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Charity Majors didn't touch a computer until she was in college. In fact, she was raised in a religious, fundamentalist compound in rural Idaho, homeschooled and cultivating all of her own food. She went to college to study classical performance in piano. And though she loved piano, she decided to switch keyboards, so to speak, and pursue something in computers.

Been in San Francisco since she was 19, and never wants to leave. Outside of tech, she does some hand lettering as a hobby, reads a lot - and considers serial television as the highest modern art form. She is firmly motivated by using code to get stuff done - IE she doesn't do tech for fun. And in her words, she's made a niche out of being an infrastructure engineer.

Several years ago, she was the first infrastructure hire at Parse. While supporting the mobile backend as a service before and after the Facebook acquisition, she had access toa tool where she could slice and dice her infrastructure, to gain visibility into a particular section of services and answer questions. When she left - she realized that a tool of that nature was paramount to doing her job well. So she set out to build it again, and figure out how to coin the term observability.

This is the creation story of Honeycomb.io.

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• https://www.honeycomb.io/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/charity-majors/
• https://parseplatform.org/

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Our lifeboat of the week goes to lealceldeiro for answering the question: What does the multi: true attribute of HTTP_INTERCEPTORS mean?

This week on the podcast, Eric, John, and Thomas talk a lot of PHP. We continue our discussions around what is coming in PHP 8, as well as Laravel Breeze, xDebug, and more...

Links:

• PHP 8: Weak maps
• PHP 8: Attributes
• PHP 8 Weak Maps and Practical Use Cases
• PHP RFC: Nullsafe operator
• PHP: rfc:match_expression_v2
• PHP: The Right Way
• PHP[architect] free article of the month on Podcast
• Interview with Steve McDougall - Voices of the ElePHPant
• Laravel Breeze
• Xdebug Update: October 2020 — Derick Rethans
• TryHackMe | Hacking Training

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Topics covered in this episode:

• fastapi-chameleon (and fastapi-jinja)
• Django REST API in a single file, without using DRF
• 2020 StackOverflow survey results
• A Visual Guide to Regular Expression
• Taking credit
• Raspberry Pi 400
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/207

Paul spent the weekend building a parser, cause who doesn't? He needed a Regex, found one on Stack Overflow, looked over the characters, and realized this is not the way to get folks interested or excited about code. "You come across a problem and you think to yourself, I know I'll use a regular expression. Now you have two problems." 

This sets Sara off on a tangent about CSS. What's wrong with CSS in her opinion. Well, all of it. She shares a few thoughts on how it could have been built right. 

Ben dives into the endless annoyances Bluetooth has been bringing to his life recently. When you have four people in a family sharing six mobile devices and five sets of headphones, audio signals are constantly getting piped to the wrong ears. Now his car wants to connect. When Bluetooth tells you it's forgetting a device, how come it never keeps it promise?

Our lifeboat badge of the week goes to Zero Piraeus for answering the question: Why must dictionary keys be immutable? He provided his answer in the form an elegant short essay, and it's definitely worth checking out.

During Donald Trump’s presidency, tech products became explicitly political. Operatives from both sides picked apart their algorithms and features, examining how they shaped society’s beliefs. And the companies, meanwhile, made choices about what parts of the administration they’d work with. Hunter Walk, who spent nearly a decade at Google and is now a partner at Homebrew, has watched the evolutions firsthand. He joins the Big Technology Podcast to discuss tech’s impact on politics and where it goes next under a Joe Biden presidency. 

In this episode, hosts Nic Fillingham and Natalia Godyla speak with Sharon Xia, a principal program manager for cloud and AI at Microsoft, about the role machine learning plays in security. They discuss four major themes, outlined in the Microsoft Digital Defense Report, including how to prepare your industry for attacks on machine learning systems, preventing attack fatigue, democratizing machine learning and leveraging anomaly detection for post-breach detection. 

Then they speak to Emily Hacker, a threat intelligence analyst at Microsoft, about her path from professional writing to helping find and stop attacks.

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

• How to prepare for attacks on machine learning systems 
• The dangers of a model poisoning attack 
• Why it’s important to democratize machine learning 
• How a humanities background helps when tracking threats 
• The latest methods attackers are using for social engineering 

Some Questions We Ask:

• Why are most organizations not prepared for ML attacks? 
• How do you assess the trustworthiness of an ML system? 
• How can machine learning reduce alert fatigue? 
• What kind of patterns are analysts seeing in email threats? 
• Why is business email compromise treated differently than other threats?  

Resources 

Microsoft Digital Defense Report, September 2020

Sharon’s LinkedIn

Emily’s LinkedIn

Nic’s LinkedIn

Natalia’s LinkedIn

Microsoft Security Blog

Related:

Listen to: Afternoon Cyber Tea with Ann Johnson

Listen to: Security Unlocked: CISO Series with Bret Arsenault 

Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at microsoft.com/podcasts

Security Unlocked is produced by Microsoft and distributed as part of The CyberWire Network. 

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