Docker-Based Ansible Testing Environment

Background During my first weeks at Cermati after leaving Bukalapak, I had a chance to play a bit with the company’s deployment scripts. We’re using Ansible playbooks to automate a...

Why Reading Matters

Among my coworkers in Bukalapak, there’s this young security enthusiast who’s quite a fast learner. Yet, he seems to be struggling to keep up with what he expected out of...

Basic Auth: Authentication or Authorization?

What is Auth? The word “auth” in computer security context can refer to authentication and authorization. These two words’ meanings are sometimes confused with each other. The detailed explanation for...

Social Responsibility of Tech Companies

Tech is becoming even more mainstream, and everybody’s dreaming of their own successful tech startups. In Indonesia alone, a few startups have gained their position and matured into the next...

Attending Black Hat Asia 2017

As in the previous years, this year’s Black Hat Asia event is held at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. But unlike the previous years, this time I actually got the...