Explores fast, one-stage object detection models like YOLO, SSD, and RetinaNet, comparing them to slower two-stage R-CNN models.
Exploring the quicklink library for intelligent prefetching in Angular applications, comparing it to Guess.js and Gatsby's approaches.
How to properly validate Azure AD tokens in a multitenant ASP.NET Core app using a custom issuer validator.
A tech professional reviews his 2018 goals, including building a cloud practice, learning Go/Python, creating courses, blogging, and speaking.
A guide to optimizing costs when using Azure Cosmos DB, covering its pricing model, design considerations, and best practices for efficient usage.
A detailed analysis of the malicious event-stream npm package backdoor, its timeline, and the social engineering attack that led to its inclusion.
A web developer critiques Google's dominant influence on the web, discussing the pros and cons of its initiatives like performance ranking and AMP.
A proposal to standardize logging in Go by using the standard log.Logger as a pipe and composing solutions around it to fix ecosystem fragmentation.
A guide for open source maintainers on how to responsibly abandon a project, comparing the 'fork it' and 'hand-off' approaches.
A retrospective analysis of the .NET platform's evolution and community contributions over four years since its open-source release.
A case study on using Elasticsearch as the primary data store for a large e-commerce platform's search ETL pipeline, replacing legacy Oracle systems.
A VMworld 2018 talk encouraging IT Ops and sysadmins to start coding with PowerShell/PowerCLI, explaining core concepts for beginners.
A video tutorial series covering Django's authentication system, including signup, login, password management, and view protection.
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.
An interview with Maven developer Robert Scholte discussing the inner workings of the project and future plans for Maven 4 and 5.
Explains how AWS VPC public/private subnets and EC2 instances with/without public IPs handle Internet ingress and egress traffic via NAT and routing.
A guide to deploying the EFK (Elasticsearch, Fluentd, Kibana) logging stack on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) using a custom Helm chart.
Explores limitations of Batch Execution Mode on Rowstore Indexes in SQL Server, including heuristics and missing operators.
A preview of a VMworld session on why IT operations professionals should learn coding basics, using PowerShell/PowerCLI examples.
