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2020 was a big year for data protection, so what does 2021 have in store? On Data Privacy Day, we talk about the role data localization and encryption technologies play in data protection.
In this article, we explain how to build an integrated and interactive data visualization layer into an application with Cumul.io. To do so, we’ve built a
High five to the Greensock gang for the ScrollTrigger release. The point of this new plugin is triggering animation when a page scrolls to certain positions,
I can’t stop thinking about this site. It looks like a pretty standard fare; a website with links to different pages. Nothing to write home about except
Day 48: Another Go program, and a little vim configuration
A step-by-step guide to how you can create dashboards that are user-centred and impact-driven.
What makes a good chatbot experience? Most people think of witty responses and machine learning, but the basis of a chatbot UX is actually rooted in content strategy. In this article Marli Mesibov will answer those questions and identify what you as a content designer can do to make your chatbot successful. A poor chatbot simply says “I’m sorry, I don’t understand” on repeat (or worse “error”.) A
With Vercel, you can now transfer projects from Hobby plan to a Vercel Team Plan with Zero Downtime
How we automated data center expansions and cut by 90% the amount of time our team spent on tedious operational work.
Area 1 has uncovered a coronavirus vaccine-themed campaign spoofing the CDC. The attack, which originally bypassed Office 365’s email security, uses a number of techniques to bypass normal anti-spoofing and email authentication methods.
How to build a very common layout with CSS grid. Header on the top, footer on the bottom. Two columns, sidebar and main content. This one has navigation above the main content but within that same column.
Day 47: Using device mapper to manage Firecracker images
As a member of the Infrastructure Security team, Cailyn set out to create an application to silently and effectively manage SSH keys that persist inside of Shopify's Google Cloud Platform project-wide metadata.
You know, Porky Pig coming out of those red rings announcing the end of a Looney Tunes cartoon. We’ll get there, but first we need to cover some CSS concepts.
I'm not exactly a large-scale DevOps guy, but I can tell ya we've been moving back toward a monorepo at CodePen and it's rife with advantages over a system
This article covers scaling advices for PostgreSQL and explains why it may be a good idea to keep it simple on the database side.
Technology is constantly becoming smarter and more powerful. I often observe that as these technologies are introduced an organization’s productivity instead of improving has reduced. This is because the technology has increased complexities and cognitive overhead to the developer, reducing their effectiveness. In this article, the first of a series, I introduce a framework for maximizing develope
As the world becomes more interconnected and complicated, so too does the expanse of open source ecosystems. While the majority of open source software (OSS) lies with corporate technology companies,…
Day 46: debugging an iptables problem
How to make HTTP requests with fetch and TypeScript
Designing a personalized ranking system for more than 2 billion people (all with different interests) and a plethora of content to select from presents significant, complex challenges. This is something we tackle every day with News Feed ranking. Without machine learning (ML), people’s News Feeds could be flooded with content they don’t find as relevant […]
The promise of seamless design to code translation goes back to the early WYSIWYG page builders. Despite the admirable goal, their biggest flaw was the code that they generated. Skepticism remains to this day and whenever this idea reappears, the biggest concerns are always related to the quality and maintainability of the code. In this article, Miroslav Bekyarov will show you how to turn our stat
