Tag: Cloud and infrastructure
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Stacks vs. Solana vs. Polygon: How do they compare from a developer perspective?
Posted on May 31, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length long
What's the best blockchain for building Web3 applications? It depends on what you want to prioritize across the blockchain trilemma. The trilemma argues that blockchains can only provide two of the three properties of decentralization, security, and scalability, and that no matter where you build, you'll be making a tradeoff. By Joe Bender.
Tags business-and-emerging-tech cloud-and-infrastructure how-to miscellaneous software-engineering
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Magic NAT: Everywhere, unbounded, and lower cost
Posted on May 30, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length long
Network Address Translation (NAT) is one of the most common and versatile network functions, used by everything from your home router to the largest ISPs. Today, we're delighted to introduce a new approach to NAT that solves the problems of traditional hardware and virtual solutions. By Annika Garbers.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure devops-and-ci-cd software-engineering leadership-and-career
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Visualizing the 5 pillars of cloud architecture
Posted on May 29, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length long
Getting the most value out of an organization's cloud infrastructure can be a daunting task. But the key considerations can be winnowed down to an easy-to-remember acronym: CROPS, which stands for cost optimization, reliability, operational excellence, performance efficiency and security. By Dan Lawyer.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career software-engineering
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Secure communication with light particles
Posted on May 25, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length long
Researchers are developing an anti-eavesdropping quantum network. By Technische Universitat Darmstadt.
Tags miscellaneous leadership-and-career data-and-analytics cloud-and-infrastructure security-and-privacy
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How a Man-in-the-Middle attack works
Posted on May 22, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Man-in-the-middle (or MitM) attacks can occur when an attacker has the ability to intercept communications over the network. This allows the attacker to read -- and potentially modify -- these communications. By Rob Behnke.
Tags security-and-privacy cloud-and-infrastructure frontend-and-mobile product-and-design
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6 essential digital optimization skills you need
Posted on May 21, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
To succeed as a customer-centric team, building and honing digital optimization skills is crucial. Here are the skills to focus on.. By Will Watkinson. By Mallory Busch.
Tags leadership-and-career cloud-and-infrastructure software-engineering
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Building a business system integration and automation platform at Shopify
Posted on May 20, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Companies organize and automate their internal processes with a multitude of business systems. Since companies function as a whole, these systems need to be able to talk to one another. At Shopify, we took advantage of Ruby, Rails, and our scale with these technologies to build a business system integration solution. By Will Watkinson.
Tags leadership-and-career cloud-and-infrastructure
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What are namespaces and cgroups, and how do they work?
Posted on May 16, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Recently, I have been investigating NGINX Unit, our open source multi-language application server. As part of my investigation, I noticed that Unit supports both namespaces and cgroups, which enables process isolation. In this blog, we'll look at these two major Linux technologies, which also underlie containers. By Scott van Kalken of F5.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd cloud-and-infrastructure
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Swift actors: How do they work, and what kinds of problems do they solve?
Posted on May 12, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Since the very first version of Swift, we've been able to define our various types as either classes, structs, or enums. But now, with the launch of Swift 5.5 and its built-in concurrency system, a new type declaration keyword has been added to the mix -- actor. By John Sundell.
Tags frontend-and-mobile cloud-and-infrastructure how-to software-engineering leadership-and-career
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Modern alternatives to some of the classic Linux commands
Posted on May 11, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
When you start learning Linux, you begin with a standard set of Linux commands that have been in existence since the UNIX days. As you grow old as a Linux user, you keep on mastering the same set of standard commands. By Abhishek Prakash.
Tags miscellaneous cloud-and-infrastructure how-to devops-and-ci-cd leadership-and-career
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Your complete guide to SSL/TLS and HTTPS
Posted on May 10, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Between the ever-increasing global cybersecurity threats and Google's tightening security standards, it's more important than ever for business owners to take active measures to safeguard their sites. Otherwise, you're putting both yourself and your customers at risk. Not good. By David Wahlstrom.
Tags security-and-privacy how-to cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career
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How to switch to Ubuntu Rolling Rhino: rolling release version of Ubuntu
Posted on April 27, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Ubuntu goes bleeding edge with Rolling Rhino. Here's everything you need to know about it. New Ubuntu releases come out every six months, with most of the software frozen in time until the next release. To receive the latest updates as soon as they're available, many people turn to a rolling release distribution, such as Arch Linux. By Bertel King.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure software-engineering leadership-and-career devops-and-ci-cd