Mon.Jul 02, 2018

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In Defense of Humanity—How Complex Systems Failed in Westworld **spoilers**

High Scalability

The Westworld season finale made an interesting claim: humans are so simple and predictable they can be encoded by a 10,247-line algorithm. Small enough to fit in the pages of a thin virtual book. Perhaps my brain was already driven into a meta- fugal state by a torturous, Escher-like, time shifting plot line , but I did observe myself thinking— that could be true.

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Protect GraphQL Properties With JWT In A Node.js Application

The Polyglot Developer

So you started playing around with GraphQL and Node.js. Did you happen to get up to speed with my previous tutorial titled, Getting Started with GraphQL Development Using Node.js ? Regardless on how you’ve jumped into GraphQL, you’re probably at a time where you need to figure out how to protect certain queries or pieces of data from the general public through some kind of permissions or roles.

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