Tag: Software
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How to monitor packet loss and latency in the cloud
Posted on September 29, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
NetOps teams have quickly learned the benefits of hosting applications in the cloud. But before they migrated or adopted a few SaaS applications, they knew in the back of their minds that monitoring performance would be difficult. A tiny voice was asking, "How will we monitor packet loss and connection latency, hop-by-hop, when using cloud applications?". By Kevin Woods, Head of Product Marketing.
Tags monitoring software how-to devops cloud
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Authenticated boot and disk encryption on Linux
Posted on September 28, 2021, Level advanced Resource Length long
Linux has been supporting Full Disk Encryption (FDE) and technologies such as UEFI SecureBoot and TPMs for a long time. However, the way they are set up by most distributions is not as secure as they should be, and in some ways quite frankly weird. In fact, right now, your data is probably more secure if stored on current ChromeOS, Android, Windows or MacOS devices, than it is on typical Linux distributions. By Pid Eins.
Tags linux software how-to infosec
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How are client hints really useful for web performance
Posted on August 28, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length long
Client Hints are HTTP request header fields that a server can request from a client in order to get information about the client's device, network, etc. The server can then determine the type of data to be displayed according to the client information received. By Hargunbeer Singh.
Tags apis devops software web-development performance
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Top new features of Cucumber JVM v6
Posted on August 27, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length long
Behavior Driven Development or BDD is one of the magical terms that many organizations are looking for today. The influence of the BDD methodology has significantly impacted the way the development model works. Its powerful business-driven approach has helped many teams collaborate with different stakeholders to define a better requirement. By Giridhar Rajkumar.
Tags tdd java software performance web-development
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Combine functional and object oriented programming
Posted on July 29, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length short
There are many languages that support both functional and object-oriented programming (OOP) such as Javascript, C#, Scala ... In my case, learning functional programming (FP) from OOP experience creates some confusion on how to best use functional and OOP together. By Thang Le.
Tags programming software javascript app-development functional-programming
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Blender Bot 2.0: Open source chatbot that builds long-term memory and searches the internet
Posted on July 23, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Facebook AI Research has built and open-sourced BlenderBot 2.0, the first chatbot that can simultaneously build long-term memory it can continually access, search the internet for timely information. By Facebook.
Tags bots software web-development machine-learning open-source
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How Kaizen can create a culture of continuous improvement
Posted on July 12, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
The Japanese manufacturing industry is renowned for their methods of process improvement. It's introduced us to methods such as Kanban and Lean. Another approach that's proven to be popular amongst businesses who want to achieve business improvement is Kaizen. By Dinnie Muslihat.
Tags teams agile cio software performance
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Greykite: A flexible, intuitive, and fast forecasting library
Posted on May 29, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
In this blog post, we introduce the Greykite library, an open source Python library developed to support LinkedIn's forecasting needs. Its main forecasting algorithm, called Silverkite, is fast, accurate, and intuitive, making it suitable for interactive and automated forecasting at scale. Co-authors: Reza Hosseini, Albert Chen, Kaixu Yang, Sayan Patra, Rachit Arora, and Parvez Ahammad.
Tags python open-source software big-data machine-learning
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Introducing Kubewarden, an open source policy engine
Posted on May 28, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Security has always been a wide and complex topic. A recent survey from StackRox about the state of containers and Kubernetes security provides some interesting data on these topics. By Flavio Castelli.
Tags open-source kubernetes software containers devops infosec
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The 10 best practices for remote software engineering
Posted on May 27, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
At face value, when we think of developer productivity we might think of effectiveness in time management, communication, and task completion. By Vanessa Sochat.
Tags agile software miscellaneous teams management cio
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Product analytics at startups
Posted on May 26, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length long
A solid product analytics stack is the foundation of data-driven culture. Behavioral data enables a development team to track results, connect feature improvements to outcomes, and measure progress to inform decision making. By Julia Enthoven and Shah Ahmed.
Tags analytics software startups cio management
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Bad bot traffic breaks records in 2020
Posted on May 18, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length short
Bad bots have long been a major illness plaguing the internet. As internet traffic reached new heights throughout the global pandemic, unfortunately so did bot traffic. By Erez Hasson.
Tags bots infosec analytics web-development software