Using JSON Web Tokens with Node.js
This article explains the concept of JSON Web Tokens, or JWTs. The article covers how JWTs are used to authenticate API requests. Continue reading Using JSON Web Tokens with Node.js on SitePoint.
Read moreBuilding a Digital Fortress: How to Strengthen DNS Against DDoS Attacks?
Building a fortress around DNS is a necessity for ensuring the resilience of internet services. Here’s how to strengthen it. Continue reading Building a Digital Fortress: How to Strengthen DNS Against DDoS Attacks? on SitePoint.
Read moreAre long context windows the end of RAG?
The home team is joined by Michael Foree, Stack Overflow’s director of data science and data platform, and occasional cohost Cassidy Williams, CTO at Contenda, for a conversation about long context windows, retrieval-augmented generation, and how Databricks’ new open LLM could change the game for developers. Plus: How will FTX
Read moreMore Laguerre images
A week or two ago I wrote about Laguerre’s root-finding method and made some associated images. This post gives a couple more examples. Laguerre’s method is very robust in the sense that it is likely to converge to a root, regardless of the starting point. However, it may be difficult
Read moreHow to break into data science: Q&A guide
Introduction Do you enjoy making sense of numbers, using statistics, and creating visualizations of data? If so, a career in data science is likely a good fit for you. Becoming a data scientist is a smart career move, too: data scientists in the US earn an average salary of over
Read moreCrafting Interactive Scatter Plots with Plotly
Plotly is a graphing library that makes it easy to create high-quality graphs online. Learn to use it to create interactive scatter plots. Continue reading Crafting Interactive Scatter Plots with Plotly on SitePoint.
Read moreChris’ Corner: Hard Things
Julia Evans has an extremely relatable and extremely charming talk in Making Hard Things Easy. Julia has a way of putting her finger on technology concepts that are notoriously difficult and making them easier to understand. She does this both by sharing her own tactics, like learning a reduced set
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