Brief Summary:Authentication has become a necessity in a digital world that’s ever-increasing in complexity. What can you do to arm yourself against the constant threat of data breaches and hacks? In this episode Jason sits down with Aviad Mizrachi, CTO and Co-Founder of Frontegg, to give us valuable insight into how Authentication works, and how these help you become more defensible against attacks.This episode touches on the following key topics and ideas:00:00:24 Introduction00:01:10 Introducing Aviad Mizrachi00:04:36 The login00:06:32 The many intricacies of Authentication00:10:25 How are passwords sent to servers?00:11:26 Query param00:16:59 Multi-factor authorization (MFA)00:20:11 Time-based One-Time Password (TOTP)00:28:05 Single Sign-on (SSO) Cross-site scripting00:33:38 Ad: SignalWire, a next-gen video collaboration platform00:35:03 Session tokens00:36:36 Cross-site scripting (XSS)00:39:24 JSON web tokens (JWTs)00:41:24 Difference between session token and refresh token00:49:33 More about Frontegg, Aviad’s company00:54:14 SQL injection attack00:56:11 Auditing and audit logs00:59:42 Authentication in mobile apps01:00:50 Frontegg hiring and intern opportunities01:05:22 Frontegg product offeringsResources mentioned in this episode:Tools Frontegg https://frontegg.com/ TypeScript https://www.typescriptlang.org/ Angular https://angular.io/guide/architecture Microsoft Identity and Access Management https://www.microsoft.com/en-ww/security/business/identity-access-management Google Identity https://developers.google.com/identity Okta https://www.okta.com/ Articles:How Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's Account Was Hacked https://www.wired.com/story/jack-dorsey-twitter-hacked/ Our sponsor for this episode is SignalWirehttps://signalwire.com/You can reach Aviad on:LinkedIn | GitHubIf you’ve enjoyed this episode, you can listen to more on Programming Throwdown’s website: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/Reach out to us via email: programmingthrowdown@gmail.comYou can also follow Programming Throwdown on Facebook | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Player.FM Join the discussion on our DiscordYou can also help support Programming Throwdown through our Patreon★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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117 - Authentication with Aviad Mizrachi

In this duo episode, Jason and Patrick introduce us to the world of hash maps, from buckets and hash functions, to differences between open and closed addressing, to minimal perfect hashes and locality sensitive hashing. A familiarity with hash maps is an oft-overlooked but highly sought-after skill, and it can be a valuable asset for those eyeing a career in programming.Along with the main topic, Jason and Patrick also talk about some of their latest interests: books, gadgets, tools and games.This episode touches on the following key topics and ideas:00:01:27 Playing games with Oculus Quest: Acron, Racket: Nx, Gorn, Superhot 00:11:05 News: “I Made a Water Computer” by Steve Mould00:14:56 colinfurze00:15:52 News: Comprehensive guide to Attention Mechanisms00:21:53 News: Starship SN1500:25:18 News: MailSync now Open source (GPL)00:28:34 Jason’s Book of the Show: Elon Musk00:32:04 Patrick’s Book of the Show: Ready Player Two00:33:40 Jason’s Tool of the Show: Datadog00:38:44 Patrick’s Tool of the Show: I Expect You to Die 00:40:30 Escape rooms00:45:39 Sudoku00:48:35 Hash maps: the promise and idea00:50:59 Hash Functions00:52:34 Examples of hash functions: Cryptographically Secure and Non-Crypto01:01:05 Load Factors01:03:43 Open vs Closed Addressing01:15:10 Minimal Perfect Hash 01:16:25 salts01:19:00 Locality Sensitive HashingResources mentioned in this episode:Tools Mailsync http://mailsync.sourceforge.net/ Mailspring https://getmailspring.com/ Datadog https://www.datadoghq.com/ SHA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Hash_Algorithms MD5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5 MurmurHash https://github.com/aappleby/smhashera xxHash https://cyan4973.github.io/xxHash/ MapReduce https://www.ibm.com/analytics/hadoop/mapreduce Books Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance  Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline Gadgets Oculus Quest 2 https://www.oculus.com/quest-2/ Oculus Link https://www.oculus.com/accessories/oculus-link/ Games Acron: Attack of the Squirrels! https://www.resolutiongames.com/acron Racket: Nx https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/2255408847836468 Gorn https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/3349689215139117 Superhot https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/1921533091289407 I Expect You to Die https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/1987283631365460 The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the WIld https://www.zelda.com/breath-of-the-wild/ Videos: I Made A Water Computer And It Actually Works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxXaizglscw colinfurze YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/colinfurze Articles: Comprehensive guide to Attention Mechanisms https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2019/11/comprehensive-guide-attention-mechanism-deep-learning/ Starship SN15 https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-sn15-launch-landing-success MailSync is now Open Source (GPL) https://community.getmailspring.com/t/a-free-open-source-future-for-mailspring/484 If you’ve enjoyed this episode, you can listen to more on Programming Throwdown’s website: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/Reach out to us via email: programmingthrowdown@gmail.comYou can also follow Programming Throwdown on Facebook | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Player.FM Join the discussion on our DiscordYou can also help support Programming Throwdown through our Patreon★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Hash Maps

Ever wondered how route planning apps, well, plan routes? In this episode, we navigate through this fascinating topic, a field as data-driven and systemic as it is magical and compelling. Joining us is Parker Woodward, Route Expert and Marketing Director for Route4Me. We discuss how route planning works, the intricacies behind it, and how services like Route4Me perform complex balancing acts between machine learning and user-generated feedback.This episode touches on the following key topics and ideas:00:00:23 Introducing Parker00:01:54 Becoming a Route Expert00:04:22 Getting started through smaller startups00:12:41 Leveraging technology for the greater good00:14:36 The magic of route planning00:23:30 Homomorphism and satisfiability00:31:18 Geocoding00:33:06 User-generated feedback00:37:08 Importance of statistics knowledge00:39:34 The degree of automation in route planning00:42:54 Inverse decision-making00:48:47 Operations Research00:53:42 Dwarf Fortress00:56:40 US vs European routes00:57:51 What Route4Me does01:05:38 Working at Route4Me01:10:26 Route4Me APIResources mentioned in this episode:Tools Route4Me https://route4me.com Route4Me API https://route4me.io Waze https://www.waze.com Google Maps https://www.google.com/maps OpenStreetMap https://www.openstreetmap.org MapQuest https://www.mapquest.com DeepMind https://deepmind.com BooksSapiens by Yuval Noah HarariGamesDwarf Fortress http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/ Links Waymo https://waymo.com/ Upwork https://www.upwork.com/ Reach out to Parker via email: parker@routeforme.comCatch Parker on LinkedInIf you’ve enjoyed this episode, you can listen to more on Programming Throwdown’s website: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/Reach out to us via email: programmingthrowdown@gmail.comYou can also follow Programming Throwdown on Facebook | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Player.FM Join the discussion on our DiscordYou can also help support Programming Throwdown through our Patreon★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Route Planning with Parker Woodward

What makes for good documentation? In this episode, we dive into one of the most important yet overlooked facets of coding. With us are Omer Rosenbaum and Tim Post of Swimm.io. Swimm is an app that allows you to create docs coupled with your code, which are auto-synced and integrated into your workflow. It makes for much more efficient, elegant, and accessible documentation. Omer is the CTO of Swimm, and Tim is Principal Development Relations and User Advocate. They are the experts who will guide us through good code documentation practices and tools, as well as share some fascinating real-life examples and stories.This episode touches on the following key topics and ideas:00:01:20 Introducing Omer and Tim00:03:28 Omer: learning tech while in the military00:06:36 Israel Tech Challenge00:08:32 Impostor Syndrome00:12:15 Tim: the consulting career route00:18:15 Stack Overflow elected moderator00:20:59 ZFS and Btrfs 00:22:49 What is good code documentation?00:34:48 Documentation and remote work00:36:99 Good practices00:40:37 Code comments00:45:20 How to write documentation00:46:59 Signs of bad code documentation00:48:05 Swimm overview00:53:21 PyTorch documentation00:54:45 PHP documentation00:56:34 Swimm’s CLI tools01:01:16 Code documentation horror stories01:07:26 Swimm offers for open-source projects and enterprises01:13:47 Working at Swimm01:19:54 The value of remote workResources mentioned in this episode:Tools Swimm https://swimm.io/ ReiserFS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReiserFS PyTorch https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/index.html Electron https://www.electronjs.org/ Git https://git-scm.com/ Stack Overflow https://stackoverflow.com/ Catch Swimm on:Twitter | Facebook | LinkedInIf you’ve enjoyed this podcast, you can listen to more programming news and updates like this one on Programming Throwdown’s website: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/, or send us an email at programmingthrowdown@gmail.com.You can also follow Programming Throwdown on Facebook | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Player.FM You can also help support Programming Throwdown through our Patreon.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Code Documentation with Omer Rosenbaum and Tim Post

In this episode, we’re excited to have Meredydd Luff, the founder of Anvil. Anvil is a powerful tool that allows you to build full stack web apps with just Python. Without the need to be fluent in Javascript or other languages, Anvil is easy enough for beginners, but robust enough for professional work. We talk to Meredydd about Anvil and its features, as well as delve into the importance of making programming more accessible to more people.This episode touches on the following key topics and ideas:00:00:17 Jason introduces Meredydd and Anvil 00:01:06 What is Anvil?00:09:27 Web hydration00:11:00 Jupyter Notebook00:12:49 The Uplink00:14:02 GraphQL00:23:06 How Anvil works00:24:19 Skulpt00:28:09 Brython00:29:04 Pyodide00:32:46 Javascript daisy chaining00:37:11 GRPC and protocol buffers 00:39:03 “Anvil is an abstraction.”00:40:09 Escape hatches00:43:10 Anvil and Webpack00:44:35 “Learn Python and build a website.”00:45:02 Accessibility00:47:16 Meredydd’s personal background, and Anvil’s beginnings00:52:56 Putting your work out there00:56:01 Logging and capturing what people want01:01:06 Ad: ConfigCat01:03:04 Anvil’s parent company, The Tuesday Project Ltd. 01:05:22 Meredydd’s take on venture capitalism on developer tools01:08:42 Working in Anvil01:17:02 Contact details for Meredydd and AnvilResources mentioned in this episode:ToolsAnvil https://anvil.works/Python https://www.python.org/Jupyter Notebook https://jupyter.org/GraphQL https://graphql.org/Skulpt https://skulpt.org/Brython https://brython.info/Transcrypt https://www.transcrypt.org/Pyodide https://pyodide.org/en/stable/VideosMeredydd’s Lightning Talk in PyCon 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHUw3N15v38Turning a Jupyter Notebook into a Web App with Anvil https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh0B4HjQxOUPodcastStories from the Workshop, Anvil’s podcast https://anvil.works/podcastCatch Meredydd on Twitter @meredyddAnvil’s features are offered completely free for teachers and educators. Send Meredydd an inquiry through email at education@anvil.works.Get ConfigCat: https://configcat.com/Get Audible: http://www.audibletrial.com/programmingthrowdownIf you’ve enjoyed this podcast, you can listen to more programming news and updates like this one on Programming Throwdown’s website: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/, or send us an email at programmingthrowdown@gmail.com.You can also follow Programming Throwdown on Facebook | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Player.FM You can also help support Programming Throwdown through our Patreon.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Episode 113 - Full Stack Web Apps Using Only Python with Meredydd Luff

In another duo episode, Jason and Patrick give an in-depth introduction to trees, their many types, approaches and functions, and their importance in modern programming. Also, peppered throughout the episode are the games, books, tools, and ideas that have currently piqued their interest.This episode touches on the following key topics and ideas:00:00:17 Avoiding drama at work00:07:10 News: C++20 (7:10)00:09:37 News: Play Co-op Diablo II in the browser00:12:58 Wreckfest00:15:07 Kaboom00:17:45 The future of remote work00:24:46 Jason’s Book of the Show: Debt: The First 5000 Years00:27:08 fractional-reserve banking00:31:30 DeFi, distributed finance00:33:08 Patrick’s Book of the Show: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, the Illustrated Edition00:35:49 (Ad) Audible00:37:05 Jason’s Tool of the Show: Vagrant00:41:04 Patrick’s Tool of the Show: Zach Gage Games00:45:03 (Ad) ConfigCat00:46:03 feature flags00:47:03 Trees: why are they important? 00:49:43 The divide and conquer approach00:51:34 The agglometric approach00:55:57 Choosing the right tree and algorithm00:57:56 Keeping trees balanced01:01:10 binary trees01:02:52 binary trees and machine learning01:05:28 b-trees01:10:04 spatial trees: the k-d tree01:16:50 k-d trees and multidimension01:18:42 quadtrees and octrees01:21:44 r-treesResources mentioned in this episode:Books Debt: The First 5000 Years, by David Graeber https://amzn.to/3uKEoe9 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, The Illustrated Edition, by JK Rowling https://amzn.to/2R6ILSs Games Diablo II browser game http://clouddiablo.com/ Wreckfest https://www.thqnordic.com/games/wreckfest Zach Gage Games http://stfj.net/ Tools Vagrant https://www.vagrantup.com/ Kaboom https://replit.com/kaboom Articles Article on C++20: https://oleksandrkvl.github.io/2021/04/02/cpp-20-overview.html The debate over remote work: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56771539 Get ConfigCat: https://configcat.com/Get Audible: http://www.audibletrial.com/programmingthrowdownIf you’ve enjoyed this podcast, you can listen to more programming news and updates like this one on Programming Throwdown’s website: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/You can also follow Programming Throwdown on Facebook | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Player.FM You can also help support Programming Throwdown through our Patreon. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Trees

In this episode, we talk with Frank McSherry, Gödel Prize-winning data scientist, and Co-founder and Chief Scientist at Materialize, Inc. Frank shares expert viewpoints drawn from his years as an academic, as well as personal insights on helping run a company at the cutting edge of real-time data streaming.

Episode 111: Real-time Data Streaming with Frank McSherry

Programming Throwdown talks cybersecurity with Dotan Nahum, CEO and Co-founder of Spectral. Dotan provides us with a high-level overview of the role of cybersecurity, its definition, evolution, and current challenges. He also shares tips for small- and medium-sized ventures on how to develop best practices.

Episode 110: Security with Dotan Nahum

We chat with Kevin Urrutia about why marketing is so important to any project, how digital marketing is different than traditional marketing, and what tools we can use to market our ideas. Thanks for listening! Show notes: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/2021/03/episode-109-digital-marketing-with.html

Digital Marketing with Kevin Urrutia

We’re having a duo episode for this month! Patrick and I discuss the relevance of Kotlin, a JVM language used for web backends and android development, and why you should look into it. Also we are testing out adding transcripts to the show notes. Let us know what you think! Show notes: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/2021/03/episode-108-kotlin.html

Kotlin

Happy Holidays! In this show we make predictions about 2021 and take questions from YOU, our loyal fans! Show notes: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/2021/01/episode-107-holiday-episode-2020.html

Holiday 2020!

This month we are speaking with Connel Gauld from Zappar about Augmented Reality. Connel is an AR genius and blows our mind with details on how AR works under the hood and how it's easy for anyone to make AR apps and websites. AR is the next great platform, so it's good to get in early. Give it a listen and tell us what you built! Show notes: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/2020/11/episode-106-augmented-reality-with.html Teamistry: https://link.chtbl.com/teamistry?sid=podcast.throwdown

Augmented Reality

The September episode did arrive.... somewhat delayed, but it's worth the wait!! We have NEW INTRO MUSIC by amazing recording artist Eric Barndollar. We have a NEW PODCAST DEPLOYMENT SCRIPT which means the podcast timestamp will be correct and people won't have to hunt for our latest episodes. Last but not least, we have an AMAZING EPISODE where we interview Peter Voss, founder and CEO of aigo.ai and inventor of the term "Artificial General Intelligence", to discuss chatbots and general AI. Geeking out about AI may be my favorite thing to do on Earth, so I can't put in words how incredibly excited I am to share this episode with everyone. Show notes: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/2020/10/episode-105-chatbot-with-brain-with.html Teamistry: https://link.chtbl.com/teamistry?sid=podcast.throwdown

A Chatbot with a Brain

How do the most popular websites stay online? How do mobile app developers release new versions safely and monitor them? Today we have Matt Watson from Stackify on the show to talk about Developer Operations (DevOps) and site reliability. These two areas are critical for writing software that people depend on. DevOps is both a software exercise but also an exercise in process creation and process management. In this episode, we unpack these topics and do a deep dive to explain how to deploy software that other people can trust to remain online and secure. Do you have any questions about DevOps? Ask away in our #questions channel on Discord! https://discord.gg/r4V2zpC Show notes: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/2020/08/episode-104-devops-and-site-reliability.html

DevOps and Site Reliability

Many of us have found ourselves working from home due to current events. In this show, we chat with Adam Bell who has been working from home for the past decade. We also do the show interactive on Twitch.tv and take your questions! Give it a listen for a ton of great advice on working from home and some pitfalls to avoid. Thanks again for your donations in these tough times. We really appreciate your support! Feel free to continue the discussion on Discord (link in the show notes)! Show notes: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/2020/07/episode-103-working-from-home.html

Working From Home

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