#how-it-works

A few years ago, my colleagues and I were tasked with implementing webhooks in one of our products. I immersed myself in numerous blogs and documentation until the concept of webhooks clicked. Excited to share my newfound understanding, I explained it to my colleagues using a simple analogy: “Imagine you’re hungry and order food at a restaurant. Instead of constantly asking the waiter every few mins if your food is ready, the waiter brings it to you the moment it’s prepared....

In my everyday work with Kubernetes, I often encounter Kubernetes secrets containing strings of seemingly random characters ending with equal signs. These are Base64 encoded texts. This made me curious: What exactly is Base64 encoding, and how does it work its magic? So, one day, I decided to learn how Base64 actually works. It turns out to be a pretty simple process where the data (normal text and numbers) are converted into a special format that machines can easily read and use....