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December 20, 2021

5 rules for getting data architecture right

By following these guidelines early in your data architecture process, you can avoid serious problems in the future. Read more ▶

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Sponsored by Akamai and AT&T: Protecting Critical Public Infrastructure: The Role of Threat Intelligence

It is increasingly common to hear about cyber threats to energy and utility industries – our critical infrastructure. These are malicious acts by adversaries that target data, intellectual property, or other digital assets.

Cloud numbers don’t add up

Everybody says they're into cloud, but total IT spending on cloud is still just at 6%. What gives?

How developers scrambled to secure the Log4j vulnerability

A group of developers and maintainers scrambled to secure the Log4j vulnerability over the weekend, but there is still a lot of work to do to clean up the mess.

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Microsoft reveals plans for Entity Framework 7.0

Themes for the next version of the object-relational mapper for .NET include support for JSON columns and raw SQL queries for unmapped types.

Ruby on Rails 7 rejiggers JavaScript support

Now available in a production release, Rails 7 removes the requirements for Node.js and Webpack, while supporting NPM and ES module imports.

Docstrings in Python: Code as comments, and comments as code

Learn how to use Python's docstrings feature to embed documentation directly into your code, available through Python's help system and accessible by third-party documentation-generation tools.

Astonishingly easy mapping in R with mapview

Create interactive maps of GIS data with tooltips, hover text, and legends in one short and simple line of code. Plus get extras like side-by-side sliders and multiple maps in sync.

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