Salt and Pepper

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

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…