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Making ‘npm install’ Safe

Kate Sills talks about some of the security issues using NPM packages, the EventStream incident that created a security breach in a package, and Realms and SES (Secure ECMAScript) as possible solutions to NPM package security vulnerabilities. Read more

Trains, Hotels, and Async

Dean Tribble presented a solution to the train-hotel problem at the Stanford Blockchain Conference. The train-hotel problem comes from Andrew Miller and demonstrates a difficulty with cross-shard communication. In the problem, we want to get a train ticket AND a hotel reservation - if we don’t get both, we want neither. Read more