Tag: App development
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Bridging security gaps in WFH and hybrid setups
Posted on October 16, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length short
Hybrid and work-from-home (WFH) arrangements take employees from the safety of the more secure and monitored environment of the office. These arrangements blur the division between enterprise and home networks while subsequently expanding the attack surface for both environments. How can these security gaps be bridged? By trendmicro.com.
Tags infosec cio app-development teams
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How to unit-test extension methods in C#
Posted on October 15, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length short
A good coding practice is to keep the view layer in an MVC structure as simple as possible and with no or minimal logic. A common practice to extract common logic that you might want to use in many places is to create an extension method that could be used across views. This moves to logic from the views into a C#-based method. By Linus Ekström.
Tags programming tdd app-development
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Postgres: Better message queue than Kafka?
Posted on October 13, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Today author is going to talk about why they made the unconventional decision to build thier logging system on top of Postgres, what worked well, what didn't work well, and how they did it. By Pete Hunt.
Tags apache sql app-development database messaging
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CSS-in-JS for React: Linaria vs. Styled components
Posted on October 12, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
When building a web application with React, one of the challenges apart from implementing the main logic of the application is styling and choosing the appropriate styling solutions for your application. By Osah Peter.
Tags frontend app-development css react javascript web-development
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NLU 101: Introduction to Natural Language Understanding
Posted on October 11, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Natural Language Understanding (NLU) is a subtopic of Natural Language Processing. It focuses on "comprehension". NLU deals with users' intents and what they mean instead of what they say. Thus, some people refer to it as Intent Detection or Intent Detector. By picovoice.ai.
Tags data-science app-development big-data
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Google Firebase with dotnet6
Posted on October 10, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Google Firestore is a document-oriented database that has some neat features for building modern apps as part of the Firebase offering. In most respects, I find it is conceptually similar to AWS Amplify on the surface. Having now worked with both, they feel very different in practice. By Charles Chen.
Tags nosql app-development google gcp serverless
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Implement DevSecOps to secure your CI/CD pipeline
Posted on October 5, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Before understanding DevSecOps, let's understand what is DevOps. DevOps is the combination of cultural philosophies, practices, and tools that increase an organization's ability to deliver applications and services at high velocity. In fast-moving projects, security often lags behind and given low priority which may lead to buggy code and hacks. Let's see how we can reduce the risk of attack by integrating security in our DevOps pipeline. By Alok Maurya.
Tags cicd devops app-development infosec cio web-development
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Semantic versioning with CI/CD
Posted on October 4, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Updates introducing a breaking change are unwelcome, especially when this happens without warning. Semantic versioning is one of the most popular solutions for this. By Tomas Fernandez.
Tags cicd devops app-development web-development
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Different token types and formats explained
Posted on October 3, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
When building security solutions using OAuth and OpenID Connect (OIDC), we frequently discuss tokens. Sometimes these systems are even referred to as token-based architectures. By Jonas Iggbom.
Tags app-development web-development infosec open-source
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Why AI is perfect for mobile apps
Posted on October 2, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Why AI is the perfect accompaniment to modern mobile app development and how it's already being used to transform the apps we use every day. Artificial intelligence has been breaking into the mobile app development industry and becoming part of more developers' tools in their wheelhouse. This is because AI and machine learning are able to provide many benefits to not only the team building the application but to the end user as well. By @ninetwothree.co.ao.
Tags big-data app-development data-science analytics
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Implement step-up authentication with Amazon Cognito
Posted on September 25, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
In this blog post, you'll learn how to protect privileged business transactions that are exposed as APIs by using multi-factor authentication (MFA) or security challenges. These challenges have two components: what you know (such as passwords), and what you have (such as a one-time password token). By using these multi-factor security controls, you can implement step-up authentication to obtain a higher level of security when you perform critical transactions. By Salman Moghal, Mahmoud Matouk, and Ozair Sheikh.
Tags aws devops infosec app-development
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Java memory model
Posted on September 24, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
The goal of this post is to get familiar with how memory works in java. We will see how it works in combination with the OS it runs on, how it's structured and how it functions internally inside a JVM. By Nermin Karapandzic.
Tags jvm java programming app-development