Part 4 : 📦 Managing Azure Storage - Containers, Access Tiers & Secure Access Control

Faith Aneke Ada |
Overview With the virtual network and VM fully configured,the next responsibility shifted to storage management. This part of the project focused on three critical things: •Storing data efficiently •Optimizing storage cost •Controlling and revoking access... read more

Unix Timestamps Explained: What Every Developer Should Know

Sven Schuchardt |
You're tailing a log file and you see this: [1712700000] ERROR: connection timeout What is 1712700000? Is it a bug? A timestamp? A version number? If you've ever stared at a number like that and felt unsure, this article is for you. By the end you'll know exactly what Unix timestamps are, ... read more

Understanding Vector Pipelines: From Config Files to Data Flow

Mohamed Hussain S |
Part 2 of a series on building a metrics pipeline into ClickHouseRead Part 1: Why my metrics pipeline with Telegraf didn’t work Picking Up Where Things Broke In the previous part, I talked about trying to build a metrics pipeline using Telegraf - and why that approach didn’t work for m... read more

Agentic tool use in Aerie workflows

Paton Wong |
A key defining feature of agents is the ability to use tools to interact with its surrounding environment. Interaction can include gathering information from external sources or triggering actions. With respect to software agents, the environment does not necessarily refer to a physical environmen... read more

🍪 Cookie-Based JWT Authentication

pial shek |
A few weeks ago, I was staring at a project thinking — “Where is the safest place for a frontend to store these tokens?” 🤔 Every tutorial said the same thing: localStorage. But something felt… off. ⚠️ So I started digging deeper 🔍 And realized — if any malicious script runs on the page, localS... read more

Looking for Android beta testers - 16 casual games need love

JellyBolt Games |
Hey everyone 👋 So I've been building casual games for the past few months — just HTML5/JS games wrapped for Android with Capacitor. Nothing groundbreaking, just fun little time-wasters like puzzle games, arcade shooters, card games, that kind of stuff. The thing is, Google Play now requires you ... read more

Automating Terraform Testing: From Unit Tests to End-to-End Validation

Mary Mutua |
Day 18 of my Terraform journey was one of the most exciting so far because it brought everything together: local testing, real AWS validation, and a CI/CD pipeline that runs automatically in GitHub Actions. In Chapter 9 of Terraform: Up & Running, Yevgeniy Brikman explains that manual testing ... read more

Agentforce + External API: The Security Layer Nobody Warns You About

Madalitso Nyemba |
The Salesforce ecosystem has been buzzing about Agentforce for a while now. But there is a difference between knowing it exists and actually building with it. Having recently worked on an implementation that pushed Agentforce beyond out-of-the-box capabilities, I want to share something practical. ... read more

Fixing yt-dlp in Docker: n-challenge EJS scripts, Deno 2.x, and the player_client=ios cookie trap

nareshipme |
If you run a video processing worker that downloads YouTube content with yt-dlp, you've probably hit the n-challenge wall: downloads stall or fail with a Sign in to confirm you're not a bot error, or the n-parameter isn't being decoded correctly, leaving you with throttled or broken streams. After ... read more

Angular & the "Disappearing this": Why Arrow Functions are More Than Just Syntax Sugar

Arkadiusz Graczyk |
Let's be honest — when was the last time you typed the word function inside an Angular component? Probably never. We all reach for () => {} like it's muscle memory. In .subscribe(), in setTimeout(), inside RxJS operators — arrows everywhere. But have you ever actually stopped mid-keystroke and ... read more