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With COVID-19 the efficiency of remote work became a high-priority task for many organizations. Along with it came the challenges of making sure that continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) deployments perform at the highest levels. The experience of a Tier 1 web firm in satisfying seemingly incompatible requirements of making all elements of the CI/CD…

We’re about to transition from the cloud computing era to the “sky computing” era, according to a pair of distinguished computer science professors at University of California Berkeley, Ion Stoica and Scott Shenker. As the name suggests, sky computing is a layer above cloud platforms — and its goal is to enable interoperability between clouds.…

Many of the relationships we have online don’t have to be long-lived. Ephemeral relationships, offering virtual anonymity, are technically possible without a loss of functionality or convenience. Why don’t they exist? Surveillance is profitable.

Say we have a function which creates a user, and handles some specific setup depending on whether that user is an admin or a customer:

The terms Loose Coupling and High Cohesion seem to go hand in hand: the two concepts were coined together and if you’re talking about one, the other will typically come up as well. Similarly, the concepts of DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) and Wrong Abstraction go hand in hand: for example one person says we should DRY this code up and the other says they considered it but they don’t want to create the Wrong Abstraction. I rarely hear these two sets of concepts in the same conversation, which surprises me because they are really talking about the same thing.

Serverless architectures provide you with the benefits of automation and unlimited scale potential. It gives developers the freedom to deploy code quickly, which accelerates time to market while making it easier to maintain and test individual functions. With no infrastructure involved, serverless architectures are ready and available out of the box. As an added benefit,…

HTML Best Practices for Writing Maintainable and Scalable Document or Page.

https://PlatformSecuritySummit.com/2019/speaker/chen Every game console since the first Atari was more or less designed to prevent the piracy of games and yet every single game console has been successfully modified to enable piracy. However, this trend has come to an end. Both the Xbox One and the PS4 have now been on the market for close to 6 years, without hackers being able to crack the system to enable piracy or cheating. This is the first time in history that game consoles have lasted this long without being cracked to enable piracy. In this talk, we will discuss how we achieved this for the Xbox One. We will first describe the Xbox security design goals and why it needs to guard against hardware attacks, followed by descriptions of the hardware and software architecture to keep the Xbox secure. This includes details about the custom SoC we built with AMD and how we addressed the fact that all data read from flash, the hard drive, and even DRAM cannot be trusted. We will also discuss the corresponding software changes we made to keep the system and the games secure.

A new study shows that artificial intelligence networks based on human brain connectivity can perform cognitive tasks efficiently.

In this era of hyperscaler and cloud builder titans, their seven of whom account for about half of the IT infrastructure bought in the world, it is

While it’s possible to understand Apple’s motivations behind its decision to enable on-device scanning, the company had a better way to satisfy its societal obligations while preserving…

Amtrack might—finally—have the funds, but it lacks necessary experience.

And you can use it in a pen!

Asra Ali, Appu Goundan

Whenever you run into a network problem, the wise network admin or sysadmin always remembers "It's always DNS [Domain Name Service]." Because, well, it often is DNS. So, we should be surprised when at the Black Hat USA 2021 security conference cloud security firm Wiz Chief Technology Officer Ami Luttwak and head of research Shir…

Structured logs are important for software debugging. Gladly, it is super easy to implement in Golang

Once you’re in a slot, it’s harder and harder to move out of it. The status quo is here because it’s good at persisting. One option, particularly if you’re on your own, is t…

In this article, we explore how Microsoft utilizes the “Making Every Feature Binary” approach to increase the performance of the Bing Search.

Utopia is like a John Lennon song but with golden toilets.

In a recent blog post on the Google Security Blog, Google Kernel Security Engineer Kees Cook penned a call to arms by the title of "Linux Kernel Security Done Right" for organizations that rely on Linux but don't contribute to the upstream Linux kernel. In the post, Cook argues that many of these organizations are…

Agile lacks the lustre it once had in the eyes of many software engineers. They've developed cynicism where optimism should thrive.

A new angle on why workers lose out as globalization increases.