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HTTP/2 – The Missing Summary

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HTTP/2 – The Missing Summary

We know our browsers support it, and we know AWS, Akamai, and other big players support it within their infrastructure already…but do your applications and/or on-prem infrastructure have what it takes to leverage the awesomeness that is HTTP/2?

Think about it. We went from HTTP/0.9, to HTTP/1.0, to HTTP/1.1…to a full version upgrade of HTTP/2. That alone should tell you that there are some very interesting features lurking underneath the hood. This is the missing in-depth summary that you have been missing while being overloaded with too much information reading official specs and getting lost in sensory-overload-causing diagrams. Welcome to HTTP/2 – the missing summary.

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How Does DNS Resolution Exactly Work?

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How Does DNS Resolution Exactly Work?

This may sound stupid, but at a low level, it’s often something that remains unknown to many in the IT industry — even seasoned professionals.

At the highest level, DNS is the basic protocol that maps hostnames to IP addresses. But there’s a whole lot more going on behind the scenes…

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This Mortal Coil by Emily Suvada

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This Mortal Coil by Emily Suvada

There are not many books that really “get” me. I tend to get bored easily by fiction of any type, especially if it is not very realistic. Also, the virus trope got old in the early 2000s. That being said, this book really resonated with me in a strong way, and I officially got “got.”

This Mortal Coil is a book about DNA, the brain, hacking DNA, hacking the brain, and everything in between. Being a Certified Ethical Hacker and Information Security professional, this was right down my alley. It helped that the viruses in this book were both physical and virtual, which allowed me to ignore the played-out trope and focus on how realistic the scenarios in the book actually were, and could possibly foreshadow a very real potential future.

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