Ransomware: When to pay (and when not to)
While most security professionals argue against paying the ransom, there are some cases where paying is the right choice for an organization. Learn what to consider, and how to decide.
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Threat intelligence and ransomware
Understand the latest ransomware delivery methods, use the latest network indicators, and detect the latest behavioral indicators.
Python Web Frameworks
This report surveys 30 Python web frameworks that have more than 1,000 monthly downloads and provides a deeper look into six of the most widely used.
Not another MNIST tutorial with TensorFlow
An informative, visual, and interactive MNIST tutorial.
5 simple tips for building your first Docker image with Java
Go beyond basic concepts and frameworks to get started with Docker the right way.
3 warning signs to help you save your CSS
Find three signs that you should be aware of for maintainable CSS. Catch them early and plan accordingly.
Website quality control
Why bother with quality control when building a website?
Strategies to validate your security detections
Machine learning to generate attack data and improve security analytics.
Why Reactive?
A deep dive into the technical aspects of reactive.
Securing application deployments in CI/CD environments
Binu Ramakrishnan highlights current security risks and CI/CD threat modeling and presents security patterns-based techniques to mitigate these risks, including a novel idea called auth events to delegate user privileges to CI/CD workflow jobs.
Learning How to Delegate as a Leader
This report examines the best ways to delegate work so you not only end up with successfully completed tasks, but also a team of cheerful people—including a cheerful you.
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A guide to Elasticsearch 5.0 and the ELK/Elastic Stack
Learn how to ship, parse, store, and analyze logs.
Using Linux tracing tools
Sasha Goldshtein reviews the modern tracing landscape—ftrace, perf_events, kprobes, uprobes, eBPF—uncovering what insight into system activity these tools can offer.
Repeatable sampling of data sets in BigQuery for machine learning
An efficient, fast, and repeatable selection method that works on very large data sets.
Using blocks in Ruby
With this excerpt from Head First Ruby, you’ll learn about Ruby blocks by looking at each concept from different angles.
How do you document your Arduino project designs?
Learn how to sketch out your electronic designs as schematics and understand how they map to real-world circuits.
What is the simplest way to clone an object in JavaScript?
Learn how to clone an object in JavaScript using the JSON.stringify, and Object.assign methods.
How do you check if an element is hidden in JavaScript?
Learn how to simplify your visibility search by nesting methods within CSS classes.
Running Consul at scale
Learn how Datadog integrated Consul into its environment. Darron Froese outlines mistakes made and lessons learned, plus tips for successful implementation in your own environment.
Complex neural networks made easy by Chainer
A define-by-run approach allows for flexibility and simplicity when building deep learning networks.
Implementing infrastructure as code
Learn how your team can implement a change-management pipeline to create a fast, reliable process for testing and hosting infrastructure for your microservices-based system.
Open source 101
Open source software is everywhere, but do you know where to start if you want to contribute, convince your manager your next project should be open source, or avoid recreating the wheel?
What is the correct JSON content type?
Learn about MIME types and how the browser and your JSON code interacts.
What href attribute should you use for JavaScript-only links?
Learn the best practices for adding JavaScript links to your code using buttons and divs.
How do you put a web server onto a tiny $10 Wi-Fi module?
Learn to serve web pages from the inexpensive and tiny ESP8266 module in a few lines of Arduino code.
How to build an app with client-side storage
A hands-on guide that demonstrates several storage APIs in action.
12 patterns for hypermedia service architecture
Open source software is everywhere, but do you know where to start if you want to contribute, convince your manager your next project should be open source, or avoid recreating the wheel?
Visualizing Value: How to Align Teams with Experience Mapping
Jim Kalbach explains how he uses maps as collaborative tools, highlighting the importance of value alignment, and demonstrates how to engage others in workshops and exercises.
TensorFlow for mobile poets
Running your image classifier in your own iOS application.
The myth of the sophisticated hack
Cracking the misconception that hacks are sophisticated and complex by breaking down the most common attack categories.
How do you correct a commit message in Git?
Learn how to fix a mistake using the “git commit -amend” command and understand when it is appropriate to force push a changed commit.
An introduction to Arista's MLAG
Combining two switches to look like one can be daunting and complex. Not with Arista. Learn how Arista's MLAG makes accomplishing this task very simple.
How do you check if one string contains a substring in JavaScript?
Learn eight methods for determining if a string contains a substring in JavaScript.
How do you check if an HTML form checkbox field is checked in JavaScript?
Learn how to verify if a checkbox or radio button is checked using the .checked property in JavaScript.
Introduction to designing for scalability with Erlang/OTP
Erlang/OTP is unique among programming languages and frameworks in the breadth, depth, and consistency of the features it provides for scalable, fault-tolerant systems with requirements for high availability.
12 Agile principles
This chapter from Learning Agile lays out the 12 principles that every agile practitioner should use when working on a software project team.
How to design for sustainability
Tim Frick offers simple tactics to make your own digital products and services more sustainable.
Introduction to SVG animation
Learn why animating SVG is different from animating in CSS, and work around some common hiccups you might experience along the way.
Understanding the performance penalty: HTTP vs. HTTPS
Using RUM to analyze HTTP vs. HTTPS in different world regions and across wireline, rural wireline, and wireless ISPs.
Part of the pipeline: Why continuous testing is essential
Understand how Capital One embraced continuous testing and learn the core principles, tools, and best practices behind the transformation.
Does a sorted array run faster than an unsorted array in Java?
In this video, Brian L. Gorman uncovers the relationship between efficiency and branch prediction when executing arrays in Java.
Is Java pass by reference or pass by value?
A common misconception is that Java is a pass by reference language. In this video Brian L. Gorman exposes the inner workings of pass by value.
Incident management at the edge
Lessons learned at Fastly: How to build a robust system that identifies, mitigates, contains, and properly communicates incidents to prevent recurrence.
TensorFlow on Android
Take deep learning mobile.
Capturing semantic meanings using deep learning
Word embedding in natural language processing.
Making continuous delivery a reality at a large enterprise
Learn how Capital One implemented continuous delivery, streamlined and automated the release management process, and overcame common roadblocks.
Integrating Lean UX and Agile
This chapter from Lean UX, 2nd Edition discusses how blending Lean UX and Agile can create a more productive team and a more collaborative process.
How do you make a page redirect using JavaScript?
Learn how to redirect from one page to another in JavaScript using the window.location object.
How do you include a JavaScript file in another JavaScript file?
Learn three methods for managing multiple scripts within a JavaScript project.
How do you obtain query string values in JavaScript?
Learn how to create a JavaScript function that will parse the query string into its constituent parts.
What does “use strict” do in JavaScript?
Learn how “use strict” can introduce more robust error reporting to your JavaScript code and cut down on logical errors.
A Whirlwind Tour of Python
Jake VanderPlas explains Python’s essential syntax and semantics, built-in data types and structures, function definitions, control flow statements, and more, using Python 3 syntax.
Shared nothing architectures: Giving Hadoop's data processing frameworks scalability and fault tolerance
A look at the tools and patterns for accessing and processing data in Hadoop.
Solving the right problem
Max Shron and Sasha Laundy explore tactics for need-finding and problem scoping that make it possible to put investments in data to profitable use.
The Remote Worker's Survival Guide
In this report, you’ll learn to address two main challenges: How to organize your own life as a telecommuter, and how to work as part of a larger team.
What is the difference between == and === in JavaScript?
Learn the difference between == and ===, and understand which you should be using in your code.
How do you subtract two dates in Java?
Learn how to account for time discontinuities in Java and use the new Java Time API to calculate durations accurately.
A sustainable web design primer
How web design standards can help make the Internet more environmentally friendly.
Microservices for Java developers
Learn how to build scalable, adaptive, complex systems that help your business adjust to rapidly changing competitive markets.
Thinking in coroutines
Lukasz Langa uses asyncio source code to explain the event loop, blocking calls, coroutines, tasks, futures, thread pool executors, and process pool executors.
What is the Docker workflow?
From spinning up containers to shipping software as a team.
Security and performance: Breaking the conundrum ... again!
Learn how security can be enforced at the browser level through a combination of optimization techniques and security enhancements.
How to build a robot that “sees” with $100 and TensorFlow
Adventures in deep learning, cheap hardware, and object recognition.