Prepare Your Business Now to Respond to the Next Big Security Flaw
Our team recommends 3 best practices to help your organization react quickly and decisively to the next inevitable security concern.
Side Project Spotlight: IoT with Al Iacovella
Building a holiday light display for his own home spurred Al Iacovella’s interest in microcontrollers, data, and the internet of things.
Using Cloud Deployments To Mitigate Log4Shell and Similar Vulnerabilities
It’s been a week since CVE-2021-44228, a remote code execution vulnerability in Log4J 2.x, hit the world. Hopefully by now everybody reading this has updated their Java deployments with the latest Log4J libraries. But no doubt there’s another vulnerability, in some popular framework or library, just waiting to make its presence known. This post is about Cloud features that act to minimize the blast radius of such vulnerabilities.
First Look at Amazon Redshift Serverless
Amazon Redshift’s launch in 2012 was one of the “wow!” moments in my experience with AWS. Here was a massively parallel database system that could be rented for 25 cents per node-hour. Here we are in 2021, and AWS has just announced Redshift Serverless, in which you pay for the compute and storage that you use, rather than a fixed monthly cost for a fixed number of nodes with a fixed amount of storage. And for a lot of use cases, I think that’s a great idea. So I spent some time kicking the tires, and this is what I learned.
Functional React components, a primer, part 2
Part 2 of our series on React with functional components and hooks. Ken will discuss how to use hooks to process forms, and use References.
Craft a Data Strategy “Mindset” for 2022
A well-designed data strategy is critical to success. Here are 3 philosophies to help you design an optimal data strategy for your business.
Functional React Components: A primer, part 1
Are you a React developer who is learning Functional React programming for the first time? Start here.
Serverless Databasing with the Aurora Data API
Earlier this year I wrote that Amazon Aurora Serverless allows you to implement a fully serverless application with a relational database. In this post I show you how to use the Data API to do just that.
Next.js, a framework for server generated/rendered/optimized React applications
Next.js is a framework for serving React-based single-page applications. In this article, I'll show you why people are using it as a way to accelerate the speed of launching React applications, improve search indexing, and pre-rendering of static content.
Chariot Day 2021: A Recap
Chariot Day is a longstanding company tradition where Charioteers give presentations on topics about which they are passionate. The topics may be, but don’t necessarily have to be, related to software development. I am a new Chariot member, and I was eagerly looking forward to my first Chariot Day. This year’s presentations were all over the map: From astrophotography to woodworking, from on-board automobile computer modules to sailing, and from writing a new face for a Garmin watch to the…