Tag: Product and design
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6 best practices to improve Node.js security
Posted on July 6, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Today, Node.js is widely used in web and mobile applications, for it fills the gap between front-end and back-end applications. Unfortunately, increased usage of Node.js has opened new doors for attackers to exploit misconfigurations and vulnerabilities. By Lahiru Hewawasam.
Tags security-and-privacy product-and-design frontend-and-mobile backend-development
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How to abort API requests in JavaScript
Posted on July 5, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Did you know that you can abort an API request in JavaScript? By aborting, I mean canceling a request before it is completed (before you get a response or before the request gets to the server). By Dillion Megida.
Tags product-and-design frontend-and-mobile backend-development
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Separate stateful infrastructure with Serverless Compose
Posted on July 4, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
One of the most significant benefits of serverless is that the development teams can fully own and manage all of their infrastructure themself. Keeping all of that infrastructure in the same CloudFormation stack can sometimes be troublesome however, and there are many reasons why you might consider having parts of it in a separate stack. By Sebastian Bille.
Tags product-and-design architecture-and-apis frontend-and-mobile leadership-and-career devops-and-ci-cd
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Linked Lists explained in PHP
Posted on July 1, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
As one of the most common data structures, the linked list has to be one of the simplest in concept; yet still very powerful. In this post we will be looking at what linked lists are; what types of linked lists there are; when to use a linked list; and whether or why a linked list might be better than an array. By Doeke Norg.
Tags backend-development frontend-and-mobile leadership-and-career product-and-design software-engineering
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Create a blog with Clojure, nbb, and MarkDoc
Posted on June 29, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length long
This endeavor is my first adventure with Clojure(script). Meaning this is from a Clojure beginner perspective. By Alexander Carls.
Tags software-engineering frontend-and-mobile product-and-design
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Building a websocket server in a Microservice architecture
Posted on June 28, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Designing a WebSocket server in a microservice architecture for real-time communications. This article was written to share author's exploration of real-time communication between frontend and backend using WebSocket. In recent years, microservice is an architectural approach that many developers have adopted, and one of the key principles of microservice architecture is the "Single Responsibility Principle." By KBryan.
Tags architecture-and-apis product-and-design
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Microservices vs APIs: Understanding the difference
Posted on June 25, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length long
Microservices and APIs are becoming famous everywhere in the software development space with the increasing need to produce scalable, secure, and flexible applications at faster turnaround times. By Durga Prasad Acharya.
Tags architecture-and-apis frontend-and-mobile product-and-design
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Why managed container services help startups and tech companies build smarter
Posted on June 21, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Learning how to install and manage Kubernetes clusters can be a big obstacle between your organization and all the potential magic of a container orchestration platform. You have to consider tasks like provisioning machines, choosing OS and runtime, and setting up networking and security. By Fer De Oliveira @google.
Tags business-and-emerging-tech product-and-design cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career
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Automating AWS IAM remediation in Python
Posted on June 20, 2022, Level advanced Resource Length long
Since automating IAM remediation requires recurring parsing of JSON documents, modulating your parsing function(s) will save you time as you work on each control. If you have controls that pertain to trust policies, you will need a separate function to parse those out since the format differs from that of permission policies. By Cody Bench.
Tags backend-development product-and-design security-and-privacy software-engineering leadership-and-career
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Introduction to Linear Programming in Python
Posted on June 19, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
A guide to mathematical optimization with Google OR-Tools. Linear programming is a technique to optimize any problem with multiple variables and constraints. It's a simple but powerful tool every data scientist should master. By Maxime Labonne.
Tags backend-development product-and-design software-engineering cloud-and-infrastructure
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Three myths of open source software risk and the one nobody is discussing
Posted on June 18, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Open source software is being vilified once again and, in some circles, even considered a national security threat. Open source software risk has been a recurring theme: First it was classified as dangerous because anyone could work on it and then it was called insecure because nobody was in charge. By Josh Bressers.
Tags frontend-and-mobile product-and-design miscellaneous cloud-and-infrastructure
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New superconductors could make faster Quantum computers
Posted on June 17, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Practical quantum computers could soon arrive with profound implications for everything from drug discovery to code-breaking. By Sascha Brodsky.
Tags software-engineering leadership-and-career product-and-design miscellaneous architecture-and-apis