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Dan Brown 7 min read

Seyi Akiwowo’s reputation precedes her. Akiwowo is the founder of Glitch, an organization that seeks to end online abuse. We spoke with Seyi over video chat to learn about what drives her, why she does what she does and what she’d be doing if not battling trolls online for a living. The post Hacks Decoded: Seyi Akiwowo, Founder of Glitch…

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Nicholas Consolo 1 min read

There’s plenty to love about Apple’s recent release of iOS 15. But at Cisco Umbrella, we’re most excited about the fact that the Cisco Security Connector app can now be deployed on any managed iOS device! That’s right – you can now enhance the visibility of all managed iPhone and iPad devices on your network, […] The post Cisco Security…

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29 Nov 2021

Rafael Elvira 15 min read

On September 30th 2021, Slack had an outage that impacted less than 1% of our online user base, and lasted for 24 hours. This outage was the result of our attempt to enable DNSSEC — an extension intended to secure the DNS protocol, required for FedRAMP Moderate — but which ultimately led to a series of…

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28 Nov 2021

Although parsing is often described from the perspective of writing a compiler, there are many common smaller tasks where it’s useful. Reading file formats, talking over the network, creating shells, and analyzing source code are all easier using a robust parser. By taking time to learn general-purpose parsing tools, you can go beyond fragile homemade solutions, and inflexible third-party libraries.…

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Janos Kubisch 8 min read

With this Argo CD Kubernetes tutorial you'll learn to store credentials safely within your k8s cluster using a pull-based continous deployment tool. The post Argo CD Kubernetes Tutorial appeared first on RisingStack Engineering.

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Driven by Code 7 min read

By: TrueCar Security and Compliance Team With the changes that came with a worldwide pandemic, TrueCar has safely ensured business continuity through rapid enablement of our 100% remote workforce. While necessary, this shift was new to most of us at TrueCar, so we decided to explore the impact on the company’s culture and teams, starting with the team that focuses…

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Sean Cruz 1 min read

We know that 2021 has been a busy year for many of us. But before everyone takes a well-earned holiday break, we wanted to share some exciting news with cybersecurity professionals in Latin America: As part of our commitment to Latin America, Cisco Umbrella has opened a new data center in Ciudad de Querétaro, Mexico. […] The post Cisco Invests…

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22 Nov 2021

Tomek Poniatowicz 4 min read

From the very beginning of our adventure with GraphQL, we were impressed by how great its community is. The amount of content, libraries and great tools generated by GraphQL users amazed us from the very start. The more time we spent working with GraphQL the more things we saw that could be improved to make working with it easier and…

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Here's a list of errors on this blog that I think were fairly serious. While what I think of as serious is, of course, subjective, I don't think there's any reasonable way to avoid that because, e.g., I make a huge number of typos, so many that the majority of acknowledgements on many posts are for people who e-mailed or…

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Josh Pyorre 1 min read

Ever wonder what happens when some of yesterday’s most crippling ransomware or RAT attacks evolve? That’s what we unpack in this month’s Cybersecurity Threat Spotlight. Our three cyberattacks wreak havoc by borrowing some of the most effective techniques and tools formerly used by DarkSide, REvil, LockBit, and the PlugX RAT. We break down this evolution […] The post BlackMatter, LockBit,…

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(This is a post mostly about art but I swear there’s a moral in here for all you tech readers, or at least a discounted therapy lesson.) As you may have noticed from these latest posts, at the beginning of this year I decided to “do more art”. This went really well for a couple of months: I was making…

17 Nov 2021

hello@taniarascia.com 9 min read

As web and mobile applications become more mature and complex, software engineers invent clever new ways of improving the interaction…

16 Nov 2021

Alexey Reznik 5 min read

Last month three Android engineers from Freeletics went to the first in a long time in-person conference - droidcon Berlin 2021. The conference was packed with interesting topics, this blog post is just a snapshot of topics we were most interested in. Full content of the conference can be found here, all the talks have been recorded and can be…

srinivas.tamada@gmail.com (Srinivas Tamada) 1 min read

UI automation is the most important part of the CI/CD(continuous integration and continuous delivery) process. Integration testing helps you to avoid manual regression testing and improve the application quality. In this post I will explain how to implement UI automation testing to existing Angular projects using the Cypress tool, this is a great alternative for Protractor. Take a look at…

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Matthieu Napoli 1 min read

Today, we are very excited to announce the availability of Serverless Framework v3 beta! The 3.0 release, planned for Q1 2022, includes a cleaner and redesigned CLI experience that prioritizes actionable information.

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15 Nov 2021

lukaseder 1 min read

The upcoming jOOQ 3.16 will finally offer support for the various RDBMS GIS extensions via issue #982. This is great news per se, and will be covered in a future blog post, when the integration is ready. This post here is about something else. Adding support for such a feature is a great source of … Continue reading Fun with…

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One of the most common mistakes I see people make when looking at data is incorrectly using an overly simplified model. A specific variant of this that has derailed the majority of work roadmaps I've looked at is treating people as interchangeable, as if it doesn't matter who is doing what, as if individuals don't matter. Individuals matter. A pattern…

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Nida Pervez 6 min read

The end of September was marked by one of the most exciting events for women in technology: Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC). For those who do not know, GHC is a yearly conference that highlights women’s contributions/involvement in different aspects of the tech industry. In a field that is overwhelmingly dominated by men, it’s important to acknowledge…

10 Nov 2021

Zac Sweers 2 min read

We use plenty of open source tools at Slack and we’ve benefited immensely from the wider Android, Kotlin, and Gradle communities. We also try to be good citizens by giving back. This includes things like sponsoring the Kotlin Lang Slack, contributions to projects we use like Anvil and Insetter, sharing projects of our own like…

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9 Nov 2021

Chandrodaya Prasad 1 min read

In today’s always-on, work from anywhere world, connectivity and performance are everything. The network is the foundation of getting work done. When the network experiences performance issues, businesses — their customers, partners, and employees — all suffer. A dropped video call can prevent a sale from moving through. An error message when loading a small […] The post Cisco Umbrella…

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8 Nov 2021