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Deceptive Deprecation: The Truth About npm Deprecated Packages

Aqua Security

Researchers at Aqua Nautilus found that 8.2% percent of the most downloaded npm packages are officially deprecated, but due to inconsistent practices in handling package dependencies, the real number is much larger, closer to 21.2%. Moreover, some package maintainers, when confronted with security flaws, deprecate their packages instead of reporting them, getting a CVE assigned or remediating the vulnerabilities.

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CodeSOD: A Simple List Copy

The Daily WTF

Mike 's team had a new hire. They did great on the interview, really shined in the coding challenges, so it was a no-brainer hire. In the middle of on-boarding, the team got slammed, so this new hire ended up being left to fend for themselves. This was a mistake. public class ElementHandler { private final List elements = new ArrayList (); public final List getElements () { final Element[] allElements= elements.toArray( new Element[elements.size()]); final List result = new ArrayList (); for

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Leadership Labyrinth

CO2 Business Leadership

In the ever-evolving landscape of business leadership, executives often find themselves at the center of a complex maze – the Leadership Labyrinth. Navigating this labyrinth requires more than traditional management skills; it demands a deep understanding of oneself and the ability to inspire and lead others effectively. This is where executive coaching, a field gaining tremendous traction, plays a pivotal role.

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Optimizely Configured Commerce(Spire): Integrating Third-Party NPM Packages

Perficient

It is frequently necessary to use external libraries and packages in the constantly changing world of web development. For Spire, integrating third-party NPM packages into the system smoothly requires following certain procedures and considerations. Understanding the Setup within Spire Third-party NPM packages can be installed within Spire’s framework by clients and partners.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Multi-tenancy is what’s hard about scaling web services

David Heinemeier Hansson

Computers have gotten so ridiculously fast that there is scarcely any organization in the world that can overwhelm a web-based information system running on a single server. All the complexity and sophistication required to run web services today stem from multi-tenancy. From having a single system serve millions of users at the same time. But what if we stopped doing that?