A guide to setting up a budget-friendly, single-server Kubernetes cluster with persistent storage using Ceph volumes and virtual machines.
Explains how flawed Regular Expressions can cause ReDoS attacks, crippling Node.js services with catastrophic backtracking and high CPU usage.
A developer explains how to automate social media posting for personal branding using Feedly, Zapier, and Buffer.
Explores the benefits and implementation of event-driven architecture for enterprise integration, contrasting it with legacy batch-oriented systems.
A guide to editing and building a Jekyll static site, including adding posts and using code snippets.
A guide to redirecting stderr of a running process using gdb, with a practical example and explanation.
A guide to using Extended Events (XEvents) for advanced tracing and diagnostics in Azure SQL Database, covering setup and specific use cases.
Introduces README Driven Development (RDD), a method for starting projects by writing a detailed README before code to define goals and features.
A technical guide on implementing Markov chains in Swift to generate realistic but nonsensical text from a given corpus.
A developer reports on a collaborative sprint between the Sway and KDE teams to improve Wayland desktop interoperability and protocols.
A data scientist explains why he's attending the eRum 2018 R conference in Budapest instead of useR! this year, and provides details about the event.
An overview of Microsoft Application Insights features for developers, highlighting its SDK support, free tier, and dependency tracking capabilities.
A programmer shares a script to automate exporting Storify content before it shuts down, saving time over the manual process.
Explains how the ping command works on Linux using IPv4, covering ICMP packets, system calls, and network diagnostics.
Presentation slides for a Power BI tips and tricks talk at DataBISummit, available for download.
A technical guide detailing the author's blogging workflow using GitHub Pages, Jekyll themes, Cloudflare for HTTPS, and Git branches for drafting.
Announcement of the major R 3.5.0 release, detailing new features and providing upgrade instructions for Windows and Mac users.
A technical guide on reverse engineering the Facebook API to download private videos using Python and browser analysis.
Explores debugging techniques like rubber duck debugging and divide-and-conquer, and discusses Stack Overflow's approach to handling novice questions.
A technical guide on reverse engineering Facebook to create a tool for downloading public videos by analyzing network requests.
