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Week of December 9, 2019

Introducing Metaflow, a framework that Netflix has built from the ground up to set its data scientists up for success. (Psst, it’s also open-source!)
Concerned about how to handle protected health information? Here’s McAfee’s cheat sheet, explaining HIPAA and HITECH’s compliance requirements.
Discover the secret of effective employee engagement. Hint: It’s not big HR initiatives or sponsored group activities…
This is how you can build an empowering design culture and ensure that your designers aren’t lost in the back-and-forth between engineering teams.

Automate code reviews with Amazon CodeGuru – a machine learning service that enables you to find and fix a variety of different code issues at low, on-demand pricing.
Want to add animated GIFs to your HTML page? Check out gifshot – a versatile JavaScript library that enables you to create animated GIFs from media streams, videos, or images.

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is the underlying protocol that makes web-based SSO possible. Duo’s Senior Security Solutions Engineer Greg Seador explains how it works here.
The Open Web Application Security Project’s Top 10 Vulnerabilities List was intended to help the development community keep their products secure. In a blog post, WhiteSource explains how this list has been misinterpreted to be merely a checklist instead of a guide to coding more securely.
Looking to start your own service-based business? Here’s an in-depth guide from the author of Experiment Without Limits.

Website relaunches are awful, time-consuming affairs that usually fail to deliver the expected results. In his presentation at the Digital Summit, Pantheon’s CEO and Co-Founder, Zack Rosen, explains that there’s “a better way – the agile way.”
A fin-tech business owner shared a brief look at some of the challenges he’s facing running a small agency where all his employees work remotely.
OpenText’s VP of Strategic Development, Anthony di Bello, shares his thoughts on the impact of security regulations, like the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), and how companies are struggling to maintain compliance in a world of constant change.
Dylan Paulus offers a quick look at some of the techniques Facebook employs to bypass ad blockers.