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Listen: UX designer Will Grant explains why good design probably can’t save the world [Podcast]

Will Grant on UX in 2019
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UX designer has become a popular job role with tech recruiters, anxious to give roles a little extra sparkle and some additional sex appeal. But has UX become inflated as a term? Is its value being diluted? Although paying close attention to the experience of...

Listen: We discuss what it means to be a hacker with Adrian Pruteanu [Podcast]

What does it mean to be a hacker? Adrian Pruteanu explains in the Packt Podcast
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With numerous high profile security breaches in recent years, cybersecurity feels like a particularly urgent issue. But while the media - and, indeed, the wider world - loves stories of modern vulnerabilities and mischievous hackers, there's often very little attention paid to what causes...

Red Badger Tech Director Viktor Charypar talks monorepos, lifelong learning, and the challenges facing open source software [Interview]

Viktor Charypar from Red badger speaks to Packt
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Back in February, Viktor Charypar, Tech Director at Red badger explained the benefits of using a monorepo. For many teams, especially those without the resources or a highly developed and well-supported engineering culture, the idea of a monorepo might sound a little strange -...

“Developers don’t belong on a pedestal, they’re doing a job like everyone else” – April Wensel on toxic tech culture and Compassionate Coding [Interview]

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It’s well known that there’s a toxic element to tech culture. And although it isn’t new, it has nevertheless surfaced and become more visible thanks to the increasing maturity of the platforms that are today shaping public discourse. As those platforms empower new voices to...

Fastly CTO Tyler McMullen on Lucet and the future of WebAssembly and Rust [Interview]

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Around this time in 2015, W3C introduced WebAssembly, a small binary format that promises to bring near-native performance to the web. Since then it has been well received by web developers, with some going as far as to say that the "death of JavaScript...

Kong CTO Marco Palladino on how the platform is paving the way for microservices adoption [Interview]

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“The service control platform is the next-gen of traditional API management,” Kong CTO and co-founder Marco Palladino tells me. “It’s not about APIs any more, it’s about services.” This shift in the industry is what makes Kong so interesting. It’s one of the reasons I...

Cybersecurity researcher “Elliot Alderson” talks Trump and Facebook, Google and Huawei, and teaching kids online privacy [Podcast]

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For anyone that's watched Mr. Robot, the name Elliot Alderson will sound familiar. However, we're not talking about Rami Malek's hacker alter ego - instead, the name has been adopted as an alias by a real-life white-hat hacker who has been digging into the...

Fastly SVP, Adam Denenberg on Fastly’s new edge resources, edge computing, fog computing, and more

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Last month, Fastly, a provider of an edge cloud platform, introduced a collection of resources to help developers learn the ins and outs of popular cloud solutions. The collection consists of step-by-step tutorials and ready-to-deploy code that developers can customize, and deploy to their...

“The Vue.js community is one of Vue’s biggest selling points” – Marina Mosti on Vue and JavaScript in 2019 [Interview]

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Vue occupies an interesting position in the triumvirate of frontend JavaScript frameworks. Not hyped to the extent that React is, and not as established as Angular, it’s spent the last couple of years quietly minding its business and building an engaged and enthusiastic community...

DevSecOps and the shift left in security: how Semmle is supporting software developers [Podcast]

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Software security has been 'shifting left' in recent years. Thanks to movements like Agile and Dev(Sec)Ops, software developers are finding that they have to take more responsibility for the security of their code. By moving performance and security testing earlier in the development lifecycle...

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Understanding the Foundation of Protocol-oriented Design

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When Apple announced Swift 2 at the World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) in 2016, they also declared that Swift was the world’s first protocol-oriented...

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