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Software development teams often make decisions about software architecture or technological stack based on inaccurate opinions, social media, and in general on what is considered to be “hot”, rather than solid research and any serious consideration of expected impact on their projects. I call this trend Hype Driven Development, perceive it harmful and advocate for a more professional approach I call “Solid Software Engineering”. Learn more about how it works and find out what you can do instead. ...

El principal motivo de la creación de IPv6 fue la falta de direcciones IPv4 por la expansión de países altamente poblados como China e India. La principal y más conocida ventaja es el tamaño de su rango de direcciones. Como todo el mundo sabe, una dirección IPv4 consta de 32 bits, lo cual posibilita un direccionamiento de 2^32 máquinas (4.294.967.296). En cambio, una dirección IPv6 está formada por 128 bits, dando lugar a 2^128 direcciones posibles, este número es muy difícil de imaginar, o de manejar, ya que el ser humano no esta acostumbrado a números de tal magnitud. ...

Related: We recently added a bank account like functionality into one of our products. During the development we encountered some textbook problems and I thought it can be a good opportunity to go over some of the patterns we use in our Django models. This article was written in the order in which we usually address new problems: Define the business requirements. Write down a naive implementation and model definition. Challenge the solution. Refine and repeat. » Haki Benita | medium.com

Related: A lot of information on AWS is already written. Most people learn AWS by reading a blog or a “getting started guide” and referring to the standard AWS references. Nonetheless, trustworthy and practical information and recommendations aren’t easy to come by. AWS’s own documentation is a great but sprawling resource few have time to read fully, and it doesn’t include anything but official facts, so omits experiences of engineers. The information in blogs or Stack Overflow is also not consistently up to date. ...

Related: Cuando los Gobiernos y proveedores de Internet bloquean un portal, nos tenemos que buscar la vida cambiando los DNS, conectándonos a servidores Proxy y VPN e incluso a la red Tor. Streisand es una herramienta gratuita que nos permite automatizar el proceso de configuración de nuevos servidores VPN, Proxy y Tor para proporcionar a los usuarios una solución rápida y fácil, ideal para activistas en Internet. Ver el proyecto en github.com. ...

Relatd: I’ve used Linux containers directly and indirectly for years, but I wanted to become more familiar with them. So I wrote some code. This used to be 500 lines of code, I swear, but I’ve revised it some since publishing; I’ve ended up with about 70 lines more. I wanted specifically to find a minimal set of restrictions to run untrusted code. This isn’t how you should approach containers on anything with any exposure: you should restrict everything you can. But I think it’s important to know which permissions are categorically unsafe! ...

Related: This is the manifest of things I’ve learned about managing CSS in large, complex web projects during my many years of professional web development. I’ve been asked about these things enough times that having a document to point to sounded like a good idea. I’ve tried to keep the explanations short, but this is essentially the tl;dr: Always prefer classes Co-locate component code Use consistent class namespacing Maintain a strict mapping between namespaces and filenames Prevent leaking styles outside the component Prevent leaking styles inside the component Respect component boundaries Integrate external styles loosely » Jarno Rantanen | github.com | via css-tricks.com

CockroachDB is a distributed SQL database. The primary design goals are scalability, strong consistency and survivability (hence the name). CockroachDB aims to tolerate disk, machine, rack, and even datacenter failures with minimal latency disruption and no manual intervention. CockroachDB nodes are symmetric; a design goal is homogeneous deployment (one binary) with minimal configuration and no required external dependencies. » Spencer Kimball | github.com

First of all we have to define what is meant by ‘composition’. Composition refers to the way the various elements in a scene are arranged within the frame. As I’ve already mentioned, these are not hard and fast rules but guidelines. That said, many of them have been used in art for thousands of years and they really do help achieve more attractive compositions. I find that I usually have one or more of these guidelines in the back of my mind as I’m setting up a shot. ...

Somewhere, way down at the bottom of the list of requirements, behind, fast, cheap, and flexible is “secure”. That is, until something goes wrong, until the system you build is compromised, then suddenly security is, and always was, the most important thing. Security is a cross-functional concern a bit like Performance. And a bit unlike Performance. Like Performance, our business owners often know they need Security, but aren’t always sure how to quantify it. Unlike Performance, they often don’t know “secure enough” when they see it. ...