black-hat-rust VS starter-workflows

Bonuses: If you purchase Cloudflare for Speed and Security before November 4, 2023, you'll get my bestseller, Black Hat Rust, for free! Yes, you read it right, two books for less than the price of one!

Hey HN,

I'm so excited to finally share with you what I've been working on recently.

One month ago I asked my audience what they wanted to learn about Websites, APIs and Servers security [0].

From the feedback, I've identified a few recurring pain points that I've started to address (and many more) in this new book.

From theory to practice, you will learn how low-level network and security protocols work. How to configure Cloudflare to secure and scale your web applications. How to create serverless applications and which database to chose with serverless functions. How to optimize your caching policies. How to distribute videos globally. And a lot of other things, all of that while significantly reducing your cloud bill.

Today, the book is far from ready, but I still wanted to release it as "Early Access". First, to enable you to start learning today and, secondly, to garner feedback and refine the book's content.

Between writing, editing, and technical reviewing, it can take some time to complete a book. That's why I release my books before they are fully completed - so you can commence learning before the book is 100% ready, provide feedback, and help shape the content. Rest assured, all future updates are free of charge.

The final publication date is set for mid-January 2024.

Bonuses: If you purchase Cloudflare for Speed and Security before November 4, 2023, you'll get my bestseller, Black Hat Rust [1], for free! Yes, you read it right, two books for less than the price of one!

Furthermore, all early-access supporters will receive the checklist I use to quickly set up a new domain on Cloudflare, ensuring the right balance between security, performance, and user experience.

Lastly, the price is likely to increase once the book transitions out of Early Access, so don't postpone getting your copy.

Sylvain

[0] https://kerkour.com/what-do-you-want-to-learn-about-web-and-...

[1] https://kerkour.com/black-hat-rust

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So far it worked really well.

Black Hat Rust

You mean like this? https://kerkour.com/black-hat-rust

As usual, you can find the code on GitHub: github.com/skerkour/black-hat-rust (please don't forget to star the repo 🙏).

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GitHub Actions is a modern CI/CD tool integrated natively on GitHub. Itenables the rapid automation of build, test, deployment, and other custom workflows on GitHub with no need for external tools.

GitHub Actions is GitHub's CI/CD solution. You can use it to run automated tasks each time you change your code. Although the platform lacks a built-in Kubernetes integration, third-party plugins such as Azure's Deploy to Kubernetes Cluster action can automate deployments and manage different rollout strategies.

GitHub Actions is a feature-rich CI/CD platform embedded within GitHub, enabling developers to automate, customize, and execute software development workflows directly in their repositories. An Action inside GitHub Actions is a discrete unit of automation that performs a specific task within a workflow. All the Actions are reusable, and there are many to choose from. You can even create your own reusable ones.

actions/starter-workflows

The real power of using PHP code-quality tools is when it’s added to your continuous integration process, which means it automatically checks the code every time someone makes a push or pull request to your project repo. In this section, we'll be looking at how to do just that. GitHub actions is available for free so we'll use it for demo purposes. Note that there are some limits to private repos, so set your test repo to public if you can.

You can even automate the running of this script — hence the directory name automation — to happen every time the data changes, using GitHub Actions.

# Based on https://github.com/actions/starter-workflows/blob/main/ci/node.js.yml name: CI on: pull_request: branches: - main jobs: ci: runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - uses: actions/checkout@v2 - uses: actions/setup-node@v2 with: node-version: lts/* cache: 'npm' - run: npm ci - run: npm run build --if-present - run: npm test

You might remember that I’ve been taking an interest in GitHub Actions for the last year or so (I even wrote a book on the subject). And at the Perl Conference in Toronto last summer I gave a talk called “GitHub Actions for Perl Development” (here are the slides and the video).

Preevy is designed to be easily run in CI/CD workflows, such as GH Actions, Circle CI and others.

I set out to add further development and contribution tools to my ez-txt2html converter. Specifically, I wanted to introduce an initial Continuous Integration workflow. For this, I used the “Python Application” workflow template in Github Actions to create a CI testing workflow that builds a Py v3.12 environments, builds the project dependencies, runs Flake8 linting and Black formatting and then subsequently runs PyTest using the test suites I’ve written previously.