How Google wants to make the web QUICer, your battery status says a lot about you, and more you need to know
Greg Leffler
Director of Developer Evangelism at Splunk. Former SRE Leader and Editor at Large at LinkedIn.
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Mattias Geniar writes an excellent overview of Google's QUIC protocol and how it promises to make the web faster by throwing out half the existing stack.
Lukasz Olejnik tells us how you can be spied on using the new Battery Status API and discusses why privacy advocates should be concerned.
John Szczepaniak gives us a peek in to the Japanese games industry in a series of short videos showing off what it's like in the birthplace of modern entertainment.
Catalin Cimpanu explains how popular software distribution site Fosshub was compromised and how several popular binaries (including the Windows utility Classic Shell) had their installers replaced with a version that includes a bootloader-erasing piece of malware.
Trying to learn how to write C? Try using CLARA, an experimental tool that gives automated feedback on programs. It's surprising how well it works - give it a try for yourself.
Finally, if you're trying to learn about how to pass coding interviews, you owe it to yourself to check out this video from Jackson Gabbard, which goes into detail about what you'll be asked and how to nail an architecture or systems design interview:
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Paul Allen, Microsoft co-founder, writes about how the Living Computer Museum in Seattle restored and revitalized a Xerox Alto. If you don't know what the Alto is, it's basically the foundation for all modern computing, and the article is absolutely worth a read.
What is DevOps?Doug Winnie tells us in this concise overview of a complex field. Learn about why it matters and how it's different than being a sysadmin.
How did you get started in computing? You were probably at least a little confused and overwhelmed at first. Kunal Kandekar writes a phenomenal story about how he came to be a software engineer and his first exposure to the world of programming.
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Delta Air Lines suffered a massive system outage on Monday morning, leaving tens of thousands of their passengers stranded. Delta's press release implicated a power outage as being the cause of the problems. How can we design systems to be more resilient to the unexpected? Write about how you can design for the unexpected and include the hashtag #SWE somewhere in your post.
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Semi Retired Systems Integrator. Mr Fixit. IT Consultant, Problem Solver and Troubleshooter
8 年Delta may be saying Power outage but in this day and age that should not be the issue it is clearly is in Delta land. They are going to lose a lot of money and suffer significant reputational damage. Over a power issue? I doubt it. It is more likely a cover up but we will see.