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Why OAuth it self is not an authentication framework ?
Let’s straight a way start with definitions to avoid any confusions. Authentication is the act of confirming the truth of an attribute of a datum or entity. If I say, I am Prabath ...
OAuth 2.0 Bearer Token Profile Vs MAC Token Profile
Almost all the implementation I see today are based on OAuth 2.0 Bearer Token Profile. Of course its an RFC proposed standard today. OAuth 2.0 Bearer Token profile brings a simplified ...
WSO2 Identity Server: Identity Management platform
WSO2 Identity Server provides a flexible, extensible and robust platform for Identity Management. This blog post looks inside WSO2 Identity Server to identify different plug points ...
Extending JMeter with a WS-Trust/STS sampler
JMeter does not have any inbuilt support for WS-Security or WS-Trust and that made me develop this STS Sampler for JMeter – which could make anyone’s life better while ...
Extending JMeter with a password digest generator
Recently I had to work on loading an OpenLDAP instance with 50,000 user records and carry on some stress testing. JMeter was the best choice to populate the LDAP. ...
Key Exchange Patterns with Web Services Security
When we have message level security with web services – how we achieve integrity and confidentiality is through keys. Keys are used to sign and encrypt messages been passed from ...
MapReduce with MongoDB
MapReduce is a software framework introduced by Google in 2004 to support distributed computing on large data sets on clusters of computers. You can read about MapReduce from ...
The Twitter API Management Model
The objective of this blog post is to explore in detail the patterns and practices Twitter has used in it’s API management. Twitter comes with a comprehensive set of REST APIs ...
A SMALL cross-section of BIG Data
Big data is a term applied to data sets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Big ...
