Security & Architecture articles, tutorials, and guides

In-depth articles, tutorials, and guides on Security & Architecture — covering everything from fundamentals to advanced patterns.

Finite State Modeling: The Architecture Pattern That Eliminates Impossible States

Security & Architecture

Most UI bugs are not logic errors — they are state management errors. By modeling UI states explicitly using finite state machines, you can make entire classes of bugs impossible to represent in your code before they ever reach production.

Race Conditions in UI State: How They Happen and How to Prevent Them

Security & Architecture

Race conditions are not just a backend problem. They happen in frontend state management whenever multiple async operations can resolve in an unpredictable order — and they are responsible for some of the most subtle and hard-to-reproduce bugs in React applications.

Event Sourcing in the Frontend: Building UI State From a Stream of Events

Security & Architecture

Event sourcing is typically discussed in the context of backend systems, but the same pattern — deriving current state by replaying a log of past events — offers powerful benefits for complex frontend state management, collaborative features, and time-travel debugging.

Prototype Pollution: The JavaScript Vulnerability You Might Be Ignoring

Security & Architecture

Prototype pollution is a class of JavaScript vulnerability where an attacker modifies Object.prototype or another shared prototype — causing unexpected behaviour across an entire application. It shows up most often in utility libraries, and it's more dangerous than it looks.

Content Security Policy: What It Is and How to Implement It

Security & Architecture

A Content Security Policy tells the browser which sources it is allowed to load resources from. It is one of the most effective defences against XSS attacks — and one of the most poorly understood headers in web security.

CSRF vs XSS: Understanding the Difference and How to Mitigate Both

Security & Architecture

CSRF and XSS are two of the most common web security vulnerabilities, yet they are frequently confused. They attack different things, exploit different trust relationships, and require different defences.