less secure communication channel: The record layer

October 4, 2021

In the previous post, I talked a lot about the manner in which both client and server will authenticate one another safely and securely. The reason for all the problem is that we want to ensure that we are talking to the entity we believe we do, protect ourselves from man in the middle, etc. The entire purpose of the handshake exchange is to…

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Why Databases are Still Getting Hacked

October 3, 2021

RavenDB Secure by Default NoSQL Database keeps your information safe in transit, at rest, and on the internet It costs five times more to replace a customer than to retain one. Why should you lose business because the database you bought couldn’t protect your customer’s data? Starting in 2017, a wave of attacks on MongoDB servers affected…

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A PKI-less secure communication channel: design

October 1, 2021

Following our recent hiccup with certificate expiration, I spent some time thinking about what we could do better. One of the paths that this led me to was to consider how I would design the underlying communication channel for RavenDB if I had a blank slate. Currently, RavenDB uses TLS over TCP and HTTPS (which is the same thing) as the sole…

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RavenDB Simple Pricing

September 30, 2021

Why wait 100 days for a price? RavenDB NoSQL database allows you control of the purchase process. Isn’t your database supposed to make things easier for you? The number one reason we developed RavenDB is to make developer lives easier. We are a team of developers, all with countless scars over the bloodletting we’ve endured to get our…

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How cross signing works with X509 certificates

September 30, 2021

This is an interesting and somewhat confusing topic, so I decided to write down my understanding of how certificate signatures work with cross signing. Key Takeaways X.509 certificates use digital signatures to establish trust, relying on a chain of issuers that traces back to a trusted root certificate. Cross signing allows a certificate (with…

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5 Facts About Raven NoSQL Database

September 28, 2021

A car stopped short in the middle of the highway. Out of nowhere, a raven swooped down, dropped something, then flew away. The car moved on. A few seconds later, the raven quickly dove back down, grabbed something in its beak, and flew off. He repeated this act all morning. Highway cameras later revealed the raven was placing walnuts on the…

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Postmortem: Partial RavenDB Cloud outage

September 27, 2021

On Friday, Sep 24, 2021, our monitoring tool started emit alerts. Our customers’ nodes were losing connectivity to one another. Not all of them, but a significant percentage. The issue impacted nodes in all availability zones, in all regions and across cloud providers. We are running isolated clusters, and aside from a total breakdown of the…

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RavenDB vs Couchbase: A Rakuten Kobo Use Case

September 27, 2021

RavenDB CEO Oren Eini shows the value of replicating data scenarios while doing live benchmarking to show you how to handle heavy load in a massive system.

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Fast Database for Online Shopping Systems

September 24, 2021

RavenDB NoSQL database helps Ez-Base sell and distribute hardware throughout Europe. Drilling Down The Other Type of Hardware How many developers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? None. That’s a hardware issue. Ez-Base is a Dutch company that enables wholesalers and retailers of hardware and construction tools to offer their…

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