Tag: Software engineering
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How to supercharge string search through a directory hierarchy on a Linux/Unix
Posted on December 1, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length short
Usually, I use the grep command/egrep command for code searching on my box. Recently, I come across another cool tool called ag. It is an attempt to make something better than ack, which itself is better than grep command. Let us see how to install and use the ag tool on Unix-like operating systems. By Vivek Gite.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure devops-and-ci-cd software-engineering
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RPC over RabbitMQ (with Elixir)
Posted on November 24, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
At Community we use RabbitMQ, a lot. It's the infrastructure backbone that allows our services (over forty at this point) to communicate with each other. That mostly happens through events (since we have an event-sourced system), but in some cases what we need is a request-response interaction between two services. By Andrea Leopardi.
Tags backend-development software-engineering frontend-and-mobile product-and-design
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Server-Side development with Kotlin: Frameworks and libraries
Posted on November 23, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
It is quite common to use existing frameworks and libraries for backend application development. If we look at most of the popular frameworks in the Java ecosystem, many of them actually support Kotlin out of the box. There are a lot of Java libraries too. You can use these frameworks and libraries in your Kotlin programs thanks to Kotlin's flawless Java interoperability. By Anton Arhipov.
Tags backend-development software-engineering
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A sysadmin's guide to containerizing applications
Posted on November 15, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Curious how to containerize your Linux applications? Learn by example, and understand the challenges of various application types and how to overcome them. By Scott McCarty (Red Hat, Sudoer).
Tags software-engineering cloud-and-infrastructure devops-and-ci-cd how-to leadership-and-career
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What is Ask Pattern in Akka?
Posted on November 13, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length short
In Akka, ask is a pattern and involves Actors as well as Futures. Ask is used to sends a message asynchronously and it returns a Future which represents a possible reply. If the actor does not reply and complete the future, it will expire after the timeout period. After the timeout period, it throws a TimeoutException. By Purva Agrawal.
Tags architecture-and-apis data-and-analytics backend-development software-engineering
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In search for future of cloud storage, researchers look to holographic storage solutions
Posted on November 11, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Data storage has always been a key tenet of compute, and with the massive growth in cloud compute, the demand for cloud data storage has opened an avenue for both revisiting prior technologies and developing new ones. It is projected that around 125 zettabytes of data will be generated annually by 2024, and storing this in a cost-effective way is going to be a big challenge. By Benn Thomsen , Senior Principal Researcher Dushyanth Narayanan , Senior Principal Researcher Ant Rowstron , Distinguished Engineer / Deputy Lab Director.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure software-engineering miscellaneous ai-and-machine-learning
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DevSecOps – Dynamic analysis DAST with OWASP ZAP and Jenkins
Posted on November 8, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) also called Black Box Testing is a testing practice that will test the application by executing your web application. As we know, In SAST, a Web application will be tested inside the application which doesn't even require that the application should be running. By Prabhu Vignesh Kumar Rajagopal.
Tags software-engineering devops-and-ci-cd frontend-and-mobile security-and-privacy
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Rust vs Go
Posted on November 7, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length long
Which is better, Rust or Go? Which language should you choose for your next project, and why? How do the two compare in areas like performance, simplicity, safety, features, scale, and concurrency? By John Arundel.
Tags software-engineering backend-development leadership-and-career
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YAML for beginners
Posted on November 4, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
YAML is an easy, expressive, data-oriented language that distinguishes itself from document markup languages. By Seth Kenlon @RedHat.
Tags software-engineering frontend-and-mobile product-and-design miscellaneous
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Going from JavaScript to WebAssembly in three steps
Posted on November 3, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
It is vital that the performance on the client's browser is as good as possible. The reason for this is very simple: when you are being told a story, or watching a movie, even a single frameskip immediately takes you out of your experience. By Marcel Duin.
Tags frontend-and-mobile miscellaneous software-engineering
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How the HotSpot and Graal JVMs execute Java code
Posted on November 2, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
James Gough explores the subsystems that are involved in interpreting, compiling and executing a Hello World Application. He dives into JIT compilation and the arrival of the JVM Compiler Interface to explore how optimizations are applied to boost the performance. He discusses HotSpot, explores Graal and the JVM ecosystem to discover performance benefits of a platform 25 years in the making.
Tags backend-development product-and-design software-engineering miscellaneous
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Getting started with DevOps automation
Posted on October 31, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Automation is one of the key principles for accelerating with DevOps. It enables consistency, reliability, and efficiency within the organization, making it easier for teams to discover and troubleshoot problems. By Jared Murrell.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd leadership-and-career cloud-and-infrastructure software-engineering