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Scale Up to a Collaborative and Multiplayer Architecture With Edge Messaging

Aggregated on: Thu Jul 07 2022 20:21:26 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

There's unprecedented demand for multiplayer products. That is, products with features that support real-time, shared live and collaborative experiences between users. There's been explosive growth in the unified communications and collaboration sector through the pandemic, but collaboration isn't just about the Zooms and Slacks of the world. Remote-first and hybrid workplaces are increasingly common and have fueled growth in apps that provide a shared live experience for project collaborations where users are not physically co-located. Taking an application that's designed to be single-user and screen-sharing it with a collaborator over a conference call could at best be viewed as entry-level collaboration. The growth of collaborative experiences is highly competitive.

How to Scale Agile and DevOps for New Levels of Competitiveness

Aggregated on: Thu Jul 07 2022 18:51:26 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

97% of companies expect to keep some level of remote working post-pandemic. So, to stay competitive, companies must speed up application integration, development, and delivery. To adapt to changing customer needs and market opportunities, companies need flexibility. Because of this, many companies are turning to agile and DevOps - those that master them see a 60% higher revenue and profit growth than their competitors.

Continuous Delivery Pipeline Security Essentials

Aggregated on: Thu Jul 07 2022 17:36:26 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

As the threat landscape continuously evolves, it is crucial for organizations to adopt a shift left for security mindset — ensuring that security is prioritized and its importance equated to that of automation and collaboration among distributed teams.In this Refcard, you’ll review the challenges associated with integrating security practices into a continuous delivery pipeline, including the blockers development teams in particular often face. Also covered are the key areas to consider when administering and maintaining security of CD pipelines.

A Complete Guide to Cloud Security Testing: What It Is, Importance, Benefits, Cloud Security Testing Methodology, and More

Aggregated on: Thu Jul 07 2022 15:51:26 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Cloud security testing is an essential part of cloud computing. Cloud-based security testing can help organizations detect and prevent breaches, protect their data and improve their compliance posture. In this comprehensive guide, we will discuss what cloud security testing is, its importance, benefits, features, components, how to perform security testing in the cloud, and more! Cloud Security — What Is It? Cloud security entails taking precautions to safeguard data, applications, and infrastructure stored or accessed via the cloud. Cloud security includes both physical and logical security measures. Physical security measures protect the hardware and facilities used to store and access cloud-based data. Logical security measures protect the data itself from unauthorized access, use, or modification.

Two Principles of Geometric Deep Learning

Aggregated on: Thu Jul 07 2022 15:21:26 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

After CNNs exploded in 2012, showing unprecedented levels of prediction accuracy on image classification tasks, a group of researchers from Yann LeCun's team decided to extend their success to other, more exotic domains. Specifically, they started working on generalizing convnets to graphs. Their efforts were described in this influential paper. Since then, Graph Neural Networks have become a hot area of research within the ML community and beyond. Numerous papers have been published explaining how different kinds and flavors of GNNs can be applied to complicated, irregular, high-dimensional, non-grid-like structures (graphs, manifolds, meshes, etc.).

Data Quality Metrics to Know and Measure

Aggregated on: Thu Jul 07 2022 14:51:26 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

The most important characteristic for any organization is not data; it is quality data. In a study, IBM estimated that bad data costs the U.S. economy $3.1 trillion per year. Such costs are incurred when your employees spend time cleaning data or rectifying the errors caused by bad data. Apart from financial costs, bad data becomes a source of dissatisfaction and discontent between you and your customers, partners, and other business relationships. This clearly explains the importance of housing quality data in your organization. But what exactly is it, and how can you measure data quality? Let’s take a look.

App Developers Are the First Line of Defense Against Cyberattacks

Aggregated on: Thu Jul 07 2022 14:21:26 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

A growing number of developers are creating new apps dedicated to improving cybersecurity. Their work is going to be even more important than ever as cyberattacks become a greater threat. In order to thwart would-be cybercriminals, app developers need to understand how these crimes are conducted. You can find more information about this below.

Kafka vs. JMS: Which One Should You Be Using?

Aggregated on: Wed Jul 06 2022 22:06:25 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Two of the most popular message brokers used today are Kafka and those based around JMS. JMS is a long-standing Java API used generally for developing messaging applications, with its primary function of being able to send messages between two or more clients. Kafka, on the other hand, is a distributed streaming platform that provides a lot of scalabilities and is useful for real-time data processing. While both offer their own advantages and are highly useful in their own right, which of the two should you be actually using?

Now It's Time to Uncomplicate With the Not-So-New API in Java

Aggregated on: Wed Jul 06 2022 21:36:25 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Dealing with dates or any operations that deal with time as a unit of measurement is always a big challenge. It is no different within the Java world; however, since Java 8, the new date API brings several improvements. This article will understand more about the complexity of working with dates and how useful Java's date API is.

Is Sustainability the New Security and Compliance?

Aggregated on: Wed Jul 06 2022 21:36:25 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Digital transformation is making every business faster, smarter, and more connected. At the same time, it’s also putting pressure on businesses to reduce their environmental footprint and make sure that their IT operations are socially responsible. Are we at a point where we were with security five years ago, where you can no longer ignore the importance of social governance in your IT environment? Data Security & Compliance When I began conducting interviews with IT executives for DZone in 2015, GDPR and data security were only the concern of CIOs and CTOs -- there weren't many CISOs then. Data security was a nuisance to CEOs, CSOs, and COOs. IT just needed to "handle it."

Lessons Learned in Cloud Security From Lapsus$ Surfacing

Aggregated on: Wed Jul 06 2022 21:36:25 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Over the past few days, new information about the Lapsus$ cybercrime group has surfaced and provided fresh insights into the actual practices of cyber security adversaries. While it’s not clear exactly who they are (it’s been reported that the mastermind behind this group could be a teenager!) or the extent of their accomplishments - cloud security practitioners, can already learn a lot about the best practices that reduce the threat from groups like Lapsus$. You can read a lot about the activity of Lapsus$ elsewhere (most notably, we recommend the post on the Microsoft Security Blog and the post by KerbsOnSecurity) and the detailed response by Okta’s CSO about their incident, so what we’ll try to do here is outline a few quick effective action items/lessons you can take away from this incident to improve the security posture of your cloud environment.

Using Insomnia to Upgrade Dependencies — With Confidence

Aggregated on: Wed Jul 06 2022 21:36:25 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Demo app: “Is Today My Birthday” Always keep your dependencies up to date. When you don’t upgrade, you miss out on bug fixes, security patches, and new features. You may even be up against an “end of life” deadline if the version of a package you use will soon no longer be supported. If upgrading dependencies is so important, why don’t many developers do it? They may not know-how, or they may not understand the benefits of upgrading, or they may not feel like they have the time. Or, they may be afraid.

Web Application Testing Guide for Beginners

Aggregated on: Wed Jul 06 2022 20:21:25 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

The internet, World Wide Web (WWW) or simply the web, is the most revolutionary information technology and application development platform in the world. The present world economy majorly depends on the web. The simplest way to conceptualize it is that it is a network of interconnected nodes called servers and clients, exchanging data over well-defined protocols like TCP/IP, HTTP, FTP, etc. Read more about its inception and specifications.

What Developers Need to Know About Table Partition Maintenance

Aggregated on: Wed Jul 06 2022 20:21:25 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Table partitioning is a very convenient technique supported by several databases including MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and YugabyteDB. In the first article of this series, we discussed an application that automates the operations of a large pizza chain. We reviewed how PostgreSQL improves the application’s performance with the partition pruning feature by eliminating unnecessary partitions from the query execution plan. In this article, we’ll examine how PostgreSQL’s partition maintenance capabilities can further influence and simplify the architecture of your apps. We’ll again take the pizza chain app as an example, whose database schema comes with the PizzaOrders table. To remind you, the table tracks the order’s progress (table data is explained in the first article):

The Top Secrets to Become a Successful Remote Software Developer

Aggregated on: Wed Jul 06 2022 19:51:25 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” -Winston Churchill. The remote working model has seen a significant rise during the pandemic years and is still being continued worldwide. A recent survey states that 77% of developers find themselves more productive while working remotely. This hype has brought tremendous opportunities for remote developers in the global market.

10 Computer Vision Applications for Today's World

Aggregated on: Wed Jul 06 2022 19:21:25 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Computer vision applications enable machine learning models to recognize, analyze, and comprehend data from digital photos and videos. It allows artificial intelligence (AI) models to “see” the world around them. Machine and deep learning advances have been crucial to the success of computer vision programs. From object identification to picture production, to style transfer, to image captioning–computer vision and the applications of computer vision have created a new world of opportunities for those building AI models for practical applications.

Fine-Grained Access Control — What's All the Buzz About?

Aggregated on: Wed Jul 06 2022 18:06:25 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Authorization has become quite a hot topic: Intuit, Airbnb, Google, and others have recently described the architectural challenges surrounding authorization at scale and the solutions that they’ve built internally to address them. As a developer of a B2B SaaS application, you may be scratching your head about how this is relevant to you. Early on in your application’s lifecycle, these challenges may not be obvious: your application typically starts with “regular users” and “admins”; for admin-level operations, you write some code to check whether the logged-in user has admin rights. Life is simple.

How to Handle JavaScript Alert in Selenium WebDriver Using Python?

Aggregated on: Tue Jul 05 2022 21:06:25 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Alert windows are widely used across websites where an alert message acts as a mode to ‘interrupt’ the current flow of the user journey. A simple example of a JavaScript alert would be someone filling in details on the sign-up page and submitting the details without entering some mandatory information. This user flow also needs to be verified when Selenium automation testing is performed on the web product. Handling pop-ups and alerts are one of the common test scenarios that should be tested using Selenium WebDriver. In this post of the Selenium Python tutorial series, we look at how to handle JavaScript alerts in Python. It is worth mentioning that the core fundamentals of JavaScript alerts and popups remain unchanged irrespective of the programming language used for Selenium.

CIO Guide for Operational and Business Benefits of DevOps

Aggregated on: Tue Jul 05 2022 20:06:24 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

The rising demands of end-users have forced businesses to face many challenges to increase their operational efficiency and productivity. Also, the continuous evolution in the market plays a handy part in pressuring businesses to achieve optimal results. To overcome and eliminate all those hassles, businesses can prefer a DevOps culture that brings collaborative work nature to their team. This blog is about briefing DevOps and its benefits (Operational & Business) for an organization.

Building Reactive Java Applications with Spring Framework

Aggregated on: Tue Jul 05 2022 19:36:25 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

If you’re a Java developer who uses the Spring ecosystem, you’ve probably seen the Spring Pet Clinic. In this workshop, we will walk you through a new reactive implementation of the Pet Clinic backend that uses Spring WebFlux and Apache Cassandra® (via DataStax Astra DB). The cloud-native database-as-a-service built on Cassandra fits the highly concurrent, non-blocking nature of our reactive application. We’ll do all of our work in the cloud with Gitpod’s open-source, zero-install and collaborative development environment.

How Intrinsic Type Manipulations Work in TypeScript

Aggregated on: Tue Jul 05 2022 19:36:25 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Did you know that TypeScript comes with a bunch of built-in string manipulator types? That means we can easily transform a string type into uppercase, lowercase, or capitalized versions of itself. When might this be useful? In lots of situations where you have a fixed set of string values, for example, whenever you have a set of strings from an object using something like keyof. To transform a string into a different version by defining a new type along with one of the type manipulators. For example, below, we transform myType into the capitalized version:

Why More Incidents Are Better

Aggregated on: Tue Jul 05 2022 19:36:25 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

As most SREs how many incidents they’d have to respond to in a perfect world, and their answer would probably be “zero.” After all, making software and infrastructure so reliable that incidents never occur is the dream that SREs are theoretically chasing. Reducing actual incidents as much as possible is a noble goal. However, it’s important to recognize that incidents aren’t an SRE’s number one enemy. What matters more than the number of incidents you experience is how effectively you respond to each one.

Document Annotation, Its Industry Significance, and Best Practices

Aggregated on: Tue Jul 05 2022 19:06:25 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

By images and document annotation, we mean the process of identifying fields and values within a document in order to extract useful information. By using AI and machine learning algorithms, data sets in files can be categorized and extracted automatically without the need for manual intervention. When you mark up documents, you can easily find the information you are searching for without having to comb through the entire document. Data can be structured and shown in a clear and comprehensible format that other users can understand and appreciate as well. Image annotation traditionally is handled by specialized staff, with innovations in technology, OCR, and RPA eliminating the need for employees to look up information in documents manually and freeing up workers for more productive tasks.

Benchmarking PostgreSQL Workloads on Kubernetes

Aggregated on: Tue Jul 05 2022 17:36:24 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Kubernetes used to be a platform that could only host stateless workloads, and while this has mostly changed with up to 90% believing Kubernetes is ready for stateful workloads, "databases like PostgreSQL cannot run on Kubernetes" is something that you can still hear. However, Gabriele Bartolini, Vice President of Cloud Native for EDB, and Francesco Canovai, System Engineer for 2ndQuadrant, think otherwise. But they don’t want us to take their words for granted. If a company is considering running Postgres on Kubernetes, the first question they should ask is “why”. Once the goal is figured out, benchmarking the setup is a great way to ensure that it will be performed as needed.

How to Use Automatic Mixed Precision Training in Deep Learning

Aggregated on: Tue Jul 05 2022 16:51:24 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Why Use Mixed Precision Deep Learning? As advancements have been made in the field of deep learning, the discussion about mixed-precision training of deep learning models has seen a similar increase. These improvements and natural evolution of the scope, sequence, and raw power of neural networks mean that the size of these models has had to increase to compensate accordingly. Larger and more complicated deep learning models require advancements in technology and approach. This has led to multi-GPU setups with distributed training which can get out of hand quickly as more GPUs are integrated into training. Getting back to the basic training principles of deep learning and brushing up on fundamental techniques can ease the stress of the training phase of neural networks and optimize GPU usage. Mixed precision training or automatic mixed precision training can be a simple way to do exactly this.

Getting Your Developers to See Value With a Great Developer Experience

Aggregated on: Tue Jul 05 2022 16:21:24 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

One of the beauties of working with APIs is their convenient and practical ways to share data and applications. APIs have enabled a transformational shift from an interface that relied on custom integrations to now a relatively streamlined process. That said, because of their agile framework, some companies have overlooked the importance of providing a great developer integration experience and are not taking the necessary steps to help drive the Time To First Hello World. Unfortunately, it’s an all too common sentiment surrounding API management that the integration should be left to a hyper-intelligent developer to figure out and that standard onboarding workflows are unnecessary luxuries. However, this is a misguided notion; developers don’t want to be treated as second-class citizens; they want to be shown how to integrate and would appreciate the convenience of streamlined workflows.

Event-Driven Order Processing Program

Aggregated on: Tue Jul 05 2022 15:51:24 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Following the Hello World example of a simple, independently deployable real-time Event-Driven microservice, this article looks at a more realistic example of an Order Processor with a New Order Single in and an Execution Report out. A New Order Single is a standard message type for the order of one asset in the FIX protocol used widely by financial institutions such as banks. The reply is typically one or more Execution Reports updating the status of that order.

DevOps for Enterprise — Are You Doing It Right?

Aggregated on: Tue Jul 05 2022 15:51:24 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

The development of a product or application is a lengthy process and involves various steps that need thorough checking at several stages. An enterprise needs a system that can help them manage this development process and make it faster and more efficient. DevOps is the process implemented in large-scale organizations that help them in achieving higher productivity, operational efficiency, optimized results, etc. It is a set of tools, approaches, and practices that allows the combination of the developmental and operational capabilities for rapid product development.

A Simple Guide to Rust Data Types

Aggregated on: Tue Jul 05 2022 15:51:24 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Every programming language depends on data types. The same goes for the Rust programming language. Rust data types cover the various needs of storing data. Since Rust is a statically typed language, data types become even more important. The Rust compiler uses the data types at the compilation time to make sure that the program is correct. Rust data types are divided into two major types: scalar and compound. We will look at both types in detail.

Saving Memory In Java: Making The Smallest Memory Footprint

Aggregated on: Tue Jul 05 2022 15:51:24 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Articles To Read Before We Start I've already written articles about memory estimation. The first one explains how to calculate memory for objects, arrays, etc. The second one shows tools for how to estimate recursively any object size. Before you begin this article, I strongly recommend you read the first ones. Otherwise, it would be a bit difficult to understand how I calculate the size of objects. This article will cover the next tricks and topics:

Understanding OAuth 2.0

Aggregated on: Mon Jul 04 2022 17:06:24 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

In a traditional client-server authentication model, a resource owner shares their credentials with the client so that the client can access its resources when necessary. The client does that by passing the resource owner's credentials to the resource server, and the resource server validates the same before providing access to the protected resource(s). Simple, right? Well, there are a bunch of problems associated with this model, a few of which are listed below:

NativeScript vs. Flutter: A Comparison for Tech Businesses and Entrepreneurs

Aggregated on: Mon Jul 04 2022 16:36:24 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

With the growing demand for lifestyle and communication apps, mobile app development has become a booming industry. Building apps for both iOS and Android requires having two different teams with different skill sets. This can be a challenge for companies that might not have the resources to invest in two other teams. This process can be pretty time-consuming and expensive, but there is a solution. Cross-platform app development with technology like Flutter and NativeScript can be a more cost-effective solution.

Everything You Need to Know About Building MVP With React and Firebase

Aggregated on: Mon Jul 04 2022 16:06:24 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

While a concept is in the ideation phase, it is wise to simplify and build a minimal core to see if it works per your needs. Moreover, a prototype will assist in knowing if there is any market for your product before you lose your resources. The creation of this minimal core is known as ‘Minimal Viable Product’ or MVP. Let us learn how to create an MVP using React and Firebase. Why Should You Use Firebase? Firebase is a well-equipped platform that serves as backend development software. Firebase provides various important options all under one software and helps to embrace

Building an E-Commerce API Using Nestjs, SQLite, and TypeORM

Aggregated on: Sun Jul 03 2022 17:36:23 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Introduction Nestjs is a cutting-edge Node.js framework for developing server-side applications that are efficient, dependable, and scalable. It is simple to integrate with NoSQL and SQL databases such as MongoDB, Yugabyte, SQLite, Postgres, MySQL, and others. It supports popular object-relational mappers such as TypeORM Sequelize and Mongoose. In this tutorial, we'll create an e-commerce application with SQLite and TypeORM. We'll also look at Arctype, a powerful SQL client and database management tool.

Architecture as Code With C4 and Plantuml

Aggregated on: Sun Jul 03 2022 17:06:23 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Introduction I'm lucky enough to currently work on a large microservices-based project as a solution architect. I'm responsible for designing different architecture views, each targeting very different audiences, hence different preoccupations: The application view dealing with modules and data streams between them (targeting product stakeholders and developers) The software view (design patterns, database design rules, choice of programming languages, libraries...) that developers should rely upon; The infrastructure view (middleware, databases, network connections, storage, operations...) providing useful information for integrators and DevOps engineers; The sizing view dealing with performance; The security view, which is mainly transversal. NOTE

Are Foreign Keys Unscalable?

Aggregated on: Sun Jul 03 2022 16:36:23 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

If you find yourself reading this post, there are very good chances that you find yourself in the shoes of a MySQL database administrator, a database-savvy developer, or even a sysadmin. If you're reading this post, also chances are that you know a couple of things about storage engines, indexes, partitioning, normalization, search engines helping you secure your data, and whatnot. In this blog, we will dive deeper into the correlation between big data and foreign keys on MySQL.

Screen Sharing in Java

Aggregated on: Sun Jul 03 2022 15:36:23 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Remote screen sharing is used in various applications and services, from web conferencing to remote access applications. A back-office employee can use it to consult a colleague on the frontline or a technical support specialist can use it to see exactly what their client sees. You may go with a third-party application like a TeamViewer. But what if you need to have the remote access capabilities right in your Java application? In this case, you may want to go the other direction.

Unified Observability Exporters: Metrics, Logs, and Tracing

Aggregated on: Sun Jul 03 2022 15:36:23 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

This is the second in a series of blogs discussing unified observability with microservices and the Oracle database. The first piece went into the fundamentals and basic use cases. This second blog will take a deeper dive into the Metrics, Logs, and Tracing exporters (which can be found at https://github.com/oracle/oracle-db-appdev-monitoring), describing them and showing how to configure them, Grafana, alerts, etc. I will also refer the reader to the latest version of the Unified Observability in Grafana Workshop that has just been published which demonstrates the principles, provides code and configuration examples, etc. All of the code for the workshop can also be found at the https://github.com/oracle/microservices-datadriven repos (specifically in the observability directory). Particularly with the dawn of microservices, robust observability is an absolute requirement, and the better the tools and techniques used in the space, the more effective and enjoyable observability is for the (DevOps) user and thus the focus on this key area.

3 Approaches To Connecting With Snowflake Using MuleSoft Connectors

Aggregated on: Sat Jul 02 2022 21:36:22 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Using available MuleSoft connectors, there are three approaches that we can use to operate on the Snowflake platform: Using MuleSoft Snowflake Connector Using DataSource with MuleSoft Database connector With MuleSoft connector with database generic connection All the above have their benefits in preparing a connection with Snowflake as a source system, which we will discuss in the sections below.

How to Manage a Red Hat MicroShift Cluster with Shipa

Aggregated on: Sat Jul 02 2022 17:51:22 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

For developers working with low-resource environments that nevertheless wish to harness the full advantages of Kubernetes, the open-source Red Hat MicroShift project and Shipa (an application-as-code platform you can spin up for free) offer a rather compelling pairing. In this article, I’ll take you through the steps of using MicroShift to set up a lightweight Kubernetes distribution, and then manage the same cluster using the “free forever” version of Shipa Cloud. But first, why MicroShift? A research project started by Red Hat, MicroShift is built for running Kubernetes clusters in environments with tight resource constraints, such as edge and IoT devices. It’s a memory-optimized lightweight flavor of OpenShift/Kubernetes, and currently supports Fedora, RHEL, and CentOS Linux distributions. Shipa fits in here by helping solve some of the usual problems faced by developers and platform operators. It lets developers focus on what they’re good at and want to do (building applications) and reduces the time platform operators spend on deployments and governance. Onboarding MicroShift to Shipa offers some nice benefits by making it possible to manage multiple clusters from an administration and operations perspective.

How to Use MQTT in PHP

Aggregated on: Sat Jul 02 2022 17:21:22 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

PHP is a widely-used open source multi-purpose scripting language that can be embedded in HTML and is especially suitable for web development. This article mainly introduces how to use the php-mqtt/client client library in PHP projects to implement the functions of connection, subscription, unsubscribing, message receiving, and sending between the MQTT client and MQTT server.

Refactor Switch to a One-Liner

Aggregated on: Sat Jul 02 2022 16:51:22 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Intro In this article, we’ll take a look at why switch is almost never a good idea in OOP. We are going to look from different perspectives at how it affects the code, tests, and maintainability. Afterwards, we’ll do some refactoring on our existing code and analyse the benefits of the newly refactored code. We’ll see how almost any (no matter how long) switch can and should be converted to an elegant one-liner. All the source code used in this article can be found here, which has two branches — the un-refactored code (main) and the result after refactoring (feature/refactor-switch). switch Is Almost Never a Good Idea How many times have you come across some code that you need to add some changes to or modify something, and you do this?

7 Tips for Using Instrumentation and Metrics To Align Site Reliability With Business Goals

Aggregated on: Fri Jul 01 2022 21:36:22 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Before the acceleration of modern DevOps practices, software engineers primarily wrote code. Now the job is so much more — from getting apps production-ready and iterating quickly to scale new services to architecting system compatibility and ensuring compliance and reliability — which has elevated the need for exceptional instrumentation. But what does great instrumentation involve and where should you begin? I tackle the answer to this question in a new book on observability I co-authored along with Chronosphere’s co-founder and CEO, Martin Mao, and cloud-native expert, Kenichi Shibata — O’Reilly’s Cloud Native Monitoring: Practical Challenges and Solutions for Modern Architecture.

Learn the Weekly Rituals You Should Master as a Software Project Manager

Aggregated on: Fri Jul 01 2022 19:21:22 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Today, I'd like to cover the weekly life of a project manager. When I'm managing a project, these are the things I do every week: Identify the next milestone. Do you have a goal that is less than a month away? If not, make one up as soon as you can. Talk about the next milestone in every meeting with the team. Update your project plan. Schedule an hour or two every Friday to review and update your project plan. Update your risk registry. During your project planning time, update your risk registry. Send a weekly project update. After updating the project plan and risk registry, I send out an update that summarizes where things are with all the projects for which I'm responsible. Putting these things together will often require meetings or conversations, but having a concrete idea of what you're delivering each week can make it more clear what to focus on.

How to Classify NSFW (Not Safe for Work) Imagery with AI Content Moderation using Java

Aggregated on: Fri Jul 01 2022 18:51:22 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

The purpose of this article is to highlight some of the contemporary challenges in moderating degrees of explicit NSFW (Not Safe for Work) image content on websites and to demonstrate a cloud-based Artificial Intelligence Content Moderation API which can be deployed to increase the efficacy of the content moderation process. Pornographic images are typically banned on mainstream websites and professional networks. That’s because failing to ban such content means exposing website patrons and employees alike to unsolicited, sexually explicit imagery, which can amount to charges of sexual harassment, depending on how litigious your region of the world is. Enforcing a ban on such content is no small task, however, due to the large volume of image files that are uploaded to content-curating networks each day, and in part due to the difficulty of clearly defining policies against imagery which is some degree of sexually suggestive (i.e., content that is racy) rather than fully pornographic.

NextJS Vs React: Key Differences, Advantages and Limitations

Aggregated on: Fri Jul 01 2022 15:51:22 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Choosing the right programming language for a website or an application development has always been a hassle. When it comes to selecting between two awesome programming languages such as NextJS and React, it’s debatable. Both tools are best suited for creating web applications.

5 Best JavaScript Web Development Frameworks

Aggregated on: Fri Jul 01 2022 14:51:22 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

JavaScript is a very popular and powerful programming language that’s used with HTML and CSS to create the front end of a website. There are many frameworks of JavaScript, which are frontend and backend. In this article, we’ll discuss the 5 best JavaScript web development frameworks.

Understanding Kubernetes Resource Types

Aggregated on: Fri Jul 01 2022 00:36:25 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Note: This is the first of a five-part series covering Kubernetes resource management and optimization. We start by describing Kubernetes resource types. Before we dive into Kubernetes resources, let’s clarify what the term “resource” refers to here. Anything we create in a Kubernetes cluster is considered a resource: deployments, pods, services, and more. For this tutorial, we’ll focus on primary resources like CPU and memory, along with other resource types like ephemeral storage and extended resources.

MongoDB vs. DynamoDB Head-to-Head: Which Should You Choose?

Aggregated on: Fri Jul 01 2022 00:36:25 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Databases are a key architectural component of many applications and services. Traditionally, organizations have chosen relational databases like SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, and Postgres. Relational databases use tables and structured languages to store data. They usually have a fixed schema, strict data types, and formally-defined relationships between tables using foreign keys. They’re reliable, fast, and support checks and constraints that help enforce data integrity.

Using an Array as Function Parameter in JavaScript

Aggregated on: Thu Jun 30 2022 23:06:22 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

In Javascript, we often have data stored as arrays, and functions we want to call. Sometimes, the data in our arrays is exactly the data we want to pass to a function. Fortunately, there are ways in Javascript to use arrays as the input values for functions. Let's look at how to use arrays as function parameters. How to Use Arrays as Function Parameters When we have a function we want to pass an array to, the most basic way to do it would be like this: