Arc Notes Weekly #2: OAuth

This week has been quite exciting; we launched our First Arc Note post with Simon Willison discussing Datasette and topics around SQLite, Python, and WebAssembly. Check it out here.

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Enjoy this week's notable articles.

Mahdi.

The end of Big Data

Exploring Architectural Concepts Building a Card Game

Interesting architechture of card game system discussing trade offs. Golang, React and websockets. 

Developing our automated framework

Learnings from 5 years of tech startup code audits - Ken Kantzer’s Blog

Great post takeaway from doing start up software audits. As someone who used to do that earlier in my career takeaways resonate with me. 

A Kernel Hacker Meets Fuchsia OS

Fly Machines: an API for fast-booting VMs

Firecracker from AWS is really gaining traction in the last few years as the faster way to get a VM up and running.

The Unfavourite

💡 The Unfavourite - this section which hopefully won't make an appearance every week, will usually be something that was a particularly low point in tech that impacts us all. If you see something worthy of the unfavourite, tweet at @arcnotes

npm security update: Attack campaign using stolen OAuth tokens | The GitHub Blog

Looks like we are still feeling aftershocks on the Github OAuth breach. Github team is doing a great job of transparency and mitigating further leaks.