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How To Create a New Branch In GitHub?

Managing different features and fixes without tangling the core code is crucial. This is where the understanding of branching in GitHub enters the chat. Think of a branch in GitHub as a parallel universe for your project, where you can experiment, develop, and refine new features or fixes, all without impacting the main codebase. It’s a fundamental practice that not only keeps your project organized but also creates a flexible and collaborative development environment.

Don't Git Attacked: How Git Protects Against Source Code Exposure

Git is a distributed version control system that empowers developers with version control features and local repositories. In most production settings, Git is paired with a hosted service for distributed access with minimal repository configuration requirements. However, using a hosted server for source control can introduce new attack vectors in source control management (SCM). This article provides suggestions for security concerns around Git use.

What is IaC? Infrastructure as code explained in 60 seconds

IaC or infrastructure as code is the codifying of our infrastructure. it takes the manual tasks that a sys admin would have done and it makes it repeatable and scalable. IaC can be declarative or descriptive and uses lots of different tools like Terraform Ansible and Puppet to name a few. This video explains what IaC is and how it works in 60 seconds.

GitHub Backup Essentials: Download a Single File from GitHub

When it comes to data management in software development you, as a developer, should know how to efficiently download a single GitHub file. Often, devs and project managers need to download individual files for local testing, archival purposes, version comparison, or any other reason you can make up. It can seem daunting. In this article, we will guide you through various methods to download a single file from the GitHub repository, whether it’s public or private repository.

Cloudflare breach - How the Okta attack led to Cloudflare systems getting hacked: Breach Breakdown

In this video, we drill down into the recent breach of Cloudflare systems including how attackers were able to use stolen credentials from the Okta attack to move laterally and hack the Cloudflare internal Atlassian server. The security incident shows the dangers of secrets sprawl not only in internal systems but also in the supply chain leading to potential data leaks.

Pulumi VS Terraform: The Definitive Guide to Choosing Your IaC Tool

In the cloud-native era, Infrastructure as Code (IaC; read more about it in this blog here) has become the de-facto standard for managing cloud infrastructure, and more. While Terraform has been around for almost a decade, and it had been the one-and-only cloud-agnostic option for a couple of years before competitors emerged, now the landscape is a whole lot more diverse: we've got AWS CDK, CDK for Terraform, and there is a relatively new kid on the block: Pulumi.