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Application vulnerabilities: Important lessons from the OWASP top 10 about application security risks

Dynatrace

The advent of microservices and serverless computing means that cloud-based applications may consist of thousands of containerized services. For these, it’s important to turn off auto-completing forms, encrypt data both in transit and at rest with up-to-date encryption techniques, and disable caching on data collection forms.

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Revisiting “Serverless Architectures”

The Symphonia

I started writing “ Serverless Architectures ” in May 2016. Fast forward to two years later and the article has had more than half a million visits, regularly appears in the top five Google search results for “Serverless”, and helped launched Symphonia ?—?my Serverless is a highly dynamic area and two years is a lifetime in this world.

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Building A Static-First MadLib Generator With Portable Text And Netlify On-Demand Builder Functions

Smashing Magazine

This will submit the entire text to a serverless function in Netlify to save it to the Sanity data store. We can use 11ty’s new Serverless mode to build them on request using Netlify’s On-Demand Builders to cache each Madlib. Portable Text is an open-source specification designed to treat rich text as data.

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Gone Floating Labels And Green Lighthouse Scores

Smashing Magazine

Gael Metais suggested to more aggressively subset web fonts and look into caching issues with our AVIF files. If a browser doesn’t support AVIF, it gets a JPEG file (properly cached), The content negotiation happens via <picture> + srcset in the browser. What Is Serverless? How Can I Optimize My Home Workspace?

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Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery on AWS

The Symphonia

Back in the Dim And Distant Past of 2003 I even co-led an open source project that brought some at-the-time interesting innovations to this area. we help people create a Continuous Deployment pipeline before they start getting into the nitty-gritty of Serverless Architecture. You don’t give it scripts to run?—?you

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An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems

The Morning Paper

An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems Gan et al., It’s a pretty impressive effort to pull together and make available in open source (not yet available as I write this) such a suite, and I’m sure explains much of the long list of 24 authors on this paper.

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How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience

Smashing Magazine

For Performance Monitoring Many of you reading this may already be familiar with Next.js, but it is a popular open-source JavaScript framework that allows us to monitor our website’s performance in real-time. It also opens up the possibility for more effective use of caching strategies, potentially enhancing load times further.