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Victoria Drake
Building in context
The best laid plans are made better by staying close to context.
leadership
5 min read
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Victoria Drake
What is TCP/IP? Layers and protocols explained
Alternatively titled, "Why the Internet Protocol Suite is an imaginary rainbow layer cake"
computing
5 min read
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Victoria Drake
WPA Key, WPA2, WPA3, and WEP Key: Wi-Fi security explained
Which one should you be using? Why Wi-Fi security matters.
computing
8 min read
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Victoria Drake
What is TLS? Transport Layer Security encryption explained in plain english
How TLS, digital certificates, and sessions help keep communications secure.
cybersecurity
5 min read
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Victoria Drake
SQLite in production with WAL
An underappreciated candidate for light and fast database transactions.
data
4 min read
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Victoria Drake
Multithreaded Python: slithering through an I/O bottleneck
How taking advantage of parallelism in Python can make your software orders of magnitude faster.
python
5 min read
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Victoria Drake
Breaking bottlenecks 🍾
A talk on the benefits of non-blocking functions for programs, developers, and organizations.
computing
12 min read
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Victoria Drake
Concurrency, parallelism, and the many threads of Santa Claus 🎅
A seasonal exploration of the difference between concurrent, parallel, and multithreaded processes.
computing
7 min read
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Victoria Drake
A coffee-break introduction to time complexity of algorithms
A groundwork understanding of algorithm time complexity and Big O notation in about fifteen minutes with Go code examples and silly food cartoons.
algorithms
16 min read
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Victoria Drake
Iterating over objects and arrays: frequent errors
A quick reference to why your code isn't working, or some errors I frequently make with iteration when the coffee wears off.
coding
4 min read