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About RaccSec Labs
What this site is
RaccSec Labs is the engineering half of RaccSec. It exists because a portfolio entry has to stay short, and the interesting parts of a project are usually the ones that get cut: the constraint that forced an unusual design, the approach that failed first, the thing that only showed up under load.
Everything here is written by Ben Newton, who builds the tooling these case studies describe.
How it relates to RaccSec.com
The two sites do different jobs and deliberately do not repeat each other.
- RaccSec.com introduces the work: who builds it, what it does, and a concise summary per project.
- RaccSec Labs documents the engineering: architecture, decisions, tradeoffs, limitations, and results with the evidence behind them.
Where both cover a project, the case study here links back to its summary rather than restating it.
How these are written
Case studies follow the shape of the work rather than a fixed template, so they will not all have the same sections. Two rules hold across every one of them:
- Numbers appear only when they can be evidenced. No estimates presented as measurements.
- Limitations and failed approaches are documented alongside what worked, because a write-up with no failures in it is not a real one.