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MARCH 28, 2024

API Security doesn’t start with penetration testing. This isn’t to say testing isn’t important – it is! And at multiple phases. It isn’t always feasible to cover every single security scenario, but the most important ones should be considered. This is why it’s important for the business to understand what can go wrong, when, and how to get ahead of these issues as early as possible.

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MARCH 28, 2024

Are you starting on your platform engineering journey? Are you looking at how to create a successful platform with lasting value? Do you want to get people to come along on the journey? Platform engineering can help organizations reduce cognitive load for development teams, and create a significant improvement in developer experience (DevEx) as well as several other areas.

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MARCH 28, 2024

There has been an uptick in discussions surrounding the modern data stack, data mesh and self-service promising to solve many of your company’s data problems. However, in Xebia Data’s Analytics Engineering team’s day-to-day work for clients, we still see small and large companies struggling to address most of the core concepts. It’s great that data analytics is now more accessible than ever for anyone to get involved in due to all of these new tools, but this has a lot of

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MARCH 26, 2024

In the fast-paced world of design and development, the importance of a robust and cohesive design system cannot be overstated. However, it is often overlooked and built-in fragmented spare time, leading to a Frankenstein Design System that introduces more complexities than solutions. Defining the Design System The first step in our journey was to redefine the concept of a design system.

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MARCH 21, 2024

As we all know, monday.com is constantly evolving and providing us with new features every month. We’ve highlighted a few new features below that can help you get the most out of monday.com. 1. Unified automations and integrations center Automations and integrations have been rolled into one unified location to make it even easier to power up your work.

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MARCH 25, 2024

In this blog post I introduce pydargs as a helpful tool in configuration management for python projects. The Evolution of Configuration in a Machine Learning Project In my career as a data scientist I have seen many projects start as a simple proof-of-concept scripts or notebooks, be consolidated into minimum-viable-products and eventually grow out to large codebases as they were improved and expanded.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Introduction Azure Machine Learning (Azure ML) is a popular machine learning service. Azure ML provides a lot of predefined functionality for deploying machine learning model endpoints, which is great. However, when you are trying to create a more custom solution, it can be quite difficult! In this blogpost we’ll dive into such a custom solution.

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MARCH 21, 2024

Value Stream Mapping (VSM) is a useful tool to understand different activities in software delivery and identify bottlenecks. One of the best parts of this exercise is that everyone tends to understand this visualization, so that there’s a common understanding of the software delivery flow. Over the past years, I’ve used a variation on the value stream map.

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MARCH 21, 2024

Developer productivity is a hot topic right now. It’s a topic that inspires many different ideas, approaches, perspectives, and research: McKinsey , Response to McKinsey , SPACE , DevEx , Google. One conclusion we can probably all agree on is that modeling developer productivity is hard. Some time ago, the podcast Planet Money created an episode in which they asked the question, “What’s the most useful idea in economics?

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MARCH 19, 2024

Turn your micromanagers into sweethearts again! Are you a developer who has to put up with a bitter manager? A Scrum Master struggling to survive under the tyranny of micromanagement? A Product Owner who feels like they’re being sucked dry by an overbearing Agile coach? Or maybe a manager, leader, or coach who wants to understand how to support their team better?

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MARCH 14, 2024

Against all odds, some organizations are migrating back from the Cloud to their on-premises servers, as the Cloud turns out to be too expensive for them. We notice some of our clients migrate back too. This is unexpected because, theoretically, operating your landscape in the cloud ought to be cheaper. Unexpected Cost Developments Cost is an important factor when migrating to the cloud.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2024

What is this thing called MLOps ? You may have heard about it by now, but never really understood what all the fuzz is about. In this blog post, we’ll try to demystify MLOps and take you through the process of going from a notebook to your very own industry-grade ML application. The first part will be about the what and why of MLOps and the second part about technical aspects of MLOps.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Filtering web traffic is easy with Cloud Firewall , a cloud-first NGFW with advanced threat protection. How easy? A single policy allows or denies traffic to a domain name and applies as fine-grained as tags or service accounts. Looking for more examples? Check out the GitHub repository. Allowing egress to xebia.com The following policy allows all hosts to access xebia.com : resource "google_compute_network_firewall_policy_rule" "allow_xebia" { project = var.project_id firewall_p

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

If you’ve worked in software development for any amount of time, you’re probably used to working in a certain way, and have been in the situation where a new tool forces you to change your way of working. Some may also think that using tool X automatically means following process Y. For example, "We’re using ArgoCD, therefore we’re doing GitOps, right?

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FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Managing the Many Concerns in Programming Programming is a challenging activity. One major cause for this is the sheer amount of balls to keep in the air. At any given time, we need to: Understand the problem and its context Come up with solutions Capture solutions in code Understand the surrounding code (Most likely) fit new code into existing code Make the solution maintainable Ensure the code does what it’s supposed to Communicate ideas to others And this is not an exhaustive list; ther

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FEBRUARY 8, 2024

So, you want to start with green software on the Azure cloud by measuring your carbon footprint. But where to start? Microsoft Azure’s Sustainability API can help organizations measure their carbon footprint to analyze and reduce it. In this blog, we’ll dive into the carbon emission data it offers and how it can be leveraged for a more sustainable future.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Many people follow some kind of naming format for their branches. Be it because they’re using GitHub Flow or Git Flow or because they’ve created their own meaningful naming patterns. With the new Rulesets you can enforce branches with specific patterns. It was a bit confusing to me at first, because I had to think in inverse to make this rule work.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The term “DevOps” was supposed to be a method to bridge the gap between Developers and Operations and create self-sufficient, autonomous teams. But in practice it’s mostly associated with operations. When an organization is “doing DevOps”, and has employed “DevOps Engineers”, it often means they’re automating deployments and CI/CD pipelines, in addition to generally filling the role of what we used to call “System Administrators”.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2024

This blog uses an NGINX gateway VM to access services in another Google Cloud VPC. Clients are directed to the gateway (or forward proxy ) via custom DNS entries. As a result, no client configuration is needed. Connectivity overview First, custom DNS entries direct Clients to the NGINX Gateway. Next, the NGINX gateway connects clients from the Source VPC to services in the Destination VPC: The NGINX gateway uses two network interfaces to connect the VPCs.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2024

AWS has a lot of controls built in, but what if you need more? AWS Config allows you to create your own rules. These rules can then inspect your resources and determine if they are compliant. This is useful when you want to enforce certain configuration settings. Giving you an overview of how compliant your workloads are. Let’s use a specific example, but you can apply this concept to other scenarios.

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JANUARY 19, 2024

In a world that seems to be constantly buzzing, it’s normal to feel busy and stressed. But if you feel tired, overwhelmed, and overstimulated most of the time, you might have sensory-processing sensitivity. Hi, I’m Rachèl, and I’m a Highly Sensitive Person. I’m not embarrassed to admit that because it’s actually my superpower.

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JANUARY 19, 2024

Authors Riët Broekhuizen and Ellen Barree A fourth industrial revolution is happening, challenging organizations to implement radical change. The fusion and exponential growth of technologies that allow man and machine to "merge" will impact society, organizations, and people in ways we can barely imagine. Consider, for example, the impact of smart devices in your home, voice control, self-propelled trucks, robot receptionists, and AI.

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JANUARY 19, 2024

In a world that seems to be constantly buzzing, it’s normal to feel busy and stressed. But if you feel tired, overwhelmed, and overstimulated most of the time, you might have sensory-processing sensitivity. Hi, I’m Rachél, and I’m a Highly Sensitive Person. I’m not embarrassed to admit that because it’s actually my superpower.

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JANUARY 19, 2024

Astro is a modern front-end framework for building fast, optimized websites. It allows you to write components using your favorite JavaScript framework (like React, Vue, or Svelte), but renders them as static HTML at build time for faster page loads. Additionally, Astro offers server-side rendering capabilities, and integrates well with popular tools and frameworks, enhancing performance and SEO.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

Simple, Complicated, Simple A Transitional Journey in Code A few years ago, I took up the hobby of making slow coffee. The art of manually brewing coffee is involved and complicated but potentially offers a fantastic reward: an experience in a porcelain cup. The start was simple: just me, a stovetop coffee maker, and some ground coffee. The results?

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JANUARY 18, 2024

Deploy Secure Public Web Endpoints Welcome to Building Resilient Public Networking on AWS—our comprehensive blog series on advanced networking strategies tailored for regional evacuation, failover, and robust disaster recovery. Here’s a summary of this engaging journey: Revisiting networking concepts from the client’s perspective: If you missed our exploration of fundamental networking concepts in the first installment, catch up here.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

Rotating secrets is a critical element to your security posture that, when done manually, is often overlooked due to it being a more and more tedious and complex process as the company and secrets grow. Security breaches due to secret access are difficult to detect as the hacker has gained access via legitimate means, and they can persist for months unless the secret is rotated.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

Recently I have been working on a few projects that involved Lambda functions. This meant defining and building these functions and all infrastructure around them via Terraform. When doing this previously I have always struggled to find simple ways to integrate the dependencies into the deployment to minimise manual intervention or unnecessary convoluted steps, so this time around I decided to invest some time into finding a better solution!

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JANUARY 15, 2024

When you speak with software developers, they will probably tell you that they use design patterns. But when the world first shifted to the internet the general feeling was that these design patterns would not work for the web. This is not true, and today you see these patterns being used more and more. I have noticed the same behavior with serverless.

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JANUARY 15, 2024

You may have already noticed, especially if you use it frequently, but the Google Drive scanner app has undergone some very welcome improvements on both Android and iOS. In this blogpost, we like to highlight them for you. Google is making additional enhancements to the Drive scanner on Android devices. Specifically, you’ll notice: Automatic capture to help you get the best scan quickly Camera viewfinder that helps you position your document for the highest quality scan The option to import from

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JANUARY 15, 2024

Have you ever tried to explain something through a digital channel? Some of us try to write the instructions down, others jump into a video call, and more tech savvy people may start a screen recording. Now, it’s time to get rid of other video recording tools or less innovative ways of sharing information. This month, Google Workspace introduces the feature that enables you to easily record your instructions, lesson or webinar right from Google Slides!

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JANUARY 15, 2024

Are You Coping with Complexity and Want to Reduce it? Get a second pair of glasses for free! Eyewear shops are well known for their aggressive promotions, but I’ve never understood why I would need two pairs of glasses. I’m not the kind of ‘complex’ person who considers glasses to be an accessory that should match my outfit of the day. And I only recently discovered that different glasses can give you a different view of reality: With one pair I can read my iPad, and with the other one I can see

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JANUARY 15, 2024

Moving applications to the cloud can be done in a variety of ways. If you do it correctly, the effort required to keep applications running in the cloud can be reduced dramatically. For example, we have seen cases where the number of staff required to keep the systems running 24/7 dropped from six persons to just one. In this article we will introduce three strategies for migrating applications to the cloud, the impact of those strategies on IT operations, and a list of tasks that will disappear

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DECEMBER 31, 2023

Adding new resources or features to the Hashicorp Terraform provider for Google, is normally done by updating Magic Modules resource definitions. In this blog I will show you how you can quickly generate and update these resource definitions using a simple utility. Somewhere in September of this year, Google released mTLS support on the Google Load Balancer.

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DECEMBER 20, 2023

Introduction Large Language Models (LLM’s) have proven to be useful for numerous tasks. LLM’s can summarise text, generate text, classify text or translate text. What LLM’s can also be used for is converting unstructured data to structured data. This can have huge benefits. Useful facts that were previously hidden inside a large piece of text can now be unveiled, allowing you to use properties of a dataset that could before not be directly accessed.

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DECEMBER 15, 2023

Introduction During these intense months of development, we’ve endeavored to stay ahead in an environment where artificial intelligence innovation progresses at an unprecedented pace. We’re thrilled to share and announce the release of xef version 0.0.4! Here are the notable changes and improvements: MLFlow Gateway models. Metrics with OpenTelemetry.

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DECEMBER 15, 2023

Google introduced a subtle new view in Google Drive that shows all pending access requests, recent comments, and approvals for files to help you quickly see recent activity and take action, all in one place. The new view is a standalone page that is accessible from the left hand navigation panel within Drive. With this new view, you can really focus on your work and boost your productivity even more!

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