Tag: Miscellaneous
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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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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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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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Why you should be using low-code apps to build internal tools
Posted on March 31, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Find out why you should be using low-code apps to build internal tools. By leveraging the speed and cost benefits of the new range of low and no-code tools available, you can use your expertise to deliver applications faster than ever before. By James Konik.
Tags miscellaneous product-and-design software-engineering leadership-and-career
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Monetizing your blog with cryptocurrencies
Posted on March 20, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Current internet has been dominated by huge corporations, spying on users and selling their data to the advertisement companies. Amount of ads in internet is unbearable, pushing the quality content out in favour of mass produced click baits. By Damian Sosnowski.
Tags miscellaneous business-and-emerging-tech
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Why reading code is just as important as writing code: How to get better at it
Posted on March 16, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length long
It strikes me as odd. We've heard the same messages: Write clean code. Write readable code. Write meaningful code. By Amy M Haddad.
Tags software-engineering leadership-and-career miscellaneous how-to
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DynamoDB checklist
Posted on March 14, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
DynamoDB is the leading serverless database in the AWS suite of offerings. It provides an easy to configure, high-performance, NoSQL database with low operational overhead and almost endless scalability. By SenseDeep.
Tags architecture-and-apis data-and-analytics miscellaneous cloud-and-infrastructure
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Browser attack allows tracking users online with JavaScript disabled
Posted on March 11, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length short
Researchers have discovered a new side-channel that they say can be reliably exploited to leak information from web browsers that could then be leveraged to track users even when JavaScript is completely disabled. By Ravie Lakshmanan.
Tags security-and-privacy frontend-and-mobile miscellaneous
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7 Reasons why products fail
Posted on March 5, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length short
What is product failure, anyway? Not all failures are catastrophic where the product is pulled from the market and the company goes out of business. Most are partial or soft failures. By Rick Bess.
Tags leadership-and-career software-engineering cloud-and-infrastructure miscellaneous