Mano Sriram

Subscribe to my newsletter and never miss my upcoming articles

The safest way to use JWTs

Feb 20, 20216 min read

JWTs are probably one of the most used ways to authenticate users. But most people use them in the wrong way which has serious security issues. JWT tokens are incredibly sensitive to information. Even a single change in the payload can change the has...

Disjoint Sets in C++

Feb 3, 20216 min read

This Data-Structure deals mainly with Sets and their operations. Why is that important? Because we can accomplish operations in near O(1) time. This DS mainly covers these operations: Union Find Due to these operations, this DS is also called as ...

Solving a Sudoku board using BackTracking.

Jan 19, 20216 min read

Backtracking is a general algorithm for finding all solutions to some computational problems. Here are the basic rules of sudoku. It is a 9x9 grid. It is divided into 6 3x3 blocks. Each block must contain all number numbers from 1 to 9. There must b...

Merging in GIT

Jan 17, 20216 min read

Merging is an important part of version-control. It is an integral part of GIT. Some questions arise when we get started with git. What is the need for Merging? Types of Merging? Is Merging necessary when I am working alone in a project? Note: I...

Raw Technical Blogs for Backend Developers.

Jan 13, 20214 min read

Technical Engineering Blogs are important for a developer to know what and how engineering is done at scale. Netflix TechBlog: Netflix has its own Technical blog where it shares how it is done inside Netflix. This blog is one of the best I've ever s...

Knight's Tour

Jan 12, 20216 min read

A Knight's tour is a sequence of moves starting from any square and visiting every other square such that every square must be visited exactly once. The earliest known reference to this problem dates back to the 9th Century, India. The knight's tour ...