The Parallax

APRIL 18, 2018

SAN FRANCISCO—Turns out the phisher stereotype of the Nigerian “prince” who says he’s looking for a safe place to store his money isn’t that far off the mark. When two Google security team members searched for phishers who use Gmail to temporarily store stolen account log-in credentials, they found about 19,000 of them—and most actually in Nigeria. After modifying Gmail’s anti-abuse detection systems to look for phishing-kit code signatures, Neal Mueller and Collin Frierson detected more than 10

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NeverFriday

APRIL 18, 2018

Heilmeier Catechism. When George Heilmeier was the director of ARPA in the mid 1970s, he had a standard set of questions he expected every proposal for a new research program to answer. These have been called the Heilmeier Catechism. It’s a good exercise to answer these questions for an individual research project, too, both for yourself and as a way to convey to others what you hope to accomplish.

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Toptal

APRIL 18, 2018

When using a JavaScript framework, your browser doesn't receive a complete page to display. Instead it gets a bunch of pieces and instructions of how to put them all together. It takes a substantial amount of time to put all this information together before your browser actually has something to display. In this article, Toptal Freelance Front-end Engineer Ben Jones introduces us to Nuxt.js, a server-side rendering library for Vue.js, inspired by the popular Next.js for React.js.

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VironIT

APRIL 18, 2018

Before you can trade Bitcoins, you need a place to store it. In the cryptocurrency world, that place is called a wallet. There are different wallets, catering for different requirements and varying in terms of safety and security, convenience, accessibility and so on. But for various reasons, existing cryptocurrency apps may not suit you. This […].

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Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Toptal

APRIL 18, 2018

Every month, we bring you riveting design news and inspiring content focused on design. Here are five hand-picked pieces of design news.

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Gorilla Logic

APRIL 18, 2018

** Note: The development team was also formed by Andres Palavicini and Luis Diego Carvajal. In today’s world, AWS is becoming an essential development skill. If you already know a little about it, you can identify its biggest advantage: you do what’s important for your business while we take care of where and how it is running. It’s as simple as that; you can host virtually any service you may need within AWS’s cloud service catalog.

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WordAligned

APRIL 18, 2018

TIMTOWTDI. TIMTOWTDI stands for “There is more than one way to do it”, an approach promoted by the Perl community. The mindset behind it gets explored in more detail by the language’s creator, Larry Wall, in a talk given in 1999: “Perl, the first postmodern computer language” He attributes the slogan to his daughter, Heidi, who says it’s a strategy which works well in her maths class; and she associates it with another saying used at school: “Tsall Good&

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The Accidental Successful CIO

APRIL 18, 2018

Old management techniques don’t work with new employees Image Credit: Kevin O’Mara. As the person with the CIO job, it’s your responsibility to put in place systems that will allow the company to use the importance of information technology to get the most out of each and every IT employee. This sounds like a fairly classical management responsibility.

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ShepHertz

APRIL 18, 2018

Gaming industry is one of the few industries that have always been in growth stage. Value of the global video games market is increasing by 5% every year and in few years is expected to cross $100 Billion US Dollars. […]. The post AppWarp (Cloud) vs AppWarp S2 (On-Premise): When Should You Use Which for Game Development? appeared first on ShepHertz App42 Blog.

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Multi-tenant architecture allows software vendors to realize tremendous efficiencies by maintaining a single application stack instead of separate database instances while meeting data privacy needs. When you use a data warehouse to power your multi-tenant analytics, the proper approach is vital. Multi-tenant analytics is NOT the primary use case with traditional data warehouses, causing data security challenges.

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OpenCredo

APRIL 18, 2018

It’s been a few years since I first wrote The Seven Deadly Sins of Microservices after working on a few early microservices projects and noticing a number of common pitfalls. These were mostly technical; since then, the technologies that enable microservices have evolved significantly but design approaches and working practices have not necessarily caught up.

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Daniel Bryant

APRIL 18, 2018

To learn more about selecting an API Gateway and testing, check out the other articles in this series, “ Selecting an API Gateway for Continuous Delivery of Cloud Native Applications ” and “Next-Level Testing with an API Gateway and Continuous Delivery”. Photo by Steven Lelham on Unsplash It is considered best practice within the continuous delivery community to decouple deployment from release.

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WordAligned

APRIL 18, 2018

Contents. TIMTOWTDI. TSBO-APOO-OWTDI. TIMTOP. TIMTOPOM. TIMTOUTF. TIMTOWOFS. APSDOTADIW. TIMTOWTDI. TIMTOWTDI stands for “There is more than one way to do it”, an approach promoted by the Perl community. The mindset behind it gets explored in more detail by the language’s creator, Larry Wall, in a talk given in 1999: “Perl, the first postmodern computer language” He attributes the slogan to his daughter, Heidi, who says it’s a strategy which works well in her

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 18, 2018

Don’t be surprised if at some point you find your business struggling, with you figuring out how and why such issues have arisen. Such ups and downs are normal in the world of business, and whether you’re an entrepreneur or seasonal business owner with years of experience, both need to know what to do when their business needs a boost in the right direction.

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Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Nutanix

APRIL 18, 2018

At Nutanix, we like to think that we have a reputation as a disruptor of the status quo, and our recent investor day was no exception. Held at the NASDAQ in New York City on March 12th, our inaugural investor day was sold out, attracting two to three times the crowd typical for a company of this size.

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