The HTTPS Protocol: Ensuring Secure Communication

The HTTPS protocol is an extension of HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) that provides secure communication over the internet. Unlike HTTP, which is insecure by design, HTTPS encrypts the entire communication between your browser and the web server, ensuring privacy and security. When you request a webpage from a web server, your data goes through multiple trips between the browser and the server. Additionally, depending on the webpage’s content, there may be additional connections required to retrieve CSS files, JavaScript files, images, and more....

What is a Database? And a DBMS?

A database is a collection of information carefully organized into a system. The technology that allows us to organize data and represent the information necessary for an information system is called Database Management System (DBMS). A DBMS is software that encapsulates the data of a database and provides us with a centralized way to store, retrieve, edit, persist, and perform other operations on it. Let’s define some of the main properties of a DBMS:...