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Software development engineer Cees De Groot shares how he brought Elixir to PagerDuty—and how it compares to other languages, including Ruby/Rails, Scala, and Erlang.

The Docker team has pulled 17 Docker container images that have been backdoored and used to install reverse shells and cryptocurrency miners on users' servers for the past year.

A methodology for building modern, scalable, maintainable software-as-a-service apps.

How I used benchmarking, profiling, and tracing to heavily optimize a program

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This post is contributed by Xavier Shay, who teaches our Engineering Leadership course. He was most recently Director of Payment…

Cloudflare is protected from attacks by the Gatebot DDoS mitigation pipeline. Gatebot performs hundreds of mitigations a day, shielding our infrastructure and our customers from L3 and L7 attacks.

Growing companies is just as important as starting companies. Making a really successful startup requires two very different skills: Product… Read On

Onboarding new and junior developers to the team is hard. You want them to become good, but that requires instruction, and instruction takes time. How do we ...

The gelatin-scaffold ovary could one day help restore endocrine function in young cancer patients and treat infertility

Last week marked the fifth anniversary since the Ghost Kickstarter campaign which started it all. It's always fun to use these milestones to take a step back and reflect on the journey so far. On previous birthdays I've talked about revenue milestones and product updates, but this year I'm going

Data classes are one of the new features of Python 3.7. With data classes you do not have to write boilerplate code to get proper initialization, representation and comparisons for your objects.

If you’re into mobile app development, the name of React Native mustn’t be new for you. The term has been trending in the world of…

At Stripe, we’ve always been intentional about how we communicate, share information, and stay connected. Back when Stripe was smaller, it was easy for this to happen automatically. But by the time we hit around 150 people, it became hard to know everyone’s name. So at a company hackathon, a few Stripes created People, a directory to help Stripes meet and get to really know each other. People focused on connecting individuals across the company: Stripes could set their own bios, create networks around common interests, and generally experiment with new ways to express who they are. People ...

On Tuesday, 13 March 2018, travis-ci.com was non-operational for around 5.5 hours starting at 12:14 UTC. There was a backlog of builds for another 3.5 hours after the system returned to an operatio...

async/await freed us from callback hell, but people have started abusing it — leading to the birth of async/await hell.

By Priya Wadhwa, Software Engineer Building images from a standard Dockerfile typically relies upon interactive access to a Docker daemon,...

CSS SANS は、ウェブ上でデザイン・文字組をするためのプログラミング言語 CSS でつくられたフォントです。

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.

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

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