HYTE Readings - January 2025
Our monthly running blog post of articles from all around the web. Read what WE read at HYTE.
Front-End Debugging Part 3: Networking
Learn how to effectively debug network issues in web development with browser developer tools in Chrome and Firefox, which offer powerful capabilities like monitoring network requests, simulating different connection speeds, and modifying and reissuing requests without additional software. Learn to leverage features for managing local storage and session states to reproduce and diagnose bugs, and how to use throttling to test performance under various network conditions. These comprehensive tools are essential for front-end developers to efficiently identify and solve networking problems, ensuring a better user experience and a smoother development process.
Shai Almog - January 31, 2025 - Dzone
Moving on from React, a Year Later
A year after moving away from React, Scholarly has experienced significant growth, raising a seed round, achieving SOC 2 Type II compliance, and expanding both their customer base and team, while simplifying their technology stack to Rails, Stimulus, MySQL, and server-rendered architecture. This shift has resulted in more reliable and testable applications, a substantial reduction in the lines of code, especially in JavaScript, and a faster, more efficient performance due to the server-rendered approach. The company plans to continue with this technology strategy, emphasizing the cost-effectiveness and efficiency of writing less code and maintaining simplicity in their applications.
Kelly Sutton - January 18, 2025
How to Configure SSH for GitHub Authentication
The article provides a detailed guide on configuring SSH authentication for GitHub on Linux. It covers the processes of checking for existing SSH keys, generating a new SSH key, adding the key to the SSH agent, ensuring the SSH key persists across terminal sessions, and finally, adding the SSH key to the GitHub account. The guide also includes steps on testing the SSH connection and configuring Git to use SSH for secure repository access without needing to re-enter credentials.
John Ajera - January 16, 2025 - Dev Community
Is Private Cloud Having a Moment?
The resurgence of private cloud, amplified by businesses' desire for data privacy and the intense compute needs of generative AI, has led enterprises to reevaluate their IT strategies, favoring a blend of private and hybrid cloud approaches. Private cloud solutions are gaining traction, as highlighted by industry leaders and substantial investments in private cloud infrastructure by companies like Dell and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which offer enhanced security and cost efficiency for specialized workloads. This strategic shift is driven by the need for greater control over costs and data privacy, as well as the adaptability required to leverage advanced AI capabilities within a secure and compliant architecture.
Matt Ashare - January 16, 2025 - CIODive
UK Considers Banning Ransomware Payments
The UK government is contemplating a ban on ransomware payments for public sector bodies and critical national infrastructure to deter cybercriminals by making key industries less appealing targets. This initiative accompanies mandatory reporting of ransomware attacks within 72 hours, aiming to enhance law enforcement's response to cyber crimes and reduce financial incentives for hackers. Additionally, this proposed legislation raises concerns about potentially overburdening small and micro-businesses, which might struggle with compliance due to the lack of resources for specialist ransomware insurance or recovery services.
Fiona Jackson - January 15, 2025 - TechRepublic
A Developer's Guide to Modern Queue Patterns
Suleiman outlines the critical role queue patterns play in building reliable, scalable distributed systems. It introduces several key queue patterns, such as Dead Letter Queues (DLQs) for handling message processing failures, Priority Queues for managing tasks by urgency, and Delay Queues for scheduling future message processing. Additionally, it discusses advanced queue patterns like Fan-Out Queues for parallel processing and Work Pool Patterns for distributing tasks across multiple workers, offering detailed implementation considerations and real-world applications for each pattern.
Suleiman Dibirov - January 14, 2025 - DZone
Apple Patches Flaw That Allows Kernel Security Bypassing
Apple has patched a significant vulnerability, identified as CVE-2024-44243, which allowed hackers to bypass macOS's System Integrity Protection (SIP) using third-party kernel extensions, potentially leading to malware installation and elevated system access. The flaw was initially discovered by Microsoft and involves exploiting private entitlements linked to system updates and security extensions to manipulate child processes within macOS. Microsoft stressed the importance of monitoring for anomalous behavior by specially entitled processes, highlighting the broader need for enhanced detection to protect against such vulnerabilities that jeopardize kernel security.
Akshaya Asokan - January 14, 2025 - Data Breach Today
Tech Salaries Barely Inched Up In 2024
In 2024, IT worker salaries experienced a marginal increase of 1.2%, not keeping pace with inflation, despite the average tech worker earning $112,500 annually, as reported by Dice. The demand for IT professionals with AI expertise surged, offering them an 18% salary premium over their peers, amid a broader tech job market adjustment where the IT unemployment rate hit a four-year peak at 3.7%. This shift has resulted in nearly half of the tech workforce actively seeking new job opportunities, up significantly from the previous year.
Roberto Torres - January 14, 2025 - CIODive
Cloud Providers Are Running Out Of ‘Next Big Things’
Cloud providers are hitting an "innovation wall," with a marked slowdown in groundbreaking services, as the industry matures and core issues in cloud computing have largely been resolved. Instead of launching revolutionary technologies, companies like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud are now focusing on optimization and market retention, making incremental improvements to their existing services. Enterprises are encouraged to drive their own innovation and intertwine it with cloud services to create real value, as the industry shifts from pioneering rapid advancements to a more methodical approach to solving complex problems.
David Linthicum - January 07, 2025 - InfoWorld
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Esther Shein - January 3, 2025 - TechRepublic
Cost-Conscious Cloud Repatriation Strategies
As cloud computing costs soar, many companies are reassessing their reliance on public cloud services and are increasingly adopting cloud repatriation strategies—shifting workloads back to on-premises setups to manage expenses effectively. High-profile cases like GEICO illustrate the trend, as they moved workloads back in-house after facing unexpectedly high costs and operational complexities in the cloud. This shift is driving the adaptation of hybrid environments that blend public cloud capabilities with private infrastructure to optimize costs, enhance data control, and improve service reliability.
David Linthicum - December 20, 2024 - InfoWorld
Small Teams: Why the Mentality of Lean and Small Always Wins
David discusses the benefits and strategies of managing small teams, using the analogy of a childhood game to highlight the effectiveness of smaller, more agile groups. He emphasizes that small teams can excel by leveraging high talent density, a broad and deep skill set among members, and fostering a high level of trust and accountability. These factors enable small teams to be more versatile, make quicker decisions, and ultimately be more productive than their larger counterparts, suggesting a shift towards "fitscaling" in the business environment, prioritizing efficiency and adaptability over rapid, unchecked growth.
David Hoang - December 15, 2024 - Proof of Concept
