Feb 3, 2022Member-onlyWSO2 Open Banking now supports CIBAWSO2 Open Banking introduces support for CIBA — Client Initiated Back Channel Authentication This blog assumes that you are familiar with the WSO2 open banking solution and i suggest having a look at https://wso2.com/solutions/financial/open-banking/ if you are not. What is CIBA ? Lets get started with an intro to CIBA. CIBA is an abbreviation…Ciba4 min readCiba4 min read
Published in AWS in Plain English·Dec 6, 2021Member-onlyServe S3 Files via Cloudflare for FreePart 2: Scaling WordPress and WooCommerce. — In my last blog post, I talked about how to offload the WordPress media library to S3. However, with the free version of the WP Offload Media Lite plugin(https://wordpress.org/plugins/amazon-s3-and-cloudfront/), there is no way to serve the offloaded files through a CDN. Of course, this is available in the paid version…AWS4 min readAWS4 min read
Published in FAUN Publication·Nov 28, 2021Member-onlyOffloading WordPress Media LibraryScaling WordPress and Woocommerce — part 1 — Own a WordPress or WooCommerce website with a large number of products? Is your site getting too large and getting out of scale too fast? Let’s see how we can scale WordPress/WooCommerce horizontally. Issue #1 — Media Library increasing in size As your site grows and the number of products increase, the number of images on your website…AWS3 min readAWS3 min read
Published in FAUN Publication·Sep 25, 2021Member-onlyAuto Generating JWT Tokens with PostmanTired of manually creating JWT tokens each time? — Do you test your APIs with Postman? It seems that lot of postman users manually create their JWT tokens by visiting jwt.io since postman does not provide JWT signing out-of-the-box. I tried it a few times too, this would be manageable if your tokens do not expire quickly, but since…Postman3 min readPostman3 min read
Published in FAUN Publication·Aug 15, 2021Member-onlyGlobal Rate Limiting with Kubernetes NGINX Ingress ControllerHow to achieve global rate limiting with K8 NGINX Ingress — Recently I had a requirement to implementing global rate limiting for a Kubernetes deployment on a production system. By doing some RnD and on this resulted in almost no results. …Kubernetes5 min readKubernetes5 min read
Published in FAUN Publication·Jul 23, 2021Member-onlyWhat Azure WAF Can’t DoWhere Azure Web Application Firewall Docs are Wrong — For the last few months I’ve been working with Azure WAF and I am sad to say it has a lot of limitations. The more disappointing part is their support is not aware of what it cannot do. I had to engage in long support threads to show its issues…Azure6 min readAzure6 min read
Jun 25, 2021ScholarX 2021 — How it goes | Part 1My journey on ScholarX mentoring program — What is ScholarX? Let’s start off with an intro to the ScholarX program. Founded by Sustainable Education Foundation, ScholarX is a 6-month program for Sri-Lankan undergraduates who would like to get free premium mentoring during their study period As it says ScholarX is a program where the Sri Lankan students get to engage…Scholarx20213 min readScholarx20213 min read
May 26, 2021Member-onlyImplement Custom Rules in Azure Web Application Firewall(WAF)Automate Azure WAF creation with TerraForm — Web Application Firewall commonly known as WAF is one of the first lines of defense in protecting your web application from malicious attacks.There are 2 types of rules that are supported by Azure WAF. Managed Rules — These rules are managed by Azure and provide a set of pre-defined firewall…Azure4 min readAzure4 min read
Mar 12, 2021Member-onlyHow I Got Selected To Do GSOC @CERN + My GSoC ProposalsReady to GSoC with CERN? — I got this question from a lot of people in the last few weeks and so I thought to write a blog post about it so that all the interested students can use get to know this information. If you are here I assume that you have a pretty good idea…Gsoc6 min readGsoc6 min read
Mar 1, 2021What is Google Summer of Code?Let’s get ready for GSoC 2021 — This blog post contains the content of a guest session i did for IEEE CS Club of University of Moratuwa on “Introduction to Google Summer of Code”. The slide set can be found here at https://www.slideshare.net/KalanaWijethunga1/what-is-google-summer-of-code I’ll share my proposal soon on a separate blog post Introduction Google Summer of Code…Gsoc2 min readGsoc2 min read
