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How to safely store password in a database. Plus the 3 metrics you need to know to increase the cache hit ratio.

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Franco Fernando
Sep 23, 2023
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Hi Friends,

Welcome to the 39th edition of the Polymathic Engineer newsletter.

This week we will talk about how the most commonly used techniques to store passwords in a database. Plus the metrics you need to know to maximize the hit ratio of a cache.

The outline will be as follows:

  • How to safely store passwords

  • Hashing

  • Salting

  • Peppering

  • Metrics affecting the c…

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