A Continuous Packaging Pipeline
presentation describing some nice automation tools for packaging vendor code for deployment
(tags: deployment fosdem presentations slides debian deb fpm apt-get)
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a new C++ template library from Google which implements an in-memory B-Tree container type, suitable for use as a drop-in replacement for std::map, set, multimap and multiset. Lower memory use, and reportedly faster due to better cache-friendliness
(tags: c++ google data-structures containers b-trees stl map set open-source)
Clairvoyant Squirrel: Large Scale Malicious Domain Classification
Storm-based service to detect malicious DNS domain usage from streaming pcap data in near-real-time. Uses string features in the DNS domain, along with randomness metrics using Markov analysis, combined with a Random Forest classifier, to achieve 98% precision at 10,000 matches/sec
(tags: storm distributed distcomp random-forest classifiers machine-learning anti-spam slides)
“Security Engineering” now online in full
Ross Anderson says: ‘I’m delighted to announce that my book Security Engineering – A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems is now available free online in its entirety. You may download any or all of the chapters from the book’s web page.’
(tags: security books reference coding software encryption ross-anderson)
Slide Rule Calculations By Example
Harder than using a calculator, that’s for sure
(tags: slide-rule gadgets tech history antiques calculating)