Presently sponsored by: Build scalable, reliable and secure cloud native applications with Tech Fabric Home again which means more time to blog and per the intro to this week's update, time to catch up on how HIBP is tracking. Here's the 2 tweets with some stats I mention at the start of this week's update: It's been almost a month since I launched Pwned Passwords V2. In that time, @cloudflare has served 156TB from their cache thus keeping the traffic off my origin. Thanks guys, this would have been a hard discussion to have with the wife otherwise! pic.twitter.com/KUX0kXwjCo — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) March 21, 2018 Also, just got the bill for the @AzureFunctions which drive the Pwned Passwords API. Because 80%+ of requests are served from @Cloudflare's cache, I only consumed 43,531.1740 GB/s of execution time on Azure which means... pic.twitter.com/IFOJv9xpVl — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) March 21, 2018 Other than that, the big thing on the agenda this week is my post on the legitimisation of HIBP. For me, this is a big deal; I've been so cautious with how this service has been positioned and I'm really happy to see it where it is today. Hopefully the video conveys a little more of the sentiment about that than what might be immediately apparent in the blog post but yeah, I'm happy iTunes podcast | Google Play Music podcast | RSS podcast References HIBP has emerged out of a pretty shadowy area in the last year (it means a lot to me personally to see where it sits today) Tech Fabric is sponsoring my blog this week (big thanks to those guys, they're helping people do x-plat apps with .NET and JavaScript) Continue reading...
