Tag: Leadership and career
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Test your APIs further using HTTP Toolkit
Posted on December 24, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length long
If you're a tester or developer who needs to work with APIs across different platforms, HTTP Toolkit is a valuable tool to keep by your side. By Anshul Behl. By Dennis Martinez.
Tags architecture-and-apis leadership-and-career devops-and-ci-cd testing-and-quality cloud-and-infrastructure
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Google Cloud managed compute platforms: Top 10 blog posts of 2021
Posted on December 20, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length short
Sure, Google Cloud offers world-class infrastructure, but one of the main reasons that customers choose our platform is to run their applications on one of our managed container platforms: Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), the most scalable and easy to use service from the company that invented Kubernetes; Anthos for managing containers in hybrid and multicloud scenarios; and Cloud Run, our serverless platform for containerized workloads. By @google.com.
Tags miscellaneous leadership-and-career cloud-and-infrastructure how-to
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Why lazy coding practices will ALWAYS cost you more in the long run
Posted on December 19, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length long
The idea of clean code gained popularity with the publication of Robert Cecil Martin's "Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship" in 2008. However, the principles of clean code date back to the beginning of software development, and Martin's book is an essential manual for people who aim for cleanly written code. It's a programming classic, and if you're serious about coding, you should read this book cover to cover! By Ritesh Shah.
Tags frontend-and-mobile architecture-and-apis business-and-emerging-tech cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career
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Choosing a cyber incident management platform
Posted on December 18, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length long
Efficiently dealing with an incident or crisis weighs heavily on three main factors; preparation, process and the tools you have to hand. The latter can greatly influence your incident management process and a cyber incident management platform should make the implementation of your incident response quick and easy rather than hinder it. By Cheryl.
Tags security-and-privacy leadership-and-career miscellaneous
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Zero days explained: How unknown vulnerabilities become gateways for attackers
Posted on December 17, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
A zero day is a security flaw for which the vendor of the flawed system has yet to make a patch available to affected users. You can't patch these holes—but you can still protect yourself. By Josh Fruhlinger.
Tags security-and-privacy product-and-design frontend-and-mobile devops-and-ci-cd leadership-and-career
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API authentication with tokens
Posted on December 12, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
In this article I'm going to show you a few common patterns for client authentication based on tokens, and how can they be implemented in a Python API back end. This method of authentication works well for rich clients, like JavaScript-based front end applications running in the browser, or perhaps a command-line (CLI) application. By Miguel Grinberg.
Tags software-engineering architecture-and-apis leadership-and-career backend-development
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Tiered datastore solution for high data growth MySQL using Distributed SQL Databases (DSQL)
Posted on December 10, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Usually, entities like order, order items etc tend to grow substantially year on year as we scale more and serve large customers. Generally, MySQL is the widely used datastore due to its durable & ACID guarantees. While MySQL is a brilliant tech stack, it comes with the overhead of data maintenance. By Manohar K.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure data-and-analytics backend-development leadership-and-career architecture-and-apis
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Learn more about distributed databases with ShardingSphere
Posted on December 8, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Apache ShardingSphere is an open source distributed database, plus an ecosystem users and developers need for their database to provide a customized and cloud-native experience. By Trista Pan.
Tags data-and-analytics architecture-and-apis leadership-and-career
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3 ways to use load tests beyond performance
Posted on December 7, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Most teams use load testing only for performance or stress tests. But they can also help uncover infrastructure issues early. Read on to see how load tests can help make your entire system more resilient at its foundation. By Dennis Martinez.
Tags testing-and-quality cloud-and-infrastructure miscellaneous software-engineering leadership-and-career frontend-and-mobile
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How does an SQL injection attack work? Examples & types
Posted on December 6, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
A SQL injection (SQLi) attack is one of the most threatening issues for data integrity and confidentiality today, allowing attackers to access secure data where they are not authorized. In this article, we discuss SQLi and how these attacks work, with types and examples. By Al Mahmud Al Mamun.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure backend-development data-and-analytics miscellaneous leadership-and-career architecture-and-apis
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Introducing quantum serverless
Posted on December 4, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Introducing Quantum Serverless, a new programming model for leveraging quantum and classical resources. By Blake Johnson, Ismael Faro, Michael Behrendt, Jay Gambetta @ibm.com.
Tags architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure miscellaneous leadership-and-career
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How well-architected enables junior engineers
Posted on November 30, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Well-architected describes the key concepts, design principles and architecture best practices for designing your cloud workloads. It balances best practices with business goals to determine the optimal outcome. By Gerald Stewart.
Tags architecture-and-apis product-and-design software-engineering leadership-and-career cloud-and-infrastructure