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Tweaking TCP for Real-time Applications: Nagle's Algorithm and Delayed Acknowledgment
TCP is a complex protocol.Don’t get me wrong. It is a marvelous piece of engineering that gives us the reliable data transmission guarantee that other protocols don’t provide. Reliabl...
Mar 19, 2017Cluster Analysis Using K-means Explained
Clustering or cluster analysis is the process of dividing data into groups (clusters) in such a way that objects in the same cluster are more similar to each other than those in other...
Feb 19, 2017Certificate Authorities - Do You Know Who You Trust?
HTTPS (aka HTTP over the secure TLS protocol) provide a secure communication channel between web browsers and servers to guard against man-in-the-middle attacks. Although researchers ...
Feb 18, 2017Testers Make Software Teams Highly Productive
To put it mildly, developers are not great at testing their own products. Bias, pride, wrong assumptions, lack of time, switching contexts, all play a role in making developers ineffe...
Feb 17, 2017What Is Yak Shaving? Advice for Software Developers on Staying Focused
Yak shaving is defined as: what you are doing when you’re doing some stupid, fiddly little task that bears no obvious relationship to what you’re supposed to be working on, but yet a...
Feb 13, 2017Committing Teamicide by Micromanagement
What is micromanagement?Micromanagement is a “management style whereby a manager closely observes or controls the work of subordinates or employees”.Micromanagement is bad. It hurts m...
Feb 08, 2017htop Explained Visually
htop is an interactive process viewer and system monitor. It’s one of my favorite linux tools that I use regularly to monitor system resources. If you take top and put it on steroids,...
Jan 20, 2017Review of Andrew Ng's Machine Learning Course and Next Steps
Back when I was in college, I enrolled in a couple of introductory AI courses. I quickly got bored: artificial neural networks didn’t sound very practical and the dry mathematics was ...
Jan 19, 2017If Your Site Isn't Using HTTPS, You Are Doing It Wrong
We live in a day and age where we simply cannot take our right to privacy for granted. When we communicate over unprotected channels, we expose our messages to everyone who happens to...
Jan 18, 2017There's No Backdoor in WhatsApp. Just a Weakness That Could Be Exploited
Last week, Guardian ran a story claiming that a backdoor built into WhatsApp can allows its parent company, Facebook, to read user messages despite advertising end-to-end encryption a...
Jan 17, 2017