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Inside the Forward Deployed Engineer Role: What They Do, Expect, and Must Know - The forward deployed engineer is suddenly tech's hottest role. What FDEs actually do, what is expected of them, and the technical, product and human skills the job demands, from a practitioner who does forward-deployed AI work. …
Laravel Security in Times of AI Code Generation - AI assistants write fluent Laravel code that hides the security mistakes the framework prevents. How AI code generation changes the risk picture, a review workflow for what the assistant hands you, and how it connects to the book You Are… …
Preventing the OWASP Top 10 in Laravel - A walk through the OWASP Top 10 mapped to concrete Laravel practice: where the framework protects you by default, and where one line of code opens the door again. …
Securing Authentication and Authorization in Laravel - Authentication tells you who a user is; authorization decides what they may do. A practical guide to Sanctum, passwords, throttling, and using Gates and Policies to close broken access control. …
A Laravel Security Checklist for Production - The pre-deployment security checklist I work through before signing off on a Laravel application: environment, HTTPS, auth, database, validation, uploads, dependencies and logging. …
Seven reasons why Zareef is bad at technology? - I have been working with technology for more than two decades. I have programmed in more languages than I can now remember, worked with servers, databases, DevOps, cloud platforms and artificial intelligence, and written books about software architecture. Despite all… …
What Zareef do when he is not doing programming? - This is the mukhda of very famous song Ek Pyar Ka Nagma hai played by Zareef Ahmed on Keyboard. This is one of the things that Zareef do when he is not working on the problems of computer science. …
Ollama for Teams: Local AI Deployment Guide - Ollama is how most engineers first run an open model: one install, one pull, and a model is answering on your laptop. My Ollama guide covers that single-machine story. This guide is the next chapter: taking the same tool your… …
Private AI Architecture Checklist - When I review a private AI deployment, planned or already running, I walk the same list every time. It exists because every item on it has bitten a real team somewhere: the endpoint that was "temporarily" internet-reachable, the model nobody… …
How to Run LLMs Inside Your Company Network - Running an open model on your own laptop takes fifteen minutes; my Ollama guide covers that. Running LLMs for a whole company is a different job: shared hardware, concurrent users, access control, and a service your colleagues depend on. That… …
Security Risks of AI Coding Tools - I use AI coding tools every day, I help teams adopt them, and I wrote a book about staying safe while doing it. So let me say this clearly at the start: the security risks of these tools are real,… …
On-Premise AI vs Cloud AI: Which Should Your Company Choose? - Every company adopting generative AI eventually faces the same question, usually sooner than it expected: should we call a cloud AI API, or run the models ourselves? I have sat on both sides of this decision, first for my own… …
How to Run AI Models Locally and in the Cloud with Ollama - Run large language models on your own machine with Ollama — and offload the big ones to the cloud — with install steps, the local API, and Ollama Cloud. …
How to Set Up the OpenAI Codex CLI - Install and sign in to the OpenAI Codex CLI, the terminal coding agent — with notes on approval modes and staying in control. …
How to Set Up GitHub Copilot - Get GitHub Copilot running in VS Code and JetBrains — prerequisites, sign-in, and how to use inline suggestions and chat. …
How to Set Up Claude Code - A step-by-step guide to installing and signing in to Claude Code, Anthropic's agentic coding tool for the terminal. …
17 Equations That Transformed the World and Remain Important for Machine Learning and AI - Mathematician Ian Stewart compiled this list of seventeen equations in his book In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World. Stewart highlights how each equation, from Pythagoras's theorem to the Black-Scholes equation, has significantly impacted human history… …
Tools to manage popular database systems - There are several tools available for interacting with Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS). These tools can help you manage, query, and analyze data stored in your databases. Here's a list of some popular tools for different RDBMS: MySQL:MySQL Workbench: An… …
Roadmap to be an expert in SQL - Learning SQL is important for several reasons, particularly for professionals working with data or in the technology industry. Here are some key reasons why learning SQL is beneficial: Data-driven decision-making: Organizations across various industries rely heavily on data to make… …
What are basic things in SQL, that you should know? - SQL (Structured Query Language) is a domain-specific language used for managing relational databases and performing various operations on the data stored in them. Here are some basic concepts and operations that you should know when getting started with SQL: SQL… …
7 Laravel Features to Enhance the Security of Your Application - A walkthrough of seven built-in Laravel security features and how to use them well to harden a web application. …
Book Review : Mastering Ansible (Jesse Keating) by Zareef Ahmed - Book Review : Mastering Ansible (Jesse Keating) by Zareef Ahmed. …
Book Review : Clean Code (Robert C. Martin) by Zareef Ahmed - Book Review by Zareef Ahmed of Book Clean Code (Robert C. Martin) …
What is the use of dynamic inventory in Ansible? - Here we are discussing the use case of dynamic inventory in Ansible. …
AWS : How to connect to Windows Instance by Zareef Ahmed - In this short video, I have created and connected to a windows instance at Amazon Web Service (AWS) …
Book Review : Continuous Delivery with Docker and Jenkins By Zareef Ahmed - Book Review by Zareef Ahmed for the book Continuous Delivery with Docker and Jenkins. …
Book Review : Socket.IO Cookbook (Tyson Cadenhead) by Zareef Ahmed - Review of Socket.IO Cookbook by Zareef Ahmed. …
7 things every web developer should know about Linux Administration By Zareef Ahmed - 7 things every web developer should know about Linux Administration By Zareef Ahmed Web programming is not only about how you develop your applications, ... …
Github : How to do forking from a repository? | Zareef Ahmed - In this short video, I am going to show you, how you can create a fork from a github respository Zareef Ahmed (https://www.zareef.com) …
7 Things you need to know to implement better DevOps | Zareef Ahmed - In this video, I am talking about seven things which you need to know to implement a better devops culture in your company. It is based on the article I wrote on ... …
Things you should know about file upload handling in PHP - The fundamentals of safe file uploads: validate the real type and size, never trust the filename, store outside the web root, and prevent execution, mapped to Laravel's file validation. …
How to be a good wordpress programmer? | Zareef Ahmed - How to be good wordpress programmer by Zareef Ahmed In this video, I am enlisting things which you should know if you want to be a good wordpress ... …
Day 2 : RDS Service by Amazon Web Service (AWS) - In this second video, we are talking about RDS. This is live recording of session. …
Vagrant : How to create a VM with custom public network IP address using Virtualbox? | Zareef Ahmed - In this video, I am going to show, how you can create a VM using vagrant with custom public ip address. We are using Virtualbox as our provider. …
Git : How to use git to create a local backup restoration plan? - In this video, I am going to show you about the git feature using which you can use it as backup restoration plan. …
Day 3 : Walk-through of EC2 on AWS - In this session, I have done a walk-through of EC2. …
29 new things of AWS at AWS Re:Invent 2018 - 1. New ARM-based instances in A1 category. It supports upto 100 GBs of network bandwidth. 2. Now Linux VMs can be hibernated, so next time you wake them up, it will be quick to start your work. 3. Now… …
Google Cloud Load balancer & Autoscaling in ACTION!! (Udemy link below with discount code!) - https://www.udemy.com/google-cloud-for-techs/?couponCode=LEARNGOOGLE Happy cloud computing! …
Google BigQuery introduction by Jordan Tigani - BigQuery engineer Jordan Tigani gives a detailed introduction to Google BigQuery. Music recommendation demo from Alexandre Passant: http://apassant.net/2014/07/11/music-recommendations-300m-data-points-sql/ Recorded on March 11th, 2015 in Stockholm, Sweden. …
Google Cloud Endpoints: serving your API to the world (Google Cloud Next ’17) - Learn about Google Cloud Endpoints and how it can make your application available to anyone in the world, all while keeping your servers protected, your data secure, and your clients happy. Missed the conference? Watch all the talks here: https://goo.gl/c1Vs3h… …