Gajendra's Blog

Why did backend guys always feel superior over frontend guys? I have been on both side and have done both front-end development and back-end development for long time. Truth is in a web based product nothing is superior both complement each other. Think about the product which has sophisticated transaction processing system, better error handling,reliability and availability but lacks good user experience and poorly designed user interface. Consider user interface as front desk, no matter how good your back office processes are if front desk does not behave in respected manner nothing works. Coming to so called superior feeling of backend developers much of it can be largely attributed to technology stack, I think it’s better to say traditional technology stack. Normally engineer feel great when they deal with stuff which has fair amount of complexity and backend gives you that.Front end was nothing more than JAVA script, HTML and CSS, not counting tools and productivity solutions...

One of the friend asked this question in one of the popular forums, i thought I should keep copy of my answer in my blog as well. What sort of interview questions can be asked in information security profile? It depends on your role under information security profile, If you are ininformation security engineering role, questions will be more from tools andtechnologies and security audit and analysis methodologies. Questions may comefrom application security(OWASP TOP10), network security or computer forensics. In the corporate world no one expects an information security engineer to bemaster of all the security disciplines. Questions from different operating system techniques and popular web serversand information security architecture will be asked. Various operating system administrationdetails questions may surface. Vulnerability assessment is another topic whichcan be discussed. Security consultant as a profession itself is about being specialist notjournalist. So solid un...