Programming Stuff ⁽¹⁰⁾

The most common use of a class in Python is acting as a data container. Throughout the development of our backend libraries at Narrative Science, we’ve seen several generations of code that attempts to make modeling this data easy.

Finding a simple to use abstraction for these type of classes allows us to focus less on writing mundane classes and more on our business logic.

In this post we will outline the evolution of this code and the pros and drawbacks of each approach.

At Narrative Science we believe in giving our engineers the freedom to innovate. We do this through an annual 3-day hackathon and quarterly hack days. In addition, we have an Incubation Team that works on prototyping ideas not otherwise found on our roadmap. 

I have this hobby where I basically take things that I spend a lot of time with and use my coding skills to try to automate things as much as I can, particularly in the realm of the video games I play.

Lately I've been reading and hearing a lot about Chat Ops. It's a practice started by Github which uses a chat service like Hipchat or Slack with a bot user to provide feedback and insights into their infrastructure.

This is not a comprehensive guide; but should get you started and prevent you from getting pwned immediately.

Following these small steps will make you a much harder target to compromise, and are probably not worth most hackers time.

There are a lot of automated attacks going around and hitting known server cluster IP ranges looking for low hanging fruit and vulnerable servers they can exploit.