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7 Dec 2021

Schakko 4 min read

Lately, I had been asked to help out with the deployment Adobe Acrobat DC to Microsoft Intune-managed notebooks. Getting out of my system design/software architecture bubble turned out to be an interesting experience. First of all some background: All notebooks are managed by Microsoft Intune through the Microsoft Endpoint Manager. […] The post Distributing Adobe Acrobat DC with Microsoft Intune…

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Chloe Whitaker 1 min read

Ask most IT or SecOps teams and they’ll tell you that a secure web gateway (SWG) forms the backbone of their cybersecurity stack. That’s why Gartner includes a SWG in their Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) framework, which integrates a wide array of networking and cybersecurity solutions into a single, cloud-delivered service. Secure Access Service […] The post SASE Breakdown:…

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6 Dec 2021

kevin 8 min read

I fail phone screens pretty often, which limits my job prospects and is embarrassing for someone with ten years of industry experience, a pretty extensive Github account and a publicly available list of difference-making projects. 1 In theory a phone screen is supposed to evaluate whether a) this person would be good at the job […]

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Bobby Holley 4 min read

In Firefox 95, we're shipping a novel sandboxing technology called RLBox — developed in collaboration with researchers at the University of California San Diego and the University of Texas — that makes it easy and efficient to isolate subcomponents to make the browser more secure. This technology opens up new opportunities beyond what's been possible with traditional process-based sandboxing, and…

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lukaseder 1 min read

I’m answering many jOOQ questions on Stack Overflow, and a lot of times. The problem has the same cause: People not using jOOQ’s code generator. The main reason people seem not to be using it, is because it takes some extra time to set up, but as with anything well designed, the initial investment will … Continue reading Why You…

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13 min read

This is a pseudo-transcript (actual words modified to be more readable than a 100% faithful transcription) of a short lightning talk I did at Twitter a year or two ago, on pitfalls of how we use latency metrics (with the actual service names anonymized per a comms request). Since this presentation, significant progress has been made on this on the…

3 Dec 2021

2 Dec 2021

Chaitanya Ravula 4 min read

Over 70% of the files uploaded on Slack are images, and over 75% of those images are screenshots. What this tells us is that though images are ephemeral, screenshots are often used as a quick way to provide extra detail and context, and typically gain a high level of engagement over a short time period.…

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Steven Yi 1 min read

A lot of news came out of AWS re:Invent 2021 - get updates from our team on how Serverless Framework, Dashboard, and Cloud are taking advantage of the latest AWS enhancements (like improved SQS batch error handling with AWS Lambda).

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1 Dec 2021

Yaswanth Anantharaju 6 min read

At GitHub, we use ChatOps to help us collaborate seamlessly. They’re implemented using our favorite chatbot, Hubot. Running a ChatOps command is similar to running commands on your terminal, except that teammates can see what you ran and see the results if the commands are invoked from Slack. This enables real time collaboration. This is especially useful in handling incidents…

30 Nov 2021

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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10 min read

Here’s a theory I have about cloud vendors (AWS, Azure, GCP): Cloud vendors1 will increasingly focus on the lowest layers in the stack: basically leasing capacity in their data centers through an API. Other pure-software providers will build all the stuff on top of it. Databases, running code, you name it. We currently have cloud vendors that offer end-to-end solutions…

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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23 Nov 2021

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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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…

21 Nov 2021

19 Nov 2021

Beatriz Lonskis 1 min read

This article invites all who are concerned with building fairer and more responsible products, services and technologies to learn a little more about inclusive design and how it is related to responsible technology. I outline key issues, approaches and provide examples to help explain the various terms, and explore how inclusive design is good for business.

18 Nov 2021

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