all things engineering

Bill Clark discusses classifying and managing tech debt at Riot.

In this blog post, we discuss how the implementation of a Go microservice coded during a Hackathon is saving us $50,000 in costs per year.

A couple of months ago I did a performance comparison between some of the top free DNS Resolvers available. It was just after Quad9 had…

This cheatsheet is intended to run down the typical steps performed when conducting a web application penetration test. I will break these steps down into sub-tasks and describe the tools I recommend using at each level.

Posted by Josh Gordon and Sara Robinson, Developer Advocates

Let's look at how to to utilize image fingerprinting to perform near-duplicate image detection.

Improving your company with continuous experimentation

Ryan Dahl is a Software Engineer working at Google Brain. He is the creator of Node.js, JavaScript runtime built on Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine. Currently, he is working on deep learBrowserifyning research projects. His focus is mostly on image-to-image transformations like colorization and super-resolution. He has contributed to several open source projects including HTTP Parser, libuv. … Continue reading Episode 8: Interview with Ryan Dahl, Creator of Node.js

Ben McCormick's blog on JavaScript and Web Development

Today I’m announcing my departure from Docker, the company I helped create ten years ago and have been building ever since. A founder’s departure is usually seen as a dramatic event. Sadly, I must report that reality is far less exciting in this case. I’ve had many roles at Docker over the years, and today I have a new, final one – as an active board member, a major shareholder and, I expect, a high maintenance Docker user. But I will no longer be part of day-to-day operations. Instead, after obsessing for so many years over my own ideas, I am rediscovering the joys of putting myself at the...

And because of "experience inflation" by employers, the experience you need for entry-level jobs is increasing at 2.8% every year.

Technical Debt is inevitable, only you can reduce the interest to be paid

Trusted by millions, Basecamp puts everything you need to get work done in one place. It’s the calm, organized way to manage projects, work with clients, and communicate company-wide.

There’s an endless debate online between advocates of typed and untyped programming languages (or statically and dynamically typed languages). These conversa...

“What?!”, you say. “GraphQL is a server side query language. Redux is a client-side state management library. How could one replace the…

Gitkube: Build and deploy docker images to Kubernetes using git push

Though JavaScript has the highest number of developers in its community with respect to any other language on earth at this moment; there are a lot of misconceptions, shallow knowledge, bad assumption

One researcher shows despite some speculation, 80 percent of mass shooters didn't show an interest in violent video games

(if you’re working in an open office)

On Wednesday, a 1.3Tbps DDoS attack pummeled GitHub for 15-20 minutes. Here's how it stayed online.

The surprising and delightful things that happened when two Mozillians experimented by turning their iPhones to grayscale.

For the past four years, I’ve worked as a software developer at Google. On February 1st, I quit. It was because they refused to buy me a Christmas present.

I work on a lot of Javascript projects. The fashion in Javascript is to use build tools like Gulp or Webpack that are written and configured in Javascript. I...

Kim Scott cut her teeth as a manager at Apple and Google, and now helps create great leaders as an author and coach for companies like Twitter. Here's the secret that's made all the difference for her.

Three Questions to Ask Yourself Before Making a Senior Hire

Improving your designs with tactics instead of talent.

In early 2017, a conversation with yet another Waze fanboy finally nudged me to start a navigation app experiment. I was skeptical that the Alphabet owned company could meaningfully best its parent…