I realized something recently: I know virtually nothing about UDP. Oh, I know it's connectionless, has no handshaking and thus doesn't provide any guarantees about delivery or ordering. But, in practice, what does that actually mean?
Relieving SQL Join PainIf you’ve built an application that stores its data in a relational database like MySQL or PostgreSQL, then you’ve likely run into situations where joining two or more large tables becomes very slow and painful.
Everything Is Broken — The Message — MediumOnce upon a time, a friend of mine accidentally took over thousands of computers. He had found a vulnerability in a piece of software and started playing with it. In the process, he figured out how to get total administration access over a network.
How I stole source code with Directory Indexing and GitThe keys to the kingdom pretty much always come down to acquiring source code for the web application you’re attacking from a blackbox perspective.
Programming SucksEvery friend I have with a job that involves picking up something heavier than a laptop more than twice a week eventually finds a way to slip something like this into conversation: "Bro,1 you don't work hard. I just worked a 4700-hour week digging a tunnel under Mordor with a screwdriver."
Installing VirtualBox, and Boot2Docker to run Docker Containers in OSX/WindowsThis tutorial will mark the beginning of tutorials revolving around Docker, CoreOS, and running applications within Linux Containers. In this first video we will go over differences between virtual machines and docker containers, installing Virtualbox and Boot2Docker, which will allow us to use Dock
Introduction to DockerdotCloud founder and CTO Solomon Hykes recently stopped by Twitter HQ to show us Docker, an open source project designed to easily create lightweight, portable, self-sufficient containers from any application.Common use cases for Docker include:* Automating the packaging and deployment of applicatio
Docker Cache: Friend or Foe?Docker is a new container technology that is taking Devops by storm, with many companies moving their applications from running in virtual machines (VMs) over to containers. What does Docker do? It allows you to run many containers on the same host without them interfering with each other.
Line by LineIn the bowels of a business unit, a director got a great deal on a third party software package. He bought it, without talking to corporate IT, and then was upset when it couldn’t gracefully integrate with any of the corporate IT assets.
Why we aren’t using the Gmail API (yet)When Google announced the new Gmail API in June, we were excited to switch. The new API promised to fix our biggest problem with IMAP: the lack of read-only permissions.
This Read-It-Later-list is just that, bookmarks of stuff I intend to read or have read. I do not necessarily agree with opinions or statements in the bookmarked articles.
This list is compiled from my Pocket list.