- 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
- Victoria Drake
A cron job that could save you from a ransomware attack
How a simple scheduled job can help you quickly recover from ransomware.
cybersecurity
7 min read
- Victoria Drake
Publishing GitHub event data with GitHub Actions and Pages
A guide to overcoming the GitHub event data horizon with a little command-line magic.
data
8 min read
- Victoria Drake
Secure application architecture basics: separation, configuration, and access
A starting point for building secure application architecture, for busy developers.
cybersecurity
7 min read
- Victoria Drake
Migrating to the cloud but without screwing it up, or how to move house
A practical guide to moving to cloud services with minimal downtime, using AWS examples.
aws
11 min read
- Victoria Drake
Hackers are Googling your plain text passwords: preventing sensitive data exposure
Why sensitive data controls need to be established long before you think you need them, as demonstrated by Google dorking.
cybersecurity
8 min read
- Victoria Drake
SQL injection and XSS: what white hat hackers know about trusting user input
A primer on SQL injection and cross site scripting, and how to handle user input in software development.
cybersecurity
11 min read
- Victoria Drake
How to write Bash one-liners for cloning and managing GitHub and GitLab repositories
Using xargs and awk in Bash to automate managing remote-hosted repositories.
terminal
8 min read
- Victoria Drake
Knapsack problem algorithms for my real-life carry-on knapsack
Using a greedy algorithm and dynamic programming to pack my full-time nomad travel bag.
algorithms
23 min read
- Victoria Drake
Things you need to know about becoming a Data Scientist
Five Data Scientists discuss a day in the life and what it takes to be a successful Data Scientist.
data
8 min read