Useful notes for engineers building systems that matter.

Practical, approachable articles on Java, secure APIs, PKI, encryption, and messaging — written from experience building enterprise financial systems. A curated set is below; the full archive of 20+ posts lives on Medium.

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Secure APIs & mTLSPKI & CertificatesJava & EncryptionMessaging & Resilience
Security / mTLS

Designing Trust Between Machines: How Mutual SSL Secures Banking Notifications

Security / Java

Using keytool Like a Senior Dev: Credit Card Payments mTLS Playbook

Security / Java

Truststore vs Keystore in Java

Messaging / Resilience

IBM MQ Clustering & High Availability

Security

Mutual SSL Explained: Why Banks Use Two-Way Trust

Encryption / Java

Mastering JWE Encryption in Java Using a .p12 Keystore

PKI

Understanding X.509 Certificates in Depth

PKI

What the Heck is Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)?

This is a curated set — the full archive covers certificate chains, CAs, digital signatures, and more, with new posts added regularly.

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