Picking the best data format depends on what kind of data you have and how you plan to use it. Owen O'Malley outlines the performance differences between formats in different use cases and offers an overview of the advantages and disadvantages of each to help you improve the performance of your applications.

Death Star security describes a system that relies entirely on an outermost security layer and fails catastrophically when breached. David Strauss explores security methods strong enough to cross the public Internet, flexible enough to allow new services without altering existing systems, and robust enough to avoid single points of failure.

Is your AngularJS application becoming too difficult to maintain? Corinna Cohn explains how to take an overburdened application and make it maintainable by separating concerns of retrieving models, creating components, and isolating business logic. You will learn techniques for making your own code cleaner and more maintainable by writing small, testable modules instead of tangled monoliths.