Month: November 2022

Brute force attacks are an attempt by a user to gain access to an account or system by constantly entering credentials, either manually or automatically.

 The objective of the breach is to discover passwords to enter accounts or find hidden links and get hold of confidential data.

OTT (Over-the-top) content platforms have become a part of entertainment today. 

Due to the pandemic and lockdown, OTT platforms have become popular among consumers seeking home entertainment. Most of the major media companies have become a part of the OTT platform. 

Caching is a strategy that can help you conserve resources and improve performance. When you have an oft-run expensive query with a result that seldom changes, caching is an ideal solution. By caching the result of that query, you can return the cached result when necessary. The result is the same, but you save the need to run the expensive query. Everybody wins.

In this article, we will walk through the use of Salesforce Functions to cache expensive queries. For instance, we want to query for some value across a large number of records, and the page requiring this query is often loaded. However, the result will not change from one query execution to the next.

WordPress is the world’s most popular content management system, used by over 40% of all websites. This wide adoption makes it a top target for threat actors and security researchers that get paid for reporting security issues through their public bug bounty program. 

Vulnerability brokers are also very interested in acquiring unpatched vulnerabilities enabling them to take over WordPress instances, sometimes offering up to $300,000 for critical ones. As such, WordPress has a heavily reviewed code base in which researchers are not expected to find low-hanging fruits anymore. My previous research on this target required extensive expertise and effort to uncover security issues. 

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Site reliability engineering aims to keep servers and services running with zero downtime. However, outages and incidents are inevitable, especially when dealing with a complex system that constantly gets new updates. Every company has a relatively similar process to manage incidents, mitigate risks, and analyze root causes. This can be considered an opportunity to identify issues and prevent them from happening, but not every company is successful at making it a constructive process. 

Community Day at EclipseCon 2022 was held in person on Monday, October 24 in Ludwigsburg, Germany. Community Day has always been a great event for Eclipse working groups and project teams, including Jakarta EE/MicroProfile. This year was no exception. A number of great sessions were delivered from prominent folks in the community. The following are the details including session materials. The agenda can still be found here. All the materials can be found here.

Jakarta EE Community State of the Union

The first session of the day was a Jakarta EE community state of the union delivered by Tanja Obradovic, Ivar Grimstad, and Shabnam Mayel. The session included a quick overview of Jakarta EE releases, how to get involved in the work of producing the specifications, a recap of the important Jakarta EE 10 release, and as well as a view of what’s to come in Jakarta EE 11. The slides are embedded below and linked here.

In this article, we will talk about Git. Git it’s a version control system, a tool that tracks changes to your code and shares those changes with others. This article lists the most basic commands that a QA person/developer should know in order to master the management of GitHub repositories at a high level. It will be useful for both beginners and experienced users to review again basic day to day commands.

Setting Your Username in Git

The username is needed to bind commits to your name. This is not the same as the GitHub account username used to log in to the GitHub profile. You can set or change the username using the git config command. The new name will automatically show up in subsequent commits pushed via the command line.

What Is the Difference Between Contributor Individual, Staff Engineer, and Leadership Technical?

Individual Contributors, ICs, are professionals who work with a team or an organization but do not work in management. That is it; they influence a group and an organization; however, they do not have “official responsibility for this.

This contributor performs a great integration and cross-time communication activity and is not isolated, as the name suggests.