The Daily Index — Friday, September 22, 2023 · TLDR Index

OPINIONS & ADVICE

TLDR Web Dev

TLDR Web Dev

HOW-TO EVALUATE A PRODUCT ROADMAP, FOR ENGINEERS

Engineers should know how to evaluate a product roadmap because, after all, they aren’t there just to write code. They need to solve problems for the user, which means being able to understand how the product is going to evolve over time. This article presents a list of questions to evaluate a roadmap and provides advice on making one more clear.

stephen.fm · 9 min

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XML IS BETTER THAN YAML. HEAR ME OUT…

This piece argues that XML is better than YAML because YAML is too error-prone. The YAML specification has many features that go unused and only make it harder to use properly. There are at least some cases where XML is good to use, such as document outlines.

changelog.com · 4 min

TLDR Web Dev

THE WEBP 0DAY

Google released a new stable update for Chrome early last week. The update included a single security fix that was reported by Apple's Security Engineering and Architecture (SEAR) team. The issue, CVE-2023-4863, involved a heap buffer overflow in the WebP image library. The Google team acknowledged that an exploit for it still exists. This post attempts to explain what is known about the unusual circumstances of this bug. It provides a new technical analysis and proof-of-concept trigger for CVE-2023-4863.

blog.isosceles.com · 15 min

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CERN SWAPS OUT DATABASES TO FEED ITS PETABYTE-A-DAY HABIT

The particle accelerator at CERN spews out around a petabyte of data daily. Monitoring the computing infrastructure that processes the data is crucial. CERN implemented an open source wide column time series database as backend storage for its monitoring database, Prometheus. After a while, it used the same database for its frontend database too.

theregister.com · 5 min

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ARE BLAMING AI

A recent Google Search update that changed guidelines to permit AI-generated content is causing anger across the web. Some site owners say they are being pushed down in results with huge drops in traffic.

businessinsider.com · 4 min

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GROUPING DIGITS IN SQL

A new feature in PostgreSQL 16 is the ability to group digits in numeric literals by separating them with underscores.

peter.eisentraut.org · 4 min

TLDR Web Dev

CISCO ACQUIRES SPLUNK

Cisco has acquired Splunk, a monitoring and analysis SaaS.

splunk.com · 8 min