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Practical articles on web security, performance, and the platforms that power the modern internet.
API Security in Ecommerce: What CTOs Get Wrong
Most ecommerce CTOs we talk to have a reasonable handle on their frontend security posture. WAF in place, DDoS protection sorted, bot …
How Page Latency Kills Ecommerce Revenue in 2026 (And How to Fix It)
Speed is not a feature. It is revenue. That framing still surprises some CTOs when we use it in a first meeting. Performance has …
How Bot Attacks Drain Fintech Revenue — And How to Stop Them
Bots now account for nearly half of all internet traffic. But not all bots are created equal — and the ones targeting your fintech platform …
Why most microsegmentation projects stall — and how to avoid it
Microsegmentation has a reputation as one of the highest-leverage controls a modern security team can deploy — and also as one of the most …
Bot management isn't a checkbox — it's a tuning practice
Bot management is one of those product categories where the marketing makes it sound like a turnkey product. Buy the platform, flip it on, …
The CDN math that actually matters for e-commerce
When we audit a CDN deployment for an e-commerce client, we don’t start with the dashboard the vendor provides. We start with four …
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Eknix
The best kind of holiday is one where nothing goes down — and we hope yours is exactly that: quiet, warm, and uninterrupted. Thank you for a …
How CDN node mapping actually works
There’s an interview question that used to be a rite of passage in backend engineering: “Walk me through everything that happens …
Why CDN Vendors Hide Their Prices (And What to Do About It)
You’ve spent hours comparing solutions. One site finally looks right. You want to know what it costs. And instead of a number, you get …
CDN to Origin Certificates: Your Own CA with OpenSSL
There’s a common assumption that because a CDN handles the TLS connection your users see — the certificate shown in the …
Is Google reCAPTCHA a DDoS Defence? The Cost Math Says No
There’s a category of question that gets asked quietly in Slack channels and in private post-incident reviews: “could we just …
Do You Know How Your Customers Experience Your Site? Or Just Where They Go?
Most engineering teams I talk to have Google Analytics. A lot of them assume that means they understand how their site is performing. It …
Happy New Year and Merry Christmas from Eknix
With the holiday season here, we wanted to take a moment to say thank you — genuinely — for being with us this year. To every client and …
Is Your Website Ready for the Holiday Rush?
11.11 just happened. Black Friday is right behind it. Then Christmas, then New Year’s. If your platform survived Singles Day with …
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