System Architecture

Dear Lazyweb, how do I forward my employees' email to their gmail accounts and have it get there? To recap, my domain hosts its own SMTP server running Postfix, and /etc/postfix/virtual contains a bunch of entries forwarding "[email protected]" to whatever their actual email address is, usually gmail. This has been mostly working fine for a decade or so, but lately there have been ...

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Fast, easy and reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser. Install Cypress in seconds and take the pain out of front-end testing.

Introduction article to the data structure. Stack concept and examples applied to the Javascript language.

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[Updated on 2021-09-19: Highly recommend this blog post on score-based generative modeling by Yang Song (author of several key papers in the references)]. [Updated on 2022-08-27: Added classifier-free guidance, GLIDE, unCLIP and Imagen. [Updated on 2022-08-31: Added latent diffusion model. So far, I’ve written about three types of generative models, GAN, VAE, and Flow-based models. They have shown great success in generating high-quality samples, but each has some limitations of its own.

In this latest entry of our Maintenance Matters series, we'll discuss Continuous Integration: what, why, and how.

RapidFort goes beyond SCA scans. Our container optimization platform finds and eliminates unused container components and hardens containers so you spend less time on vulnerability remediation. Build a secure container infrastructure and deploy smaller containers for faster load times all while bolstering security posture.

bandit is the name of an HTTP server I’ve been writing over the past several months. It is written entirely in Elixir and supports HTTP/1.x and HTTP/2 over both secure and unsecure connections. As of version 0.3.2 (released today!), it should support almost all HTTP client connections, although full HTTP/2 compliance is still a work in progress (it currently scores 75% on the h2spec suite, with plans for 100% compliance by the end of the 0.3.x release train).

The modern enterprise IT environment is a sprawling, widely distributed, multi-tentacled beast that encompasses not only the traditional datacenter but

Databases and datastores are by far the stickiest things in the datacenter. Companies make purchasing decisions that end up lasting for one, two, and

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Here’s the handy thing about cash: it gives customers scale. It does that by working the same way for everybody, everywhere it’s accepted. It’s also anonymous by nature, meaning i…

For sixteen years, ProjectVRM has encouraged development of tools and services that solve business problems from the customer side. This work is toward testing a theory: that free customers are mor…

GitOps practices promote storing all your configs in git repositories. Learn how to store your secrets in plain text.

SD is 1-week old, a cambrian explosion is underway. Check 23+ curated tools, services and user interfaces.

If we attach a cost to every software feature, could we use the usage as a proxy for demand?

D2 is a domain-specific language (DSL) that stands for Declarative Diagramming. Declarative, as in, you write in text what you want diagrammed, we generate it.

Renovate is a free tool by Mend that allows automating dependency updates in software projects. Fully customizable with a setting to suit every workflow.

Automated dependency updates built into GitHub. Dependabot has 24 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

I won’t introduce Dependabot. Lots and lots of developers use it daily on GitHub. I do use it as well. However, it suffers from two…

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