Crystal balls and clairvoyance: Future proofing in a world of inevitable change
While the future may be a mystery, you can design software to accommodate future changes. But how much future-proofing gets in the way of good design?
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Stack under attack: what we learned about handling DDoS attacks
When the bots came for us, we strengthened our defenses. Here's what we learned about parrying a few DDoS attacks.
Josh Zhang
Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Security needs to shift left into the software development lifecycle
Security needs to move from an afterthought to a primary concern in software development. Here's what shifting left looks like for real-world developers.
Building a community of open-source documentation contributors
When your open-source project starts getting contributors, it can feel great! But as a project grows, contributors can neglect to document everything.
Underscoring (or dunder-scoring) the importance of native type methods in Python
Standard operators make for clean, readable code. With dunder methods, you can add these operators to your own classes.
Empathy for the Dev: Avoiding common pitfalls when communicating with developers
All too often, developers go deep on the wrong things, when writing documentation. A little bit of empathy can get your docs back on track.
The robots are coming for (the boring parts of) your job
Are the robots coming for your job? You’ve heard this question before. But in 2022, with AI increasingly ubiquitous in the lives of most coders, the issue feels more pressing.
Eira May
Content Writer
The Authorization Code grant (in excruciating detail) Part 2 of 2
Previously, I examined OAuth at a high level, including the standards and the grants outlined in the specifications. If you haven’t you may want to read that article. In this post, you’ll learn the nuts and bolts of integrating OAuth to protect resources like APIs. While there are a number of different ways to do…
Will chatbots ever live up to the hype?
Chatbots held so much promise as a software tool. But near-future NLP advances will bring them more in line with their hype.
The complete guide to protecting your APIs with OAuth2 (part 1)
OAuth2 is one of the most popular specifications for API authentication today, though wrapping your head around it can be a challenge.
You should be reading academic computer science papers
You read documentation and tutorials to become a better programmer, but if you really want to be cutting-edge, academic research is where it's at.
