Tag: Leadership and career
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Worst nightmare cyberattack: The untold story of the SolarWinds hack
Posted on April 16, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length long
The routine software update may be one of the most familiar and least understood parts of our digital lives. By Dina Temple Raston.
Tags security-and-privacy leadership-and-career software-engineering business-and-emerging-tech cloud-and-infrastructure
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Use event-driven data mesh to avoid drowning in the (data) lake
Posted on April 15, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
For much of the last decade, enterprises fought against data silos, isolated persistence stores holding untold but inaccessible knowledge. Their primary weapon was the data lake: a huge centralized datastore that held terabytes of domain-specific data in a single logical location. By Jesse Menning.
Tags ai-and-machine-learning data-and-analytics cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career miscellaneous
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Moving fast and breaking us all: Big tech's unaccountable algorithms
Posted on April 14, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
They decide who passes and who fails in secondary school. They decide who gets arrested and who goes to prison. They decide what news you see first thing in the morning as well as what news you won't see. And they drive the business models—and revenues—of the world's largest and most powerful digital platforms. By Ellery Roberts Biddle & Jie Zhang.
Tags ai-and-machine-learning data-and-analytics cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career
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Cloud vendor lock-in: the good, the bad and reality
Posted on April 13, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
This is the second part of a mini-series centered around cloud computing; a high-level overview of vendor lock-in and mitigation strategies. By Piotr.
Tags architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career miscellaneous
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Watch hybrid work: It's complicated
Posted on April 11, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
We're all rooting for a happy medium with WFH and RTO, but to succeed, take note of these takeaways from 2020. By Jon Arnold.
Tags business-and-emerging-tech leadership-and-career miscellaneous
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Tackling Java cold startup times on AWS Lambda with GraalVM
Posted on April 10, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Have you ever tried running a Java application on AWS Lambda? Well, even the simplest Java application takes significant time to start up at first. The reason behind is simple. AWS has to prepare a runtime environment for your application when it executes the first time. This is called cold-start. By Arnold Galovics.
Tags backend-development software-engineering leadership-and-career devops-and-ci-cd architecture-and-apis
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Malicious PDFs: Revealing the techniques behind the attacks
Posted on April 9, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Most of us are no strangers to phishing attempts, and over the years we've kept you informed about the latest tricks used by attackers in the epidemic of phishing and spear-phishing campaigns that plague, in particular, email users. This is an older but useful article by Phil Stokes.
Tags security-and-privacy leadership-and-career cloud-and-infrastructure
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Google beats Oracle in biggest programming copyright Supreme Court case ever
Posted on April 8, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
At long last, programming code's application programming interfaces are protected from Oracle's over-reaching claims. Ten years ago, Oracle argued that Google had infringed Oracle's copyright, by copying the "structure, sequence, and organization" of 37 Java application programming interfaces (APIs) into Android. By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols.
Tags backend-development miscellaneous leadership-and-career architecture-and-apis
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In-depth dive into security features of Intel/Windows platform secure boot process
Posted on April 7, 2021, Level advanced Resource Length long
This blog post is an in-depth dive into the security features of the Intel/Windows platform boot process. In this post I'll explain the startup process through security focused lenses, next post we'll dive into several known attacks and how they were handled by Intel and Microsoft. By Igor Bogdanov.
Tags security-and-privacy leadership-and-career cloud-and-infrastructure miscellaneous software-engineering
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2020 Tech lead survey looks at developers & hints into 2021
Posted on April 6, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Couchbase has surveyed IT decision makers annually to find out the challenges they face in executing their digital transformation strategies. Perhaps unsurprisingly, 2020 was different from previous years. However, it may come as a surprise to find out how attuned CIOs are to the plight of developers. By Christina Knittel.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd leadership-and-career miscellaneous software-engineering
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Illustrated guide to 12 Factor Apps
Posted on April 5, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
The 12 Factor App methodology is an influential pattern to designing scalable application architecture. Here is what that means for application architects and their architecture. By Bob Reselman.
Tags product-and-design cloud-and-infrastructure architecture-and-apis leadership-and-career
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Ceph geo replication
Posted on April 4, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length short
Ceph is our go-to choice for storage clustering (creating a single storage system by linking multiple servers over a network). Ceph offers a robust feature set of native tools that constantly come in handy with routine tasks or specialized challenges you may run into. By Joe Milburn.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd leadership-and-career cloud-and-infrastructure architecture-and-apis