Author's schedule and session highlights for the PASS Summit 2018, a major Microsoft Data Platform conference.
A developer shares ten essential principles for building and managing scalable software platforms, based on lessons from running platforms at scale.
A technical analysis of Apple's unreleased AirPower charging animation, exploring the iOS ChargingViewService and SceneKit implementation.
A conference veteran shares essential experiences for first-time AWS re:Invent attendees, including keynotes and the re:Play party.
A practical guide to finding and exploiting hosts vulnerable to the libSSH authentication bypass (CVE-2018-10933).
A technical critique of SQL Server 2019's Master Data Services (MDS) database, highlighting poor default configurations like outdated compatibility levels and page verification settings.
A developer details their process of recovering a forgotten UniFi controller password by exploring the MongoDB database within a Docker container.
Building a Mortal Kombat controller using TensorFlow.js, CNNs, and transfer learning for posture classification from a webcam feed.
Sway 1.0-beta.1, a major release of the i3-compatible Wayland compositor, is now available with significant stability and feature improvements.
Explains how to register a service both as an interface and as its concrete type in ASP.NET Core's built-in dependency injection container.
A guide to using Azure Functions with Java, covering the v2 runtime, local development, and the Java worker for serverless applications.
An update on the svy2lme R package for fitting linear mixed models with complex survey data, including a comparison with Stata.
SQL Server 2019's Master Data Services (MDS) finally replaces the Silverlight-based web interface with a modern, browser-agnostic HTML front-end.
A developer shares their experience and practical tips for successfully preparing for and passing the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam.
A developer shares 10 frequently violated clean code principles, covering naming, comments, duplication, and formatting.
A tutorial on using R to reproduce and analyze map projection distortions, focusing on the Web Mercator projection with reproducible code.
A guide to deploying the EFK (Elasticsearch, Fluentd, Kibana) logging stack on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) using a custom Helm chart.
Explains the APPROX_COUNT_DISTINCT function for faster, memory-efficient distinct counts in SQL, comparing it to exact COUNT(DISTINCT).
An introduction to flow-based deep generative models, explaining how they explicitly learn data distributions using normalizing flows, compared to GANs and VAEs.
Explores limitations of Batch Execution Mode on Rowstore Indexes in SQL Server, including heuristics and missing operators.
