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How to Prevent SQL Injection Attacks in Node.js

Although the tooling around databases has come a long way, it is still your responsibility to protect them against attacks. In this article, you’ll learn to prevent SQL injection attacks in Node.js using the mysql2 npm package. What is a SQL injection attack A SQL injection attack happens when a user injects malicious bits of SQL into your database queries. Most commonly, this happens when allowing a user to pass input to a database query without validation which can alter the original intended

Monorepos are changing how teams build software

The largest software companies in the world use monorepos. But historically, adopting a monorepo for anything other than at a Facebook or Google scale was difficult, time-consuming, and often filled with headaches. Since Turborepo , we’ve seen development teams of all sizes adopt Turborepo for and save over 200 days worth of time by remotely caching their deployments on Vercel.joined Vercelfaster builds Read more

A research agenda for assessing the economic impacts of code generation models

Lessons learned on language model safety and misuse

We describe our latest thinking in the hope of helping other AI developers address safety and misuse of deployed models.

Economic impacts research at OpenAI

Call for expressions of interest to study the economic impacts of large language models.

Database schema design 101 for relational databases

Getting started with a relational database can seem like a daunting task. Whether you’re coming from a NoSQL database or you’ve never used a database before, I’m going to talk you through designing a relational database and am hoping to answer the following questions: What is a relational database? How are relationships made in the database? What are the steps to take to ensure an efficient database? What is a relational database? A relational database is one way to store data related to each ot

BERT 101 - State Of The Art NLP Model Explained

Node.js 17.6.0 (Current)